Vanilla Bean Truth
(has 3 batches)
Tree House Brewing Company in Charlton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
8.41
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Vanilla Bean Truth is an Imperial Stout aged for 22 months in select wheated bourbon barrels and then conditioned upon heaps of grade A, purposefully selected vanilla beans.
It pours a viscous black color in the glass with a mocha-colored head. When poured cold, the flavor profile leads with chocolate wafer cookies, bourbon-vanilla heat, and rich dark chocolate. As it warms, the true complexity emerges. We taste and smell bourbon chocolate chip cookie dough, bourbon vanilla ice cream, tootsie rolls, and smooth chocolate syrup.
The vanilla addition serves to soften the bourbon and chocolate character of the base beer making the whole presentation more confectionary and decadent like chocolate vanilla syrup.
It pours a viscous black color in the glass with a mocha-colored head. When poured cold, the flavor profile leads with chocolate wafer cookies, bourbon-vanilla heat, and rich dark chocolate. As it warms, the true complexity emerges. We taste and smell bourbon chocolate chip cookie dough, bourbon vanilla ice cream, tootsie rolls, and smooth chocolate syrup.
The vanilla addition serves to soften the bourbon and chocolate character of the base beer making the whole presentation more confectionary and decadent like chocolate vanilla syrup.
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8.6/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 8
Pours a thick, jet black. No foam. Scent is that typical greatness, chocolate sauce, relatively mild on vanilla (I expected way more personally). Taste is full, roasty, sweet, mild vanilla. the base is all the greatness you'd hope to get, some alcohol heath (bourbon barrels, seemingly?) , thick chocolaty maltyness; thick body, low carbo. Ends quite boozy. Sweet, unapolegetically so, but not in a negative way (to me) . Quite damn nice, but not nearly as much of vanilla as I expected. perhaps since this has 2,5 years on it ? Still, amazing base, everything I personally hope to get in a stout.
Tried
on 15 Jun 2026
at 19:06
8.6/10
SbS^16 vanilla comes across a bit artificial ash’s cloying. Smooths as it warms. Softer on the palate
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Apr 2025
at 17:41
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Rated at Ryyppyliiteri. Smooth, slightly roasty and sweetish with some vanilla beans, syrup, oak and hints of fish sauce. Soft and quite mellow. Okay.
Tried
on 07 Jul 2024
at 21:01
8/10
Creamy, sweet, boozy, vanilla and chocolate, some coffee. Smooth, very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jul 2024
at 21:11
8.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Bottle shared at Pink Flamingo tasting. Black, almost no head. Massive vanilla, molasses, toffee, milk chocolate, boozy, blackberries. Very sweet, medium bitter. Thick sugary body. Massive, like old school BA Dark Lord.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2024
at 21:02
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Shared at Palace Hall, Malmö March 2024 tasting (23/03/2024) - dark sweet roasted malty with lots of opulent chocolate, caramel and toffee like sticky malty sweetness, full bodied, bourbon and vanilla accents into the dark malty finish. Gorgeous stuff.
Tried
on 06 Apr 2024
at 12:34
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
2023 500mL white wax bottle drunk 2/10/24. Thanks to Chalumeaux. Viscous motor oil. No head. Clear. Spicy, rich, dense vanilla, gentle bourbon and rich chocolate maltiness with light caramel and no booze. Bit of banana amyl in there? Very dense but nothing aggressive at all. Very aromatic. Thick, rich, fluffy, syrupy. Sweet but drying out with spicy vanilla, bakers chocolate and bourbon spice. So frickin mellow. Say what you will about TH, but this is a properly aged Imperial Stout that tastes perfect three months after bottling, unlike most breweries where the beer comes out hot as hell and needs at least six months more aging in the bottle. Lotta vanilla, lotta spice, lotta malt, nicely dry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2024
at 21:04
9/10
Winter 2023 aroma is chocolate, vanilla, bourbon. Taste is nice, viscous, thick. This is so good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2024
at 16:18
9/10
Taster from Bottle, at a share in Oslo. Almost Black with little head. Roasted malts, oak, Chocolate, vanilla, thick, sweetness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jan 2023
at 21:14
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8
TH Truth Vanilla Bean
@Johnny's Tree House Tasting. Opaque pitch black color, no head. Aroma is malts, soy sauce notes again, vanilla. Flavor is similar, vanilla is more clear. Quite nice. Thick, rich flavor and mouthfeel. 8-8-8-9-8
@Johnny's Tree House Tasting. Opaque pitch black color, no head. Aroma is malts, soy sauce notes again, vanilla. Flavor is similar, vanilla is more clear. Quite nice. Thick, rich flavor and mouthfeel. 8-8-8-9-8
Tried
on 04 Jan 2023
at 18:03