Tree House Brewing Company Vanilla Bean Truth

Vanilla Bean Truth

 

Tree House Brewing Company in Charlton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular
Score
8.38
ABV: 13.5% IBU: - Ticks: 13
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.
 

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8.2
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

Creamy, sweet, boozy, vanilla and chocolate, some coffee. Smooth, very nice.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Jul 2024 at 21:11


8.4
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
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
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

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

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
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

Tried on 04 Jan 2023 at 18:03


9

Tried from Bottle on 06 Jan 2021 at 16:13


9.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

12 oz. bottle shared by Chalumeaux, thanks! Aroma is oak,strong vanilla, roast. Flavor is sooooo smooth with all the elements working together in harmony. Vanilla, chocolate, oak, mild bourbon and the ABV is totally hidden. A near perfect Imperial stout! Pretty much the most perfect beer I’ve had in a long time.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Nov 2020 at 23:26