Incantations
Burlington Beer Company in Williston, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.66
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After aging in Rye Whiskey barrels, the beer emerges with beautifully layered notes of chocolate-covered raisins, white pepper, mellow oak, toffee, and molten chocolate lava cake. The specialty malts weave a deep, roasted warmth throughout, while the barrel amplifies the rye's spicy backbone with a touch of heat and sophistication.
Incantations 2023 is a ritual of grain, fire, and time—a brew that honors the bold spirit of rye while embracing the dark and the decadent. Drink deeply… the spell has been cast.
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Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9
500ml bottle, 2023 vintage. Chocolate aroma with notes of candy sugar, dark fruit, toffee, peppery spice, oak, vanilla and whiskey. Pours deep brown with a thin mocha brown head that has little retention and a ring of lacing. Starts with rich chocolate, candy sugar, peppery spice and oak flavors as well as having a rich, full body and decadently smooth mouthfeel. Finishes impeccably smooth with dark fruit, toffee, vanilla and whiskey flavors. Fantastically rich and flavorful. Excellent brew!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
500 ml bottle from Tavour. 2023 vintage. 10.5% ABV. Sweet roasted malt aroma hints at milk chocolate and oak. Flavor is sweet roasted malt, warming alcohol, oak, earthy rye grain and rich chocolate. Smooth and indulgent. Flavor becomes more developed as the brew warms.
Boutip (9769) reviewed Incantations from Burlington Beer Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle: Poured a pitch-black color stout with a dark brown foamy head with some retention and some light lacing notes. Aroma of black chocolate notes with some vanilla and whiskey notes. Taste is also a mix of black chocolate notes with some vanilla and whiskey notes with a light woody finish. Body is about average with good carbonation with some alcohol notes that are discernible. Enjoyable BA stout but lacking a fuller body.
GRM (7524) reviewed Incantations from Burlington Beer Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Brown bottle, 500 ml, 2022 vintage, from, with and at Philippe Boutin (merci!), savoured on 4 August 2023; nose: malt, coffee, whisky, aniseed, alcohol; mouth: malt, coffee, whisky, aniseed, alcohol, light peat, finale in rye with presence of chocolate, full-bodied, average carbonation, lightly sweet, alcoholic texture; in short: fine FRANÇAIS
Bouteille brune, 500 ml, millésime 2022, de, avec et chez Philippe Boutin (merci!), savourée le 4 août 2023; nez : malt, café, whisky, anis, alcool; bouche : malt, café, whisky, anis, alcool, léger tourbe, finale en rye avec présence de chocolat, corsée, carbonatation moyenne, légèrement sucrée, texture alcoolique; en résumé : bien
djd07 (28882) reviewed Incantations from Burlington Beer Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
2021 Version on tap at the brewery 10.5%. Pours black with small beige head leaving sticky lacing. The aroma is chocolate, brownie batter, caramel, wood, bourbon. Slick body, dark chocolate, toffee, brownie, boozy finish, very nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can to snifter, the appearance was a dark brown color with a sly film of a little white foamy head that slid off at a moderate pace. Sliding lace.
The aroma had some light bourbon to sweet wood, sweet rye, light milk chocolate, touch of vanilla, and a little bit of earthiness at the end.
The flavor was moderately sweet with the earthiness sliding in to accompany a nice balance. Aftertaste was semi-dry with an unyielding pinch of spice coming from the rye which wasn’t in the initial taste. Finish was nice and discovered the smooth and sweet side of the rye penetrating the sweet wood and bourbon spike.
The palate was medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt as projected.
Overall, pretty damn good imperial stout. Hoping RAR will come here to Vermont to brew more with BBC.