Fayston Maple - Coffee
Lawson's Finest Liquids in Waitsfield, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
‘Vermontian’ imperial stout flavoured with coffee, cinnamon and maple syrup and aged in calvados barrels; thanks tderoeck for sharing. Pale yellow-beige, tiny-bubbled, opening head on a black beer with thin burgundy edges. Aroma of coffee indeed (espresso powder, coffee filters) but embedded in impressions of soy sauce, bitter chocolate, calvados or even whisky, fudge, cinnamon, less maple syrup, toffee, bayleaf, raisin, beef stock cube, glue. Sweet, dense onset, candied dates and fig compote, old raisins, very soft carb, full oily mouthfeel; light beef stock-like umami aspects edge a walnutty, toffeeish malt bittersweetness with chocolatey core, developing a roasted bitter tail which is reinforced by the coffee. Spicy finish, peppery hops and cinnamon noticeable, with the spiciness highlighted by whisky-like alcohol (more than apple brandy which was actually involved); long, warming, spicy, ‘wintery’ finish, but not too astringent. Complex, enough of the promised coffee and cinnamon though perhaps less maple syrup than expected; in any case a very classically styled, almost old school-ish American style flavoured ‘impy’.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
10/IX/22 - 75cl bottle @ Belgian Beer Geek Gathering (Gent), BB: n/a (2022-1149) Thanks to ElManana+1 for sharing the bottle!
Clear dark brown to black beer, small creamy beige head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: lots of coffee, very roasted, caramel malts. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet, sugary, alcohol, bitter, good dark roast, malty, coffee. Aftertaste: sugary, caramel, alcohol, lots of coffee, malty, sugary, some chocolate, decent stuff!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
66cl bottle at Belgian Beergeeks/Brewver summer tasting at Tim's house. Thanks Bjorn.
Brune foncée sur le noire, finement doré huileux au verre, col fin moka.
Arôme sur un bouquet marqué en malts -c'est profond et Lawson's reste dans ce caractère tr§s américain des gros stouts US. Chocolat avec une belle note de grillé et café. Le côté érable est subtile et apporte une touche un peu organique avec une pointe de fruits noirs en rétro-nasal.
Palais est sur le malté assez profond, c'est épais avec une douceur maltée chocolat assez marquée. BA goodness, caramel avec une bonne note d'érable en retrait. Le caractère café perce en retrait et accompagne bien la base bien maltée.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
A deep dark stout with a thin mocha head. In aroma, nice chocolate malt with light maple notes, light coffee grind, musty character, nice and smooth. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity chocolate malt with loads of vanilla, coffee crisp, oily mouth feel, alcohol warmth, very nice and complex. On tap at Good Measure Brewing.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Tap into a snifter showing translucent coffee with sparse latte colored foam. The nose shows a lot of roasted coffee notes. The palate is medium bodied and smoothly carbonated. Lightly sweet with flavors of roasted coffee and a light coffee tartness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours deep brown into a snifter. Mocha head with good retention recedes leaving spot lacing. Coffee and maple aromas. Medium bodied with sweet maple and hot chocolate upfront turning to mocha in the sweet maple lasting finish
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle shared during the Sander stag. Pours deep oily black with a dense, frothy beige head. Big coffee about, some cocoa notes, understated toast, dark berries. Medium sweet flavour with chewy chocolate character, meaty coffee, mellow earthy bitterness. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Oily. Lightly warming to finish, with tons more oily coffee, gooey chocolate, rich dark fruits, some fig. Awesome stuff. Really rich but not over the top.