Griffin Claw Brewing Company Flying Buffalo Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout: German Chocolate Cake

Flying Buffalo Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout: German Chocolate Cake

 

Griffin Claw Brewing Company in Birmingham, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Rotating Out of Production
Score
7.66
ABV: 12.0% IBU: 55 Ticks: 9
How does one make a German Chocolate Cake? First you brew a big Russian Imperial Stout and age it for 9 months in bourbon barrels. That gives you a solid base to add the special ingredients, rich German chocolate, Tahitian vanilla, toasted coconut, and lactose milk sugar. The result is a rich, liquid cake of German style with boozy vanilla notes up front, profound chocolate throughout and a decadent sweet cessation to devour in bliss.
 

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7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Can at home, 14th May 23. Pours black, rich. Aroma is rich, chocolate, barrel, sweet. Taste is decadent, smooth, chocolate, complex sweet. Nice one

Tried from Can on 30 Jul 2023 at 15:27


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Blik gedeeld door Keukeman, gedronken met Benzai en Tomhendriksen. Diep donkerbruin bier. Aroma van bourbon. De smaak is vol van bourbon en vanille. De vanille smaak blijft lang hangen.

Tried on 24 Mar 2023 at 22:43


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Blik gedeeld door Keukeman, geprobeerd met Benzai en Inoven. Het is een diep donkerbruin bier met een aroma van chocolade en kokos.

Tried on 24 Mar 2023 at 21:50


6.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Can at home. Black color, no head. Smell and taste malts lightly, huge coconut, some chocolate, bit overall not really my thing no.

Tried on 24 Mar 2023 at 21:36


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can at home. Pours black, nose is vanilla, coconut, chocolate, caramel, taste is similar, sweet, some bitterness.

Tried from Can on 02 Mar 2023 at 20:43



8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Can on 712 heading South, thanks to the Wingman, 26/02/23. Extremely dark mahogany brown with a khaki cap that dissipates edgewards. Nose is chocolate cake, bourbon, dark malts, toffee fudge, molasses. Taste comprises chocolate pot, mellow roast, bourbon, vanilla, toffee fudge, spice, brown sugar melt. Full bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a rising kiss of alcohol. Solid well balanced BA impy stout.

Tried from Can on 26 Feb 2023 at 16:34



8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8.5

Can from Livonia Liquor. Pours a deep brown with a finger of beige foam that dissipates. Big bourbon focused nose with coconut, vanilla and dark chocolate aromas. More of the same on the palate with vanilla and oak and lingering coconut. Warming bourbon and oak on the finish with coconut and chocolate cake notes that linger. Flying Buffalo quality is back after a 4-5 year fall off. Really solid.

Tried from Can from Livonia Liquor & Fine Wine on 19 Nov 2022 at 03:56