Half Acre Beer Company Benthic - Vanilla

Benthic - Vanilla

 

Half Acre Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Imperial Series
Score
7.78
ABV: 13.5% IBU: - Ticks: 6
Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout with Coconut. 2X Hand-toasted coconut and Madagascar vanilla beans. Blend of Heaven Hill, Willet, Weller, and EH Taylor barrels.
 

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8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

On tap at the brewery. Aroma is fairly vanilla forward with lighter notes of coconut. Quite a bit of dark chocolate, caramel and toffee. Lighter molasses notes. Light bourbon and alcohol notes with hints of oak. Pours jet black with a dark mocha head that recedes steadily to the edges where it lingers. Flavor is super sweet with lots of caramel, toffee and loud of chocolate in the finish. Light molasses and roast notes. Medium bitterness with medium light alcohol notes. Lots of vanilla with lighter coconut notes. Medium light bourbon and faint oak notes. Mouthfeel is full bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and medium low alcohol warmth. Overall, a fun adjunct stout. Really accentuates the vanilla and barrel notes. Fairly sweet, but it doesn't linger too long as the barrel and alcohol takes over.

Tried from Draft on 16 Nov 2024 at 18:46


8

0,3 litre Can, from a trade, at home. Black with brown head. Roasted Malts, coffee, Chocolate, vanilla, coconut, sweetness, bourbon.

Tried from Can on 07 Jun 2024 at 21:11


9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Canned, 355 ml shared with Max, Miro B and kajser27. 2022. Black with brownish head. Chocolate, coconut, lots of vanilla, sweet with nice roasty bitterness in the finish. Very smooth. Medium+ bodied.

Tried from Can on 18 Feb 2024 at 10:33


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

12oz can pours out black topped with a small tan head. Nose is great chocolate vanilla toasted coconut. Taste is more of the nice sweet chocolate roast malts rich vanilla coconut.

Tried from Can on 15 Dec 2022 at 16:26


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

12oz can at share. Black pour with a thin beige head. Just like the other Benthic variants except with a heaping helping of vanilla. Luscious chocolate, coconut and vanilla all wrapped up in a boozy blanket. Delicious.

Tried from Can on 04 Dec 2022 at 20:32


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5

2019 can shared. Thanks Jon! Pours a thick, pitch black with a small brown head that dissipates. Big vanilla focused nose with milk chocolate, prune and brownie aromas. More dark chocolate on the palate some coffee, loads more vanilla and nice prune and cacao nib on the backend. Balanced and leans kind of dry on the finish with the vanilla still out in front. Not a pastry sugar stout bomb by any means. Great balance with a chewy fudgey body.

Tried from Can on 14 Sep 2020 at 01:56