Opiliones
Wander Beyond Brewing in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England 🏴
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.14
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We backed up a Tonka truck full of tonka beans for our latest release. Opiliones is a full bodied malty and chocolatey stout infused with fresh Brazilian tonka beans, Peruvian cacao nibs and vanilla. This fragrant and slightly spicy bean adds an unusual yet intriguing, perfumed aroma, backed up by an expected chocolate ice cream flavour derived from the malt, nibs and vanilla - and we used a relatively simple grist comprising of 5 different malts to enable the adjuncts to sing and dance.
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8/10
Chocolate, tonka, rich
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Jun 2024
at 19:09
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
(Draught at Protokoll, Berlin, 21 Apr 2023) Black colour with creamy, beige head. Malty, roasted nose with dark chocolate, coffee, vanilla and tonka beans. Malty, roasted taste with notes of black coffee, chocolate, vanilla, tonka beans, cacao and a balanced cacao bitterness in the finish. Full body, thick and oily mouthfeel. Quite sweet. Rich, powerful and really tasty. Very nice.
Tried
on 06 Sep 2023
at 20:26
7.2/10
Base beer is very good, the coffee adds a nice spice. A bit sweet but reasonable. Gollem amstelstraat
Tried
on 11 Feb 2023
at 14:51
8/10
keg at the wee vault.... dark black.. no head... rich sweet chocolate roast malts nose.. sweet Tonka.. dry chocolate Roast malts.. Light bitter dark chocolate roast malts
Tried
on 04 Feb 2023
at 19:36
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Jan 2023
at 21:41
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Keg at porty vault. Pours black, nose is chocolate, caramel, fudge, coffee, tonka spice, taste is similar, sweet, lots of cinnamon.
Tried
on 06 Sep 2022
at 15:25
6.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft. A black beer with a dark brown head. The aroma has notes of coconut, vanilla, coffee, chocolate, and roasted malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, soy sauce, dark chocolate, vanilla, coffee, and coconut, leading to a dry finish. Too much for me - but I'm sure it will have a following.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Aug 2022
at 12:04
8/10
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Jul 2022
at 12:23
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can sample at a tasting at Yoav's place. Black. Tons of tonka, chocolate, caramel, a bit of chocolate with peanut butter, sweet, bitter finish.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Jul 2022
at 16:19
8/10
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Jun 2022
at 17:13