Bright Midnight
Burnt Mill Brewery in Badley, Suffolk, England 🏴
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.16
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Bright Midnight has had 18 months sitting in Cognac casks followed by a further year of aging. This time has given us a very special beer, aromas of spiced apple lead the way to a boozy fruit cake character with essences of oaky vanilla, smokey molasses and hints of chocolate. A truly sumptuous barrel aged imperial stout.
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8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can at home. Black colour with a brown head. Malty chocolate sweet and oak brandy. Rich full body.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Feb 2025
at 21:51
8/10
Tried
from Can
on 08 Apr 2024
at 21:48
8/10
Tried
on 11 Feb 2024
at 18:08
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Can sample at a tasting at a Yoav's place. Black. Nail polish remover, apples, wood, sweetish, sourish note.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Sep 2023
at 16:41
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
28/7/2023. Keg at the 33rd Ipswich Beer and Cider Festival. Pours black with a small tan coloured head. Aroma is very boozy, liquorice, toffee, wood, roasted malt, coffee, biscuit, molasses. Medium sweetness, moderate roasted bitterness. Medium to full body, creamy, very soft carbonation. Very good.
Tried
on 31 Jul 2023
at 20:27
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
440ml can. Pitch black with a thin tan head. Aroma is heavily dominated by cognac, oak, vanilla. Taste too is massive cognac, almost overwhelmingly so, there's oak, vanilla some chocolate, dried and dark fruits. Very strong and boozy. It's tasty but somewhat unbalanced. Just too much cognac/barrel.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jul 2023
at 22:49
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 3.5
16th March 2023
Can. Opaque dark brown beer, small tan head. Smooth palate, mild dry, reasonable fine carbonation. A touch of chocolate dark malts but this is a salty old barrel of an Impy, really quite savoury and lacking any sweetness for me. Touch of wet wood and then some fairly odd tasting cognac, like someone has moonshined some up. Spicy finish. Not for me, awkward and weird and quite hard to drink.
Can. Opaque dark brown beer, small tan head. Smooth palate, mild dry, reasonable fine carbonation. A touch of chocolate dark malts but this is a salty old barrel of an Impy, really quite savoury and lacking any sweetness for me. Touch of wet wood and then some fairly odd tasting cognac, like someone has moonshined some up. Spicy finish. Not for me, awkward and weird and quite hard to drink.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Mar 2023
at 23:46
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can from Eltham Wines. Black pour with a tan head. Heavy Cognac nose, whiff of dark chocolate, fruit cake, molasses, dark plums. Taste is dark chocolate, coffee Matchmakers(are they still around🤔?) , oak, Cognac, spiced apple, fruitcake, molasses. Deeply warming vinous finish. Exquisite.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Feb 2023
at 21:49
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can shared in London - cheers to Fergus. Pours black-brown with a creamy, beige head. Medium sweet flavour with lots of ash, torched wood, tangy dark malts, cocoa, old barrel, leathery berries, raisins. Full bodied with fine to average carbonation. Lightly warming finish, further ashy roast, baking cocoa, earth. Pretty solid.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Feb 2023
at 23:23
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can shared at Columbus tasting . 2023-02-02. From hotm. A dark black brown coloured pour with a halo of kid tan head. Aroma is harsh , solvent green apple, marker pen, green oak, solvent. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, raw oak, vajilla, brown sugars, solvent green apple, vanilla, boozy. Raw green oak. Super harsh.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Feb 2023
at 21:16