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Bottle Logic Brewing in Anaheim, California, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale - American Rotating|
Score
7.98
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Blend of English-Style Barleywine and Imperial Stout aged in Bourbon Barrels with Madagascar Vanilla • 12.7% ABV.
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9.5/10
Lots of vanilla. A tiny bit sour.
At Taplokaal Gist - Black Friday Weekend.
At Taplokaal Gist - Black Friday Weekend.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Taplokaal Gist
on 28 Nov 2025
at 17:54
9/10
Pikzwart, geen schuim
Chocolade, vanille, hopjesvla
Vanielje! Iets scherp op de alcohol
Chocolade, vanille, hopjesvla
Vanielje! Iets scherp op de alcohol
Tried
from Bottle
at
Taplokaal Gist
on 28 Nov 2025
at 17:23
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle pour at Pien Shop, pours a deep dark brown/near-black with a small tan head. Aroma is full of rich, sticky toffee malts, deep bourbon, molasses, and dark dried fruits. Flavour is very rich, with intense dark dried fruits, sticky toffee, big bourbon, and dark sugars. Very sweet but has the malt complexity to back and the great barrel notes. A bit brutal and cloying but otherwise very good.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Pien Shop & Bar
on 15 Nov 2025
at 09:16
8/10
Sweet and light toasted malty with lots of toffee and fudge and caramel like sweetness, some dark fruit shred, nice body and mouthfeel, bourbon and vanilla coalesce into the sweet warming finish. Great stuff.
Tried
on 26 Mar 2025
at 11:35
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours deep brown/black into a snifter. Mocha head with little retention recedes to pool suface. Hot licorice, vanilla and bourbon aromas. Thick with sweet chocolate fudge, hot caramel and vanilla front to back. Lasting chocolate covered cherry and bourbon ball finish.
Tried
on 23 Mar 2025
at 01:16
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Leicht alkoholischer Beginn, schwer nach Vanille, dunkles Malz, cremig. Im Mittelteil brennt der Alkohol, die Süße steigt an, minimal bitter. Unsüffig. 12/11/8/9//9
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2025
at 20:04
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
Bottle at home, last one of 2024 to end on 23456 ratings in total. Always nice to end on a 'round number'. Opaque black colored beer with a small brown colored head. Aroma is malts, bourbon, sweet chocolate notes in the background retronasal, molasses. Flavor is malts, sweet sticky malts, bourbon, vanilla, molasses heavily. Sticky texture, thick viscous oily mouthfeel as the beer coats the inside of your mouth completely, suitable relatively soft carbonation. Pretty good one to finish off 2024. On to the next year!
Tried
on 31 Dec 2024
at 22:29
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
A black beer, no head. Aroma of massiv bourbon, vanilla, sweet dark malt, liquorice, some dried fruits. Taste of creamy strong dark malt, caramel, bourbon, some coffee, full body, sticky finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2024
at 13:36
8/10
Nice, eerste fles van de avond die ik wel op ga drinken.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2024
at 19:54
8/10
More FO than IO it feels, and lots of vanilla, but tasty fun blend.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Dec 2024
at 13:12