Fremont Brewing Company The Rusty Nail

The Rusty Nail

 

Fremont Brewing Company in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Imperial Regular
Score
8.22
ABV: 13.2% IBU: 50 Ticks: 146
The Rusty Nail begins life as The First Nail, an oatmeal stout of epic proportions with brewer’s licorice, smoked barley, and pale malt and is then aged on cinnamon bark. She becomes The Rusty Nail after spending 15 months in 12-year old bourbon barrels. The Rusty Nail pounds your palate, challenges your perception of all that you’ve known of beer, and leaves you wanting … another sip. “A fine beer may be judged by one sip, but it’s better to be thoroughly sure.” – VWP.
 

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8.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

[Vintage 2021] 4oz pour at Chuck's Greenwood. Pours black with thin tan head. Aroma has chocolate, liquorice, cinnamon, bourbon. Flavour is stupidly rich; tons of chocolate, cinnamon, bourbon, and a touch of black liquorice. Complex, rich, and very enjoyable.

Tried on 02 Oct 2024 at 01:06


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

(Bottle, thanks to Håkan) Black colour with brief, beige head. Malty, roasted, vinous nose with strong black coffee, dark chocolate, treacle, liquorice, cinnamon, bourbon, oak wood and vanilla. Malty, roasted, vinous taste with sweet espresso, dark chocolate, cinnamon, treacle, caramel, bourbon, oak wood, liquorice, cinnamon and a vinous and warming finish with a balanced cacao bitterness. Full body, quite sweet. Abit boozy, but really rich, tasty and powerful. Very nice.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Jul 2024 at 21:10


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Vintage 2020. Delicious but sweet, with deep veins of dark chocolate, molasses, and licorice leading to a heavy cinnamon middle and tons of bourbon on the finish. Great. A little goes a long way.

Tried on 11 Apr 2024 at 03:41


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

Bottle shared @ Belgian Beer Geek gathering. Thanks! Almost black colour, syrupy. Sweet, fruity with notes of coffee, roasted malts, vanilla. Boozy but enjoyable.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Dec 2023 at 08:34


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Bottle shared at RBBWG 2023. Opaque pitch black color, virtually no head. Aroma and flavor are malts, brown malts, soy sauce, very boozy tbh. Hmm alright.

Tried on 09 Dec 2023 at 18:18


8.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9

Pours black, no real head. Scent is intense, roasty, chocolate, quite intense and anjoyable. Taste is full, intense, syrupy, sweet, intense chocolate, bit boozy, bourbon, silky smoothness. Lovely, absolutely lovely. Shows zero negative signs of age.

Tried on 09 Dec 2023 at 18:12


8.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

9/XII/23 - 1Pt. 6Fl. Oz. bottle from a trade, shared @ BBGG winter 23-24, BB: n/a (2023-1151) Thanks to Aaron for the trade!

Clear dark brown beer, small creamy beige to brown head, unstable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: alcohol, good roast, quite some coffee notes, little to no oxidation noticeable. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body, creamy texture. Taste: sweet start, a bit oxidized but not too much, lots of alcohol, dark chocolate, good deep roast, some vanilla notes, a bit earthy, some tobacco leaves, caramel. Aftertaste: good roast still, quite some coffee, alcohol, caramel, boozy, some soy sauce, sugary finish with alcohol warming the throat.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Dec 2023 at 16:45


9.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

Bottle. A- Cinnamon, chocolate fudge, bourbon, rich. A- Black color, black liquid, no head. T- Cinnamon, woodsy, mild anise, bourbon, dark chocolate fudge. P- Full body, thick texture, average carbonation, rich finish. O- One of the better brews I've had in some time. Super complex and rich. Had a Mexican Hot Cocoa vibe. Really lovely stuff. Wish I would've gotten more than one as well as the Batch 3000 now. Great stuff.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Nov 2023 at 03:33


7.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle, thanks for sharing! Pours near black with an earthy brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has cinnamon and dark grains with a bit of bourbon and a hint of anise underlying. Flavor has a good amount of cinnamon and dark grains with some chocolate and bourbon supporting.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Nov 2023 at 00:59


8

Sweetish, a bit boozy. Cinnamon, coconut, chocolate, a fair amount of licorice in the finish. Smooth, fairly rich, very nice.

Tried on 27 Oct 2023 at 17:07