Nilla Nest

Cellarmaker Brewing Company in Oakland, California, United States 🇺🇸

Collab with: Horus Aged Ales
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular

Score

7.26

ABV: 14.8%

IBU: -

Ticks: 3

Horus and Cellarmaker are back at it again with the release of our third round of collaboration barrel-aged Stouts. Nilla Nest was aged in Willett Rye barrels for 22 months and then conditioned on 3 pounds per barrel of vanilla beans from Tanzania, Peru and East Timor. The vanilla has layers and layers of decadent flavor ranging from Luxardo cherry to brownie batter, creme brulee to orange citrus.

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7.9

Buckeyeboy (18941) reviewed Nilla Nest from Cellarmaker Brewing Company 2 years ago

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

375ml bottle pours out black topped with a tan head. Nose is big sweet chocolate super rich vanilla cream and bourbon barrel. Taste is more of the nice sweet chocolate big vanilla forward roast malts toasted bourbon barrel.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Dec 2023 at 21:47

7.6

stevoj (18327) reviewed Nilla Nest from Cellarmaker Brewing Company 2 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

375ml bottle at share. Near black pour, flat, oily. Vanilla peaks out of the aroma just above chocolate, sweet. Taste brings an almost syrupy feel, sweet, vanilla, chocolate, deep, slick, latent booziness.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Dec 2023 at 03:51

ineedbeer (4099) reviewed Nilla Nest from Cellarmaker Brewing Company 2 years ago

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

Poured from a 12.7 oz bottle. Aroma is very vanilla forward with quite a bit of chocolate notes and hints of roast and caramel. Faint oak notes with light alcohol and bourbon notes. A bit more caramel and graham cracker as it warms. Pours jet black with a small, thin, dark mocha head that disappears immediately. No lacing and super long legs. Flavor is fairly sweet with lots of bakers chocolate and caramel with lighter notes of toffee, treacle, molasses and graham crackers. Hints of roast. Medium bitterness and medium light alcohol notes. Quite a lot of vanilla. Hints of oak and bourbon. Mouthfeel is full bodied and slick with low carbonation. Low astringency and medium alcohol warmth. Overall, a solid BA stout. The vanilla notes are really nice but strong. So much so that the bourbon notes are kind of missing. Solid malt profile with really nice chocolate notes. Maybe I'm tired of the style. Maybe there is something slightly off about this beer. I don't know, but while it's good it's not hitting on all cylinders for me.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Dec 2023 at 06:09