Moonlit Nights (Cellar Series)
Põhjala in Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia 🇪🇪
Strong Ale - American Regular|
Score
7.25
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BA Salted Caramel Strong Ale 12% vol
A rich and malty strong ale brewed with salted caramel and aged in oak barrels for 15 months.
Taste: The flavor is very rich and intense. The lush taste blends chocolate and plums with vanilla-like spiciness. While the beginning is more fruity and juicy, the aftertaste becomes more liqueur-like, with hints of nuts, raisins, and a light roastiness. The finish leaves a pleasant warmth of alcohol.
Appearance: A dark brown beer with a slight reddish tint and a smaller side beige head. Swirling the beer creates a dense lace pattern on the glass walls.
Nose: The initial aroma is lightly smoky, plummy, and reminiscent of port. The scent is unusually fruity for a dark beer—dominated by plum, with hints of raisins and vanilla notes from oak barrels. Upon further exploration, you can detect various spices and dried fruits.
A rich and malty strong ale brewed with salted caramel and aged in oak barrels for 15 months.
Taste: The flavor is very rich and intense. The lush taste blends chocolate and plums with vanilla-like spiciness. While the beginning is more fruity and juicy, the aftertaste becomes more liqueur-like, with hints of nuts, raisins, and a light roastiness. The finish leaves a pleasant warmth of alcohol.
Appearance: A dark brown beer with a slight reddish tint and a smaller side beige head. Swirling the beer creates a dense lace pattern on the glass walls.
Nose: The initial aroma is lightly smoky, plummy, and reminiscent of port. The scent is unusually fruity for a dark beer—dominated by plum, with hints of raisins and vanilla notes from oak barrels. Upon further exploration, you can detect various spices and dried fruits.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours clear chestnut, medium beige head, good lacing. Aroma is bourbon, caramel, cocoa, vanilla. Flavor is medium sweet, light plus bitter. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2026
at 04:26
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle picked up from Mr Hop webshop, Vernray Netherlands. Consumed at Frank, Studentenstadt, München Sunday 7th December 2025 after a wonderful day out with Jude and Baz. Pours black without a head, or if there was a head it didn't last long. Thickness in the mouth, taste is erring towards a stout, yeah I get the strong ale but a first I wasn't thinking along those lines, I guess the barrel ageing threw me as well. Raisins steeped in alcohol springs to mind, alongside quite a chocolate hit, also a little boozy. Very good. Score 7.4
Tried
from Bottle
from Mr. Hop (webshop)
on 07 Dec 2025
at 21:00
7.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
pours clear brown, settles brown with a light brown head.
aroma is very barley wineish, with lots of subtle nuances and notes, but still a very full bodied toasted bready malty toffee like base. the aroma is not boozy, more like velvety but not sweet and not indicating lots of added flavors. super nice aroma, super nice barley wine.
flavor is more all over the place than aroma, and is more like a quad than like a barley wine. i get wood, raisins, yeasty notes, roasted raisins (if that is a thing) dried apple with skin, muesli, extremely complex, mostly resembling a quad. fairly well balanced but with the roughness you could get from a quad - but surprisingly non-brutal, you never get to notice the 12% alc.
aroma is very barley wineish, with lots of subtle nuances and notes, but still a very full bodied toasted bready malty toffee like base. the aroma is not boozy, more like velvety but not sweet and not indicating lots of added flavors. super nice aroma, super nice barley wine.
flavor is more all over the place than aroma, and is more like a quad than like a barley wine. i get wood, raisins, yeasty notes, roasted raisins (if that is a thing) dried apple with skin, muesli, extremely complex, mostly resembling a quad. fairly well balanced but with the roughness you could get from a quad - but surprisingly non-brutal, you never get to notice the 12% alc.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Kihoskh
on 07 Oct 2025
at 21:40
7.5/10
Superficial tasting at company beer tasting. Dark brown body under a small beige head. Sweet and malty, mild roast, chocolate, dry fruit, caramel, coffee, mild oak and warming alcohol. Nice and tasty pastry stout that avoids the silliness from the extreme adjunct versions. Nice.
Tried
on 12 Aug 2025
at 13:15
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
From Alko Tammisto. Smell of oak, vanilla. Dark brown colour, light brown head. Aroma of cognac, plum, dried fruit, oak, vanilla, candy. Medium sweet, lightly spicy. Flat carbon, slick texture.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2025
at 21:01
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared, darker brown almost black beer, small head. Aroma is sweet, dark fruit, raisins, liquorice, alcohol. Taste is the same, sweet, alcohol, dark fruit, raisins, light caramel. Nice
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jul 2025
at 22:29
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Aroma has liquorice, wood, barrel, alcohol, light dried fruitness. A black beer, a head is small and beige. Taste has caramel, raisin, liquorice, barrel, light booze. Full bodied. Too rough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 May 2025
at 17:49
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
bottle at home ..mdark black ...thin tan lacing ...soft sweet fruity chocolate Roast malts nose ..soft salty ..Light malts ..dry bitter chocolate
Tried
on 26 Apr 2025
at 19:56
7.8/10
Woody, caramel, oaky vanilla, creamy, dark
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Mar 2025
at 18:01
7/10
Sweet,heavy and slightly roasty with some syrup, salted caramel, toffee, vanilla and hints of oak. A bit heavy and sweet
Tried
on 08 Mar 2025
at 13:42