Apple Brandy Mega GBS
(has 1 batch)
Hardywood Park Craft Brewery in Richmond, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Winter Out of Production|
Score
7.62
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This double Imperial milk stout has been refermented with honey and spiced with ginger, vanilla, and cinnamon, and it’s spent the last 13 months aging in Laird’s Apple Brandy barrels, imparting a deep, fruit-forward flavor. Go MEGA or go home!
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8/10
Small pour from hops and shine. Opaque black. Very thin tan head. Brandy aroma. Gingerbread, Brandy cask, dark roasted malts. Hints of coffee. Viscous. Really excellent. One of the best of the gbs
Tried
from Cask
on 20 May 2025
at 02:05
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2023
at 20:12
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle - 13%, so I'm going to rate the Mega version over the other entry which is listed at 10.4%. Aroma was amazing apple brandy, light gingerbread spices, pleasant roasted malts. Super smooth, with some moderate, but pleasant heat. Green apple (but not the off-flavor). Smooth. Base is well masked here in this one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jan 2022
at 02:50
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at the brewery. Pours black with small tan head. The aroma is cocoa, spice, brandy, wood. Slick body, apple brandy, vanilla, wood, nice sweetness, very good.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Dec 2021
at 22:41
9/10
Dark black body medium creamy light brown head. Big brandy, ginger, chocolate, vanilla aroma. Brandy ginger chocolate vanila spice flavor. Medium full body moderate carbonation. 9/5/9/4/19 4.6
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2020
at 20:38
8/10
Ej, pozytywny zaskok, jest troche tych dodatkow nienarzucajaco sie, do tego jakby ciemne owoce, rodzynki, fajna calkiem beczka, jakies kandyzowane klimaty... fajne cialo. Cynamon obecny fajnie w posmakach. No wgl pyszka
Tried
on 22 Apr 2020
at 18:03