The Dark Side of Paradise
BramBrass in Heestert, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: De MeesterStout - Imperial Regular
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Score
7.26
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Imperial stout aged on Weller bourbon barrels for over a year. Refermented in the bottle with maple syrup.
Hops: Columbus.
Hops: Columbus.
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8/10
Tried
on 20 Jul 2025
at 22:35
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Stacks. Hazy black, stable, foamy, dark beige head. Aroma of fondant, dark fudge, maple syrup, vanilla bean, cappuccino, prune, black olive, teriyaki, bourbon. Taste has sweet candied fig & prune in a thick pecan-nutty, dark fudge- & chocolate sauce-like malt body, some bitter coffee roast. Peppery hops in the finish, lingering sweetened fondant, woody maple and syrup; along with a decent dash of warming bourbon alcohol. Full body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Lovely as ever!
Tried
on 08 Jul 2025
at 08:08
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Cream-tan-mossy head, fast gone over black beer. Faint cigar ashes, cigarleaf, maple syrup, molasses, wood. Sweet, molasses, treacle, sugar syrup, maple ditto. Faint dry-almost-bitter from the roast, faintly phenolic. Very sticky, viscous; good carbonation; alcoholheat, heavy. Sweet, punch-y. Txs to Stef!
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 May 2025
at 08:34
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 May 2025
at 14:23
7/10
Tried
on 23 Feb 2025
at 20:13