Priory of Shadows - Barrel Aged
Ethereal Brewing in Lexington, Kentucky, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
6.90
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle pour from ClarkVV--thanks, Clark. An inky black with nice viscosity. Aroma is strong roasted malt, earthy toffee. Taste follows aroma with addition of mild barrel. Smooth, thick, with finish as taste. Too roasted and earthy--not enjoyable.
CLW (16720) reviewed Priory of Shadows - Barrel Aged from Ethereal Brewing 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
375 ml bottle. Aroma is vanilla and slight barrel. Barrel is weak in flavor with an earthy / acidic vanilla. Overall, the barrel doesn’t help balance the sweetness. I never heard of this brewery. So no expectations.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
375mL bottle, 2023, from DrFabulous, drunk 1/20/24. Dark, viscous, no head. Lovely, lovely vanilla, fudge, hints of easygoing bourbon. Some banana amyl coming on strong. Must be the heavy vanilla acidity. Super intense, sharp, bitter vanilla. A bit thin, though not boozey or over-barreled. I like the vanilla, it's just too acidic. Savory, fudgey notes are excellent but can't get past the sharpness and relative thinness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle, courtesy of drfabulous, pours with a deep dark void of a body that supported a short lived dark tan head of foam. The aroma offers up smooth bourbon and invited chocolate and vanilla. Nice. The taste delivers a rich rewarding blend of smooth booze boosted bourbon sweetness rolling around in a pool of soft vanilla goodness and a bit of chocolate. To midway the big ABV starts to warm this experience up as well as cutting into the richness with a modest boozy sting creating a nice balance across the palate. Solid sipper. I love this.