Bop
Bellwoods Brewery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Collab with: Horus Aged AlesStout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular Out of Production
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Score
7.87
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Dark Chocolate! Imperial Stout! Collab!
Recently we teamed up with the esteemed, California-based, internationally recognized, 100% oak aged brewery Horus Aged Ales, to create a chocolate-centric beast called BOP (Bird Of Prey).
Upon a strong foundation of roasted malts and an 8 hour boil to concentrate all those fermentable sugars, we added a mammoth amount of high-quality Ghanaian cocoa nibs — at a ratio 3X that of our dry-hopping rate. The result is layers of rich, fudgy, intense flavour.
And because we wanted to honour the MO of Horus, we also transferred a portion of this beer into a combination of specially selected bourbon and rye barrels, in order to meditate for the next several months.
Recently we teamed up with the esteemed, California-based, internationally recognized, 100% oak aged brewery Horus Aged Ales, to create a chocolate-centric beast called BOP (Bird Of Prey).
Upon a strong foundation of roasted malts and an 8 hour boil to concentrate all those fermentable sugars, we added a mammoth amount of high-quality Ghanaian cocoa nibs — at a ratio 3X that of our dry-hopping rate. The result is layers of rich, fudgy, intense flavour.
And because we wanted to honour the MO of Horus, we also transferred a portion of this beer into a combination of specially selected bourbon and rye barrels, in order to meditate for the next several months.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Brown bottle, 500 ml, date: 24 FEB 2023, from and with Chantal Nantel (merci!), at Philippe Boutin, savoured on 4 August 2023; eye: black, opaque, no effervescence, ring and island of brown head, light lacing; nose: chocolate, light alcohol, light burnt; mouth: chocolate, light alcohol, light burnt, finale in chocolate with presence of alcohol, full-bodied, average carbonation, mildly sweet, lightly syrupy texture; to sum up: fine FRANÇAIS
Bouteille brune, 500 ml, date : 24 FEB 2023, de et avec Chantal Nantel (merci!), chez Philippe Boutin, savourée le 4 août 2023; œil : noire, opaque, pas d'effervescence, anneau et île de mousse brune, légère dentelle; nez : chocolat, léger alcool, léger brûlé; bouche : chocolat, léger alcool, léger brûlé, finale en chocolat avec présence d'alcool, corsée, carbonatation moyenne, moyennement sucrée, texture légèrement sirupeuse; en résumé : bien
Bouteille brune, 500 ml, date : 24 FEB 2023, de et avec Chantal Nantel (merci!), chez Philippe Boutin, savourée le 4 août 2023; œil : noire, opaque, pas d'effervescence, anneau et île de mousse brune, légère dentelle; nez : chocolat, léger alcool, léger brûlé; bouche : chocolat, léger alcool, léger brûlé, finale en chocolat avec présence d'alcool, corsée, carbonatation moyenne, moyennement sucrée, texture légèrement sirupeuse; en résumé : bien
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Aug 2023
at 18:06
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
500mL bottle, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma brings out intense dark chocolate, oak, and dark sugars. Flavour is extremely chocolatey, with intense dark chocolate, lots of dark sugars, and medium roast. Ridiculously chocolatey and over the top, but very tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Apr 2023
at 04:18