Maple Crema
Vault City in Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴
Collab with: Mikerphone BrewingStout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Special
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Score
7.67
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This imperial breakfast stout, brewed with our Chicago pals at Mikerphone, was infused with mountains of sweet maple syrup, brown sugar and a rich blend of Brazilian and Colombian coffee
beans.
A balanced and layered malt bill combines pale and chocolate malt, wheat and rye with Carafa® Special (Type 3) to enhance the bold coffee flavours, while oat additions help round out the luscious, creamy mouthfeel.
beans.
A balanced and layered malt bill combines pale and chocolate malt, wheat and rye with Carafa® Special (Type 3) to enhance the bold coffee flavours, while oat additions help round out the luscious, creamy mouthfeel.
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8.9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
330ml can. Pitch black pour with a small tan head. Aroma of maple syrup and coffee, dark chocolate, vanilla. Taste is very sweet, loads of maple, coffee roast, dark chocolate, caramel, vanilla, brown sugar, warming alcohol. Full bodied, smooth, and remarkably not cloying. Wonderful stuff!
Tried
from Can
on 15 Jan 2025
at 21:15
8/10
keg at the wee vault ...dark black ..thin tan lacing ..chocolate coffee roast malts nose ..heavy dark chocolate roast malts ..long bitter roast finish
Tried
on 14 Jan 2025
at 15:42
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
On tap at The Rusty Bucket, Eltham. Black pour with a tan head. Maple, coffee, cocoa, treacle toffee, chocolate biscuit & brown sugar aromas. Rich flavours of maple, butterscotch, chocolate pudding, cocoa, coffee beans. Humungously warming brew. Exceedingly flavoursome
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Jan 2025
at 14:58
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
8th January 2025
Can. Almost clear very dark brown beer, a small bubbly darkish tan head vamooshes in an instant. Smooth palate, a little viscosity but still delivering decent fine minerally carbonation. Rich dark malts, a good chocolate fudge going on. Some slightly spicy eaters in the mid. Back end brings soft but rich and not too sweet maple with a surprised espresso coffee. Viscous and slightly alcohol spicy finish. Drinks pretty darn easy for its hefty abv. That said, lacks a wow factor for this style of Vault beer, for me, they have done much better in this range.
Can. Almost clear very dark brown beer, a small bubbly darkish tan head vamooshes in an instant. Smooth palate, a little viscosity but still delivering decent fine minerally carbonation. Rich dark malts, a good chocolate fudge going on. Some slightly spicy eaters in the mid. Back end brings soft but rich and not too sweet maple with a surprised espresso coffee. Viscous and slightly alcohol spicy finish. Drinks pretty darn easy for its hefty abv. That said, lacks a wow factor for this style of Vault beer, for me, they have done much better in this range.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Jan 2025
at 23:22
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
330ml can. Poured almost black in colour with little life. The aroma is big roasted malt, maple syrup. The flavour is strong sweet and liquorice bitter, with a smooth, rich, roasty, sweet sugary, maple syrup, dry spicy coffee, boozy alcohol bitter palate. Full bodied with soft carbonation. Big, boozy and sickly sweet. A little unrefined and unbalanced for me.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Dec 2024
at 01:10
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can at home. Pours black, nose is huge coffee, roasted, chocolate, maple, taste is similar, bit of sweetness but also lots of bitter coffee.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Dec 2024
at 10:37
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
330ml can. Pours jet black with no head. Aroma is oily roast, bitter coffee and a little maple syrup. Taste has sweet maple syrup and bitter coffee throughout with some roast on the finish.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Dec 2024
at 22:51
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Black beer with a thin tan head and a massive coffee aroma. A little of the syrup too. Flavour follows suit. Heaps of rich coffee, loads of maple,, brown sugar and sweet, toasty malt. A few simple flavours but with with loads of hefty and heart over a rich body. Delicious.
Tried
on 07 Dec 2024
at 23:17