Minutiae (2024)
Phase Three Brewing Company in Lake Zurich, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.90
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Minutiae 2024 is our most complex blend of Minutiae yet. For 2024 we took a blend of five different stout recipes that were aged in bourbon barrels for between 21 and 40 months. The blend includes stouts aged in Elijah Craig, Wild Turkey, Willett, and the last cask remaining of perhaps our favorite group of casks we've ever used - a 15-year George Dickel Bourbon barrel that held a Munich Imperial Stout. The blend is also made up of about 20% imperial smoked stout we brewed nearly two years ago which offers amazing complexity to the overall blend with subtle smoke and a savory profile that works so well with all the vanilla and dark cocoa powder from the rest of the blend.
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9.6/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jul 2025
at 22:28
8/10
Smooth, slightly roasty and heavy with chocolate sauce, oak, wood, bourbon, toffee, cocoa and vanilla. Thicc and tasty, nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Apr 2025
at 13:32
8/10
Fairly thick, boozy, chocolate, bourbon, maybe a bit of rye. Smooth, a bit one-dimensional but tasty. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Apr 2025
at 13:29
8.6/10
Big boozy Bourbon notes here, lots of barrel. Chocolate, touch of coconut. Smooth, but the booze on the back is too much as it warms
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jan 2025
at 17:26
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Tried
on 29 Dec 2024
at 23:49
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
On tap at Phase Three - Lake Zurich, pours jet black with a small tan head. Nose is very complex, exuding lots of toasty bourbon barrels, oak, wood, and moderately roasted malt. Flavour is rich, complex and elegant, with a wonderful bourbon barrel blend expression, light woodiness, vanillin, dark sugars, and toasted oak. Super smooth and creamy palate. Damn, this is fantastic.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Dec 2024
at 22:10