Hardywood Park Craft Brewery Foolery (Bourbon Barrel)

Foolery (Bourbon Barrel)

 

Hardywood Park Craft Brewery in Richmond, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Imperial Special
Score
7.85
ABV: 14.0% IBU: 50 Ticks: 21
Foolery is a huge Imperial Stout aged for eight months in bourbon barrels. Massive chocolate, vanilla, and caramel flavors are preceded by aromatic hints of dark cherry, tobacco, leather and oak. Thick and rich, Foolery brings rounded bourbon character contributions from the barrels and a nice warming finish.
 

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8.5
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle @ Fonefan US Tasting. Pours pitch black with a small dark brown head. Aromas of bourbon, vanilla, chocolate, light roasty, light ashy, caramel. Taste is boozy, savory, bourbon, chocolate, roasty.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Nov 2019 at 16:54


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Refrigerate 75 cL brown bottle poured into a cup. Black with small beige head. Aroma is tart chocolate, medium body, low carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is chocolate, coffee, and green pepper.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Sep 2018 at 00:35


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle sample at Heist bottle share. Dark brown color brown head. Aroma of boozy vanilla. Taste has cocoa, vanilla, more sweet booze. Decent.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Nov 2017 at 09:41


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Roast, caramel, some nut and dark chocolate. Oily texture like gas stations. Finishes bitter sweet. Black pour with mocha head and lacing. Nice stuff. Tap at Snally.

Tried from Draft on 28 Sep 2017 at 08:06


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle shared by Benzai, packaged 03/29/16, 25 cl sample. Dark color, short frothy head. Aroma of dark roast, booze, bourbon vanilla sweetness, bit cookie. Quite boozy in taste as well, lots of roasty bitterness, cookie sweetness. A big sipper, but after a few other beers, not a big problem. Loved it.

Tried from Bottle on 28 May 2017 at 13:18


8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle @ Caesar shared with Caesar and Skortila. Opaque pitch color, medium sized quite quickly diminishing moderately brown colored head. Aroma is malts, dark malts, vanilla, bourbon. Taste malts, bourbon, dark malts, lightly vanilla, wood, nice bitterness. Medium body, suitable carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 27 May 2017 at 18:03


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

5oz draft pour, plus some additional oz from others - at Sehkraft Brewing. Poured a nearly pitch black color with a small wispy head. Aroma was roasted chocolate - lots of dark chocolate here. Lots of roast here. Light dried fruit sweetness, dark chocolate. Alcohol is present, but not overpowering for such a high ABV. Really solid.

Tried from Draft on 11 Dec 2016 at 11:29


8.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle 750ml. corked. [ As Hardywood Foolery ].Clear dark black brown color with a small, fizzy, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, dark malt, bourbon, oak - tobacco. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, roasted, bourbon, light oak - tobacco - cherry - berries. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20161111] 8-3-9-4-17

Tried from Bottle on 20 Nov 2016 at 10:50


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7

Thanks Dave for sharing the bottle! Poured into a snifter showing a pitch black center with red wine rims and no head. The nose shows a strong brandy forwardness with light apples. The palate is full bodied and lightly carbonated, with a big oily slick body. Strong but muted brandy forwardness with apples in the background.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Nov 2016 at 12:27


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

75 cl bottle. Pours pitch black with a small tan head. Aroma is dense roasted malty and chocolate. Lingering roasted malty. Lingering sweet malty. Dark malty and slight liqourice finish.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Nov 2016 at 05:30