Rare DOS Double Barrel (Cinnamon And Vanilla)
Cycle Brewing in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.82
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
04-07-20 // Hopfenjünger-Hef big bottle sharing 2020. Rich and thick IS. Chocolate sweetness cinnamon and vanilla. This lost a bit over time compared to the other cycles this night.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
22 ounce bottle into snifter, bottled in 7/2017. Pours dense pitch black color with a 1 finger fairly dense and rocky dark tan head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice dense spotty foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, molasses, cinnamon, toffee, fudge, bourbon, toasted oak, biscuit, and dark bread/crust; with lighter notes of coconut, licorice, raisin, prune, cherry, fig, date, smoke, oak char, leather, tobacco, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toast/oaky earthiness. Minimal booze in the aromas as it warms. Dam nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malts, vanilla, cinnamon, bourbon barrels, and light fruity yeast/earthy hop notes; with big strength. Taste of huge milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, molasses, cinnamon, toffee, fudge, bourbon, toasted oak, biscuit, and dark bread/crust; with lighter notes of coconut, licorice, raisin, prune, cherry, fig, date, smoke, oak char, leather, tobacco, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toast/oaky earthiness. Very mild herbal, grass, roast, char bitterness; and cinnamon/bourbon/oak tannin spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, molasses, cinnamon, toffee, fudge, bourbon, toasted oak, biscuit, dark bread/crust, coconut, licorice, dark fruit, light smoke/char, leather, tobacco, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toast/oaky earthiness on the finish for a while. Amazing complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malts, vanilla, cinnamon, bourbon barrels, and light fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; with a fantastic roast/hop bitter/sweet, and cinnamon/bourbon/oak spiciness balance; with no cloying sweetness after the finish. Slightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness and cinnamon/bourbon/oak spiciness. Light-medium carbonation and very full body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/velvety/bready, and slightly slick/sticky/chalky/tannic mouthfeel that is fantastic. Mild increasing warmth of 11%, with zero lingering barrel booze after the finish. Overall this is an amazing barrel aged flavored imperial stout. All around amazing complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malts, vanilla, cinnamon, bourbon barrels, and light fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the big ABV, with the mildly bitter/spicy/tannic/drying finish. Amazingly soft/silky feel for the ABV. Perfectly balanced super rich malts, flavorings, and bourbon barrel presence/integration. Not overly sweet/heavy from lingering dryness. Not overwhelming on any aspect. A highly enjoyable offering, and top tier quality style example. One of their best ones so far. Aged amazingly.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle @ El Catador Invasion in Sanderslum, Bye Bye - MrOrla says goodbye. Pours black with a small creamy head. Coffee, chocolate, and ashes. Smooth. Dope.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Bottle thanks to Homer!! Pours opaque black with a brown head and good lacing. Rich cocoa, vanilla, bourbon and cinnamon aroma, desert-like. Medium plus sweet, light plus bitter, cinnamon and mocha bourbon. Full body, creamy. Good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
From 650 ml bottle. Black color with brown head. Malty aroma, spicy, cinnamon, vanilla, cocoa, chocolate, coconut, bourbon. Sweet and bitter taste like aroma. Medium to full silky oily body with soft carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle: Poured a dark brown with tan head. Aroma is huge Coffee hints of vanilla. Taste is maple syrup brown sugar with coffee, vanilla, not much of cinnamon for me. Another solid offering from Cycle!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Refrigerated brown bomber poured into a glass. Black with small beige head. Aroma is cinnamon, medium body, low carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is cinnamon, wood, and vanilla.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle shared at Lucky Bamboo share. Pours a thick, viscous motor oil black with a finger of brown head that lingers, then dissipates. Lots of cinnamon at first in the nose then chocolate malt, homemade whole grain chocolate chip cookies with some vanilla and bourbon. More cinnamon on the palate, bourbon soaked chocolate brownies. Not overly sweet, roasted cacao nib character balances things out. Whisky comes out in the finish, but again fits in nicely. Cinnamon throughout.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
22oz bottle pours out black topped with a tan head. Nose is cinnamon barrel notes vanilla plenty of roast malts and chocolate. Taste is more of the big cinnamon chocolate vanilla barrel whisky kick.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle thanks to Derek. Pours black with medium beige head that lasts. The aroma is strong cinnamon, roast, cocoa, vanilla, wood, bourbon. Slick body, roast, milk chocolate, oak, bourbon, vanilla, very sweet, hides alcohol well, enjoyed this.