Congdon's Bluberry Fritter Stout
Barreled Souls Brewing Company in Saco, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Series Out of Production|
Score
6.90
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
500mL bottled 12/6/2019, #661/720, thanks Chalumeaux! Slow gusher even after being fridged and aged for 3 years. Massively carbonated producing a smoked cherry wood head that shows moderately-strong retention. Clear deep mahogany body. Some lactic character at this point, or is that just the blueberry mixing with an ashy roast? Perhaps both. Doesn't smell excessively sugary at this point...no alcohol and it does smell like blueberry pastry soaked in stout. Not exactly my thing, but hey, it's what they were going for... Wow....that's...sweet, syrupy, donutty, bitter, roasty, oily, all at once. Intense and with lingering roasted acidity, peppery smoke and tons of rich, intense sugar at the very start. There's an oily smokiness throughout that really saves this from being a drainpour, as well as the moderate acidity. But yeah, it's undeniably very sweet/sugary. Not boozey at this point, at least.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
50cl bottle I bought at Congdon's pours a muddy, cola brown with no head. Nose has blueberry and caramel and malt. Sugary, vanilla too. Some mild spice lurking. Flavor has blueberries and vanilla, sumac, caramel, malt. Full bodied, sweet finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at share: pours black with a white head. Aroma is blueberry and chocolate. Taste is fruity, chocolate. Nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle, at share, thanks to nimbleprop. Pours black. Blueberry, chocolate, vanilla, macerated blueberry, toasted barrel, brioche. Good body. Excellent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle (12/16/19) pour courtesy of Chalumeaux--thanks, TJ! It's an opaque black with no sparkle, nice viscosity, finger-width crackling fizzy light brown head with poor retention and no lacing. Aroma is cinnamon, fried pastry, mild blueberry and alcohol. Taste is tart fruit followed by milder cinnamon and pastry. Mouthfeel is light bodied with thin, frothy texture, average carbonation and finish with virtually no taste and dry mild bitterness. Overall, this is such an outlier for Barreled Souls that I'm actually going to try to pretend that it never happened. Maybe, at 17 months, this just went over or something but it is wrong on a number of levels.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
500 ml bottle. #580 / 720. Date:12/06/2019. Massively carbonated. Aroma shows is oak, funky berries, red wine. Flavor is about the same. The mouthfeel is messed up because of the fermentation in the bottle. A little boozy. This is a bit of a let down.
Really overcarbed thin mouth feel notes of berry and oak with lingering barrel.