A Jellyfish Called Hazelnut
Barreled Souls Brewing Company in Saco, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Vitamin Sea BrewingStout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Special Out of Production
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7.06
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
500 ml. Vintage 2019. #57/1260 bottle. Aroma is grape jelly right upfront. Flavor is ashy, overly roasted and grape hints. Flavor doesn’t show hazelnut at this point. Not bad but clearly passed it’s prime.
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Bottle pour shared by ClarkVV/Chalumeaux--thanks, guys! Dark brown with ring of beige head, light viscosity. Aroma is strong initial grape jelly. As it sits, earthy malt, toffee, woody, overly roasted. Taste is earthy toffee, wood, overly roasted malt. Smooth, thin, finish as taste. Despite initial grape blast, did not translate to later aroma/taste. No nuts. Likely a reflection of age.
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Bottled 7/11/2019, 57/1260, drunk 1/20/24. Dark maroon-mahogany. Thin bubbles rapidly fizzle. A touch of metal? Grape jelly for sure. Maybe it's just the dark malt and acidic grape. Crusty malts, moderate grape and too much roast. No booze. Bearably sweet, boy this must have been sugary back in the day. Peanut? Not really hazelnut. Grape isn't overdone/overbearing at this point. Malty at least. Not boozey at least. I think the age has been kind. Just too roasty, oddly enough.
7/11/19 57/1260 smells like grape jelly, roasted malt. Taste is grape, lots of ash, no nuts at all. Has seriously past its prime.
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Had this Friday 26th February 2021, sat outside drinking this by the wood oven, it's a lovely evening, we're on a Zoom call with a Ratebeer group, picked up from Beerdome webshop Grootegast Netherlands (I think?). What a lovely name, 'A Jellyfish called Hazelnut'. Pours black with a tan head, lots of cinder toffee, nice softness, I completely get the grapeiness as well, it's like jammy, chocolatey, really good so good that Loz who is actually drinking a very nice Buxton Rain Shadow Single Barrel Bourbon has decided she wants to get in on the act and has literally stolen my glass once I told her the name of the beer and showed her the bottle. I have wrenched it back. Big thanks to Stu (rating below) whose review inspired me to buy this.
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Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is nutty, chocolate, caramel, fruity, taste is juicy berries, roasted, burnt malts, chocolate, hazelnut.