School Night
Westbound & Down Brewing Company in Idaho Springs, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale - American Rotating|
Score
7.71
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Aromas: Baker’s chocolate, brown sugar, plums - Flavors: milk duds, dark fruit, vanilla, maple - Finish: Big smooth finish with a touch of warming bourbon heat.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can.
A- Dark brown color, dark liquid, no head.
A- Cinnamon, vanilla, brown sugar, chocolate fudge, mild booze.
T- Chocolate, mild roast, bourbon, faint baking spice, molasses.
F- Full body, slightly thin texture, average carbonation, balanced finish.
O- Nice. Smells like a stout, tastes like a barleywine. Love the 8 oz cans for beers like this. More subdued than I would expected for the abv. Good stuff.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Can from Tavour. Pours dark brn/blk with a transient slight dark tan head. Aroma of chocolate and bourbon. Full bodied. Not at all dry, but not really sugary. Lots of bitter. Flavor is chocolate, bourbon, dark fruit and a maple-like note. Good stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Canned 6/11/25, drunk 8/29/25.
Dark, clear. Small, tan head, quickly to ring.
Fudge but also some more roast than usual for these contemporary Imperial Stouts. Don't get much of the barleywine here, maybe just a bit of toffee-maple. Actually, there's some vanilla and more candy-like cara malts on the finish. Definitely plentiful bourbon, though not hot.
Soft, sweet, rich, warming and clean without any hot booze. Certainly a lasting spiciness and warmth from the alcohol and barrel, though. Nice mix of caramel, toffee, vanilla, fudge and dark chocolate, with more roast than usual for the style, leaving a bitter licorice note lingering. Body is chewy, slick, slightly syrupy but not cloying in texture or sugar level. All sorts of fun barrel complexity here.
Delicious BiL and stout blend, covered in barrel notes and oak.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
8 oz. can. Pours black, with a smaller, bubbly, tan head. The aroma is coffee, cherry wood, light brandy, pleasant tobacco, cloves, and milk chocolate. Sweet and malty, with a mellow, spicy, booziness. Heavy body, slick, and sharp. Lovely, heavy, and decadent.
djd07 (28898) reviewed School Night from Westbound & Down Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Can thanks to Megan. Pours a dark brown with small beige head that lasts. The aroma is dark fruit, bourbon, wood, toffee. Slick body, chocolate, roast, raisin, toffee, wood, nice sweetness, enjoyed this.
Small Can, from a trade, in Brumunddal. Black with little head. Roasted malts, sweetness, barrel, oak, bourbon.