Dark Star - Bourbon Barrel Spice Wars
Fremont Brewing Company in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.82
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Bourbon barrel-aged Dark Star finished with cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, ginger, vanilla, and clove.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Black. Spicy heat, vanilla, chocolate, oak, deep toasted malt, light roasted malts. Full bodied. Nice, but anything more than a snifter gets a bit much for me. Prefer then non-spiced version.
Tried
on 03 Mar 2017
at 23:56
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Waxed bomber, 2016 release. Aroma is vanilla, toffee, coconut, oak, bourbon, raisins, licorice, clove, allspice, chocolate. Pours black with a collapsing tan head. Taste is sweet with strong flavors of spice (vanilla, cinnamon, clove, allspice, nutmeg, ginger--in that order of prominence), finishing bitter. Damn, this is good. I’m liking this better than the coffee version.
Tried
on 11 Feb 2017
at 23:41
9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle shared at deanso’s. Dark pour with a tan head. Notes of cinnamon, cloves, vanilla, chocolate, nutmeg, a bit of honey. Full body, medium carbonation and a sweet finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Nov 2016
at 03:43
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Sampled from bottle at deanso’s. Black with tan head. Big ass bourbon note, strong spices. Big roasty butterscotch. Big sweet, medium bitter. Medium bitter. Big alcoholic but still so nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2016
at 15:48
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared thanks to Kevin. Black with small light brown head. Massive spices with cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla, dark chocolate and some coffee, some bourbon, dark chocolate. Over medium sweet and medium bitter. Full bodied. Very strong spices.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2016
at 15:43
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared. Black with a big beige head. Aroma of cloves coming out strong with the cinnamon, really spicy, vanilla, bourbon, caramel, nutmeg and booze. Flavour is heavy sweet. Full bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2016
at 15:42
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle Shared with 7 friends. Thin ring tan head. Clear black pour. A bit too spicy for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2016
at 15:38
10/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 10
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 10
Big THANKS fort his treat. 650 ml. bottle sampled. 2014 Vintage. Black with little tanned head. Nose is massive thick viscous bourbon with low black chocolate, pure goop with sugar, vanilla, touch real & bourbon oak vanilla, there is vague nutmeg & some pleasant clove sinking into the molasses sugar bourbon goop. Taste is cloves, sugar & massive bourbon, pleasant warming, bourbon is upfront, just a small touch of spices, perfect just a hint, vanilla oak bourbon, touch cinnamon & nutmeg, pleasant lingering warming bourbon & hint of cloves in the back. Amazing, such thick glorious bourbon RIS pure sugar, vanilla molasses with a perfect kiss of spices. Amazing, so good. I adored the basic bourbon version, so good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Nov 2016
at 07:05
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Re-rate 1/27/17: Bottle/Draught at RateBeer Best festival in Santa Rosa. Black. Sweet, chocolate, vanilla, bourbon, spices. 8/4/7/4/15=3.8
[1/30/16] Bottle sample at the Encomium bottle share, after RateBeer Best awards ceremony at Hyatt Vineyard Creek Hotel in Santa Rosa. Thanks everyone who shared bottles! Black with bourbon, chocolate, fudge, cookies. Sweet. Full-bodied. Slightly boozy. 8/4/8/4/15=3.9
[1/30/16] Bottle sample at the Encomium bottle share, after RateBeer Best awards ceremony at Hyatt Vineyard Creek Hotel in Santa Rosa. Thanks everyone who shared bottles! Black with bourbon, chocolate, fudge, cookies. Sweet. Full-bodied. Slightly boozy. 8/4/8/4/15=3.9
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Feb 2016
at 18:12
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle thanks to Chris! Pours inky black, medium brown head, nice lacing. Aroma is cocoa, molasses, bourbon, vanilla, cinnamon. Flavor is similar, light plus sweet, medium bitter, a fair bit of spice, cocoa, vanilla. Some heat. Full body, creamy mouthfeel. Clove on the finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jan 2016
at 18:47