Skeleton Key - Pineapple & Coconut
Bellwoods Brewery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.25
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2022 release: Skeleton Key is an imperial stout aged for just over a year in rum barrels, with a mix of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, anise, cardamom, all spice, and vanilla. The resulting beer is an intense showcase of dark chocolate, caramelized malts, spirit barrel, and lively spices. This 2022 variant has been conditioned on pineapple and coconut.
2024: Released annually, Skeleton Key is our rhum barrel aged imperial stout, spiced with a mélange of nutmeg, ginger, allspice, cardamom, cassia cinnamon and ceylon cinnamon buds.
This batch features the base of our 2024 plus pineapple and coconut, and tastes like a coconut macaroon meets pineapple upside down cake all baked into a cinnamon bun. Who could say no!?
2024: Released annually, Skeleton Key is our rhum barrel aged imperial stout, spiced with a mélange of nutmeg, ginger, allspice, cardamom, cassia cinnamon and ceylon cinnamon buds.
This batch features the base of our 2024 plus pineapple and coconut, and tastes like a coconut macaroon meets pineapple upside down cake all baked into a cinnamon bun. Who could say no!?
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7/10
Tried
from Can
on 17 May 2025
at 21:13
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from the brewery. Jet black pour, with a medium brown head. Aroma is earthy, sweet, nutty barrel, with some light vanilla, and pie spices. Big roast, boozy rum, and cocoa. Mouthfeel is oily, and slick, carb is soft. Finish is medium bitter, quite sweet, more earthy, vanilla rum notes with pie spice, main cinnamon, and cardamom. The pineapple is lost, and nowhere to be found.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2025
at 06:52
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Brown bottle, 500 ml, 2022 vintage, via Chantal Nantel (merci!) on July 27, 2022, savoured on September 8, 2022; eye: black, opaque, no effervescence, sheet of dark brown head that turns into an island, no lacing; nose: sourish, malt, cinnamon, sugar, rum, spices, slight alcohol, light fruity, pineapple; mouth: tart, malt, cinnamon, sugar, rum, spices, slight alcohol, fruity, pineapple, finale in rum with presence of cinnamon-spices, full-bodied, lightly below average carbonation, quite sweet, syrupy texture; in summary: fine FRANÇAIS
Bouteille brune, 500 ml, millésime 2022, via Chantal Nantel (merci!) le 27 juillet 2022, savourée le 8 septembre 2022; œil : noire, opaque, pas d’effervescence, couverture de mousse brun foncé qui se transforme en un îlot, pas de dentelle; nez : aigrelet, malt, cannelle, sucre, rhum, épices, très léger alcool, léger fruité, ananas; bouche : aigrelet, malt, cannelle, sucre, rhum, épices, très léger alcool, fruité, ananas, finale en rhum avec présence de cannelle-épices, corsée, carbonatation légèrement sous la moyenne, pas mal sucrée, texture sirupeuse; en résumé : bien
Bouteille brune, 500 ml, millésime 2022, via Chantal Nantel (merci!) le 27 juillet 2022, savourée le 8 septembre 2022; œil : noire, opaque, pas d’effervescence, couverture de mousse brun foncé qui se transforme en un îlot, pas de dentelle; nez : aigrelet, malt, cannelle, sucre, rhum, épices, très léger alcool, léger fruité, ananas; bouche : aigrelet, malt, cannelle, sucre, rhum, épices, très léger alcool, fruité, ananas, finale en rhum avec présence de cannelle-épices, corsée, carbonatation légèrement sous la moyenne, pas mal sucrée, texture sirupeuse; en résumé : bien
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2022
at 22:43
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(500ml 2022 bottle shared by Herbalist, thanks!) Pours black with a small pale brown head. Notes of deep roasted malt with molasses and dark caramel, quite fruity overall, creamy coconut, moderate spicebox, the pineapple becomes increasingly prominent from mid-sip on, moderate wood and some rum in there to create a 'dark pina colada' feel to the finish which is fairly sweet and lightly roast-bitter. Medium-full, very oily syrupy texture, softly carbonated, alcohol hidden. A touch sweet but fun!
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2022
at 16:43