The PastryArchy Candy Cane
DuClaw Brewing Company in Baltimore, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.71
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A beautifully dark imperial Irish stout made with Tahitian vanilla bean, mint, vanilla and lactose. The tan head is as tasty as it is inviting. Come on in from the cold and slide into the holidays with cool notes of peppermint, roasty malts, and deep chocolate.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can. Deep dark brown, almost black with a two finger, tan head. Aroma is mint and dark roasted grains. Taste is dark roasted coffee, dark roasted grains and mint.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Jan 2025
at 05:38
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
s: fake peppermint - toasted malt - cream a: dark brown body - thin pure brown head t: rich mint - strong brewed coffee - rustic grains p: bitter end icing sugar - artificial flavours o: strong & pungent - good malts - too fake for mint 16 ounce can - Gettysburg Beer Mart: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - 31-January-2023 - US$4,49 - Canned: 31-October-2022 - sampled: 15-December-2023 as Beer #15 of my 2023 Advent Calendar
Tried
from Can
on 19 Dec 2023
at 16:42
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
16 oz. can from HEB in Boerne, TX. Pours a very dark brown color with a light brown head and good retention. Very good lacing. Roasted malt and dark chocolate aroma. A mix of sweet milk chocolate, bitter dark chocolate, roasted malts, and a subtle hint of peppermint in the finish. A little boozy too, but the flavors help cover the sting. Medium body. Light carbonation. A nice winter warmer that's restrained enough to enjoy.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Dec 2022
at 00:50
7/10
Tried
on 26 Feb 2022
at 21:13
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours near black with a dark tan head. The aroma is overwhelmingly of peppermint. The sweet flavor, at first, is mostly peppermint. As it warms, chocolate malt and a hint of vanilla comes through but there’s still ample mint. It’s enjoyable and quite good, but to me it could have been great with a bigger stout.
Tried
on 29 Dec 2021
at 06:33
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
16 oz. Almost 14 months old. Aroma has notes of candy cane, dark bread, vanilla, coffee. Pours pitch black with a one+ finger dark tan head with excellent retention. Taste is very lightly sweet with a moderate herbal bitterness, finishing dry; flavors like the aroma descriptors. Nice velvety perfectly carbonated mouthfeel. Interesting idea to use a dry Irish stout as the base. Beer has held up well after more than a year. Not bad at all; better than its scores suggest.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Nov 2021
at 22:11
4.5/10
But why?!
Tried
from Can
on 27 Sep 2021
at 22:13
8/10
Dark black body large frothy light brown head. Peppermint, roast, chocolate aroma. Peppermint, chocolate, roast flavor. Medium full body moderately low carbonation. 8/5/8/4/16 4.1
Tried
from Can
on 25 Mar 2021
at 22:46
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
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Tried
from Can
on 04 Jan 2021
at 20:14
4.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Big pounder can for $3. Pour is big and black as well as large and in charge. Choco moose head goes craggy. Smell is same old same old imperial stout. No sign of candy cane on the olfactory. Definitely imperial stout but it has just enough impact to be peppermint. Not over the top, but you know its there. This stuff adds and extra dimension to strong imperial stout. Yes, its big and bold, as well as insulting, to the lager lover yet; it has a strange candy magic about it. Candy cane? Just asking. Maybe or not. More interesting than the typical impy stout? Maybe not but it never goes completely off the rails. At least it does have some co2 on the palate clear to the end, but just barely.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Dec 2020
at 21:11