Alesong Brewing & Blending Showstopper

Showstopper

 

Alesong Brewing & Blending in Eugene, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular
Score
7.42
ABV: 14.4% IBU: - Ticks: 6
Brewed with Eugene’s Hult Center for the Performing Arts to commemorate their 43rd season, Showstopper ‘25 is our third release in our ongoing collaboration series that aspires to honor the Hult Center’s vision of creating shared experiences that transform, engage, and unite.

This edition of Showstopper is a blend of imperial stouts aged in Elijah Craig 8-year bourbon barrels and then finished on a healthy dose of vanilla beans and Dominican Republic Zorzal cocoa nibs. Look for Showstopper at your next Hult Center show – it’s the perfect theater sipper, if we do say so ourselves!

Barrels: Elijah Craig Bourbon, Westward Whiskey

Microbes: Saccharomyces
 

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8.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5

Shared with Josh at Festival of Dark Arts 2026 in Astoria, OR.
Cocoa, vanilla, and American oak. Finishes with some whiskey notes. Moderately to highly sweet. Balanced and nice.

Tried from Draft on 14 Feb 2026 at 22:16


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Dark brown. Rich barrel, light tannin, chocolate, bitter, a little alcohol. Yeah that’s nice.

Tried on 14 Feb 2026 at 22:02


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Boozy caramelly and coffee liqueur like aroma. Roasted malts and herbal coffee
Flavor is licorice cheap chocolate, coconut roasted malts .

Tried from Draft at Taphouse on 18 Oct 2025 at 16:02


7

Magus, mõru, šokolaadine, röstine, linnaseline, veits alksine, vanilje. Ok.

Tried from Draft on 11 Oct 2025 at 16:20


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle

Tried from Bottle on 27 Dec 2022 at 15:25


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

On tap at LL. Pours a pitch black hue with a small brown head. A huge sweet barrel nose. Massive sweet barrels, licorice, vanilla, roast, heat. Just awesome.

Tried from Draft on 18 Sep 2022 at 01:43