Showstopper
Alesong Brewing & Blending in Eugene, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.42
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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
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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8.6/10
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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.
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
8/10
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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
7.3/10
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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 .
Flavor is licorice cheap chocolate, coconut roasted malts .
Tried
from Draft
at
Taphouse
on 18 Oct 2025
at 16:02
7/10
Magus, mõru, šokolaadine, röstine, linnaseline, veits alksine, vanilje. Ok.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Oct 2025
at 16:20
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2022
at 15:25
7.8/10
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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