Threat Level Amburana
Sapwood Cellars Brewery in Columbia, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured Rotating|
Score
7.48
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Stout with Amburana and Coffee
Both Mike and Scott have traveled to Brazil to attend brewing conferences. They both came back with a love of amburana, a wood traditionally used to age Brazilian Cachaça where it adds a buttery-cinnamon roll aroma. Here we paired it with a caramel-forward stout and one of our other favorite things from Brazil, coffee roasted by our friends at Vigilante Coffee Co.!
Both Mike and Scott have traveled to Brazil to attend brewing conferences. They both came back with a love of amburana, a wood traditionally used to age Brazilian Cachaça where it adds a buttery-cinnamon roll aroma. Here we paired it with a caramel-forward stout and one of our other favorite things from Brazil, coffee roasted by our friends at Vigilante Coffee Co.!
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8.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can shared by CLW--thanks, Chris! Opaque black with nice viscosity, no head or lacing. Aroma is strong roasted malt, coffee, cinnamon, mild caramel. Taste is strong cinnamon, roasted malt, coffee, milder oak. Smooth, a bit thin on the palate (but what do you expect for 6.5%), soft carbonation, finish as taste. Wonderful aroma and taste and, while body may seem "thin," this is relative to the strength of the aroma and flavor and you would expect a fuller, heavier beer, but it is consistent with ABV. Unbelievable strength for ABV and VALUE! No chilis but kind of Abraxas light!
Tried
from Can
on 17 May 2025
at 22:51
8.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 8
16 oz can. Aroma is bursting with chocolate, wood, and most of all coffee. The Amburana gives a cinnamon, and wood of course. Body is really great for the gravity with a smoothness. For only 6.5%, this is quite amazing!
Tried
from Can
from Tavour
on 17 May 2025
at 22:48
8.2/10
LCI. Maybe the song time to drink this one at the end of a share with insane dark ales from Darkness 2017 to Truth to Microcosm IV 1-4. Roasty, coffee not s as much of the normal herbal sweet amburana as I would have expected, light spice
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2025
at 09:44