Maakun (16597) reviewed Forgotten Lore from The Bruery 5 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle shared thanks to Alexander. Very dark brown. Alcohol, chocolate, bourbon, spicy rye, rye bread, nuts. Solid sweet, huge bitter booze. Medium bodied, boozy finish. Massive boost, but not that nice otherwise.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle at the DC Beer August Share. Poured a orange juice-orange with a white head. Flavor was tropical fruits, papaya, orange liquor. Sweet, boozy. Lots of booze. Hot.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Flarra på Wilhelmshill! Tusen tack Patte som fick med dig den här från Peders! Doftar plommon o russin o fatlagring. Smaken balanserad med perfekt kolsyra med massor av plommon o mjuk avslutning med känslan av fatlagringen. Riktigt njutbart!
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Flarra slutet på stor ölprovning wilhemshill med ölsommelieren .Vi testat 3 nya Dipor från sverige tidigare som var så dåliga så vi fick hälla ut . Sista var från Brewski som tyvär misslyckas ofta med sina Dipor men lyckas med sina festivaler .Ja nog om detta. Denna öl åhhhh plommon , lite torr choklad , madeira och lite svag ekighet . jättegod
Rennat42 (5616) reviewed Grey Monday from The Bruery 5 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Bottle.
A- Dark brown color, dark liquid, no head.
A- Bourbon, caramel, milk chocolate.
F- Chocolate, caramel, faint nuttiness, oak, mild booze.
T- Full body, average texture, slightly flat carbonation, balanced finish.
O- Drinks more like a 9% beer than a 20.5%! Smoooooth. Hazelnuts are there but less so than I expected. 3 years old (2022 vintage). Maybe a hint of acetone as it warms. I wouldn't buy again for the price, but a very solid beer.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
12.7 oz bottle labeled as Spicy Island (only mention of it being a Black Tuesday variant is on the back label in small type) with an ABV of 16.9%. Aroma has notes of tobacco, leather, wood, alcohol, chocolate, molasses, raisin, pineapple, chili pepper. Taste is sweet and tart with some bitterness in the background taming the bold flavors. Some bourbon in there but it’s a bit hidden behind the sour pineapple and rich stout flavors. The habanero spiciness is fairly tame, but it does build on the palate, making it a mildly spicy beer about halfway through the bottle.
madmitch76 (40452) reviewed 24k Tuesday from The Bruery 6 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
9th August 2025
Opaque dark brown beer, small and short lived tan head. When the head dies back (about 2 seconds after the pour) we get to particles of carrot floating about. Well then, that is a first. Nose is boozy carrot cake, well carrot cake soaked in bourbon. Palate is relatively light for a brew well north of 15%< light and mildly dry, decent fine carbonation. Airy dark malts, some dark chocolate and dark malt cream, a little mild chocolate. Tangy spices, cinnamon obvious. Sweet carrot sits slightly apart but has not been banned from the party. Vanilla and ripe bourbon soaked fruits on the finish along with some inevitable alcohol spice. Full on carrot cake Impy. It works well, certainly not over sweet, the bourbon barrel really gives this a grown up slant. Impressive pastry, goes beyond the usual tropes.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed The Grade from The Bruery 6 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
The Bruery's take on Baltic porter was never going to be straightforward I suppose - so they added maple syrup and fenugreek seed, two decidedly non-Baltic ingredients, for good measure... Bottle from Etre Gourmet shared with Craftmember. Regularly shaped, densely moussey, pale brown-beige head over a black beer with waferthin mahogany edges. Aroma of burnt brown sugar, lots of toast, indeed fenugreek seed piercing through here and there, fondant, roasted walnuts, wet leather, minerals, dried porcini, dessicated blueberries, hints of nutmeg, beef stock, bayleaf, gum and only very distant maple syrup. Dryish onset even, dried prunes and blueberries with a dash of beef stock umami but restrainedly so, some background sweetness from the maple syrup but also quite restrained contrary to what I was expecting; very active but fine-bubbled carb, paired with a pleasant, limestone-ish minerality stretching through the whole. Supple, smooth toasty maltiness, with the maple syrup coming to fruition only further on, when it adds slickness and spiciness - the latter of course connecting with the fenugreek, which behaves more herbaceously and is - if you know it well - easy to recognise without dominating. Toasty, drying, bittering malts fill the finish with glimpses of coffee and pure chocolate here and there - but the emphasis lies very much on the toast, even in a 'charred' way, more so than I was expecting from an American postmodern interpretation of this style, which admittedly is very roasty in its traditional eastern and northern European form. Dry finish, peppery hops and ongoing roast, but also, in the final stage, a Côte du Rhône-wine-like astringency and fruitiness adding to the experience. More roast-forward than I was expecting, as said, but kept elegant and smooth by minerality, spicy elements and this slick maple syrup effect, which refrains from downright sweetness - a true exercise in balance, because both the maple syrup and the fenugreek could easily have ruined this beer. Unusual, in a sense, but balanced and gracious. It does not happen very often anymore that a craft beer truly surprises me, but this one did it.
Charlotte (10579) reviewed Fürst (2024) from The Bruery 6 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pitch black colour with small beige head.Aroma of bourbon and vanilla nice smooth warming with flavour of licorice and barrel nice smooth and warming mouth feels and good full body.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
11th beer in the barrel-aged collection obtained from the brewery, time to determine what a barrel does for a scotch ale. The 12.7 oz bottle is opened and going into my Delirium snifter. A dark cola-colored body finished off by a minimal ring of taupe foam. I smell dried fruit, peat and barrel. The taste is really pretty decent. A considerable amount of booze right off being scotch of course, dried dark plums, earth, roasted malt, tobacco, black raisins and barley. Definitely a one and done beer, I'll go with what I have here. A pleasant surprise in any case.