7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7
Can thanks Alex scura non molta schiuma fine bourbon vaniglia lieve etilico cacao morbida nota dolce di vaniglia caffe zuccherato tostature delicate
Tried
from Can
on 26 Mar 2026
at 23:03
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
355mL can, pours black with a medium brown head. Aroma is full of cinnamon and chilis upfront, followed by cocoa, and some subdued barrel notes. Flavour is rich, with lots of chocolate and cinnamon upfront, light vanilla, fairly gentle chilis, and some bourbon in back. Pretty nice addition of adjuncts. The copious adjunct bill hides some of the harshness in the barrel that was dominant in the 2025 version of Catching Moonlight and, to a lesser extent, Lights Out. The palate is a bit sludgy though and could use refinement—this kind of beer benefits from an oilier, silkier palate, which this is far from. All in all, very enjoyable, but not near the peak of past incarnations of this beer.
Tried
from Can
at
Twin Sails Brewing
on 20 Dec 2025
at 06:27
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Black colour, with a dark brown head. The aroma has mainly cinnamon, vanilla, and maybe a bit of ancho if I'm being generous. On the palate, it's got a good body, cinnamon, light vanilla. The ancho sort of slides into the finish a bit. Good bourbon character rounds it out. This is quite good - not peak from a few years ago, but I'm enjoying it.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Dec 2025
at 05:26
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dark brown. No head. Rich umami, cocoa, bourbon aroma. Bourbon on the palate, too, nice richness. Good body. Lowest coconut quotient of any Lights Out so far. Still, solid stout.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Dec 2025
at 05:50
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Ah, Wild Turkey. The best barrels money can buy. Ok, this pours dark. Not much head. The aroma has a slight soy sauce to it - better than kikkoman but not as good as the really good shit. Sort of a heavy-handed bourbon layered over top of that. On the palate, good body. Medium bitterness and sweetness alike. The bourbon isn't as rough. The sugars aren't super rich, but they are decent. Less soy sauce. It's solid - glad to see my house stouts from Twin Sails and Backcountry are back after last year's hiatus.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Dec 2025
at 05:47
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap at Twin Sails, pours jet black with a small tan head. Aroma has plenty of toasted coconut upfront, followed by bourbon barrels, and light dark chocolatey roast. Flavour is intensely coconut-forward, bringing out an impressively deep coconut character, moderate bourbon barrel presence—but that perfumey character does show itself a bit—a touch of roast, and cocoa. Massive coconut bomb with plenty of depth. Somehow, the Catching Moonlight wasn’t great, but throwing tons of coconut in made it really good…? Far from the first incarnations of this beer, but this is a pretty satisfying comeback.
Tried
from Draft
at
Twin Sails Brewing
on 01 Dec 2025
at 01:53
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Twin Sails, pours jet black with a small brown head. Nose has a rather brutal bourbon character, moderate roast, and some cocoa—very abrasive. Flavour is brutal, with massive bourbon character that comes very harsh, moderate roast, iodine, some booze, and a little cocoa. Lacking integration, quite brutal, and possesses none of the elegance that the earlier years had. Not bad but needs a lot of work.
Tried
from Draft
at
Twin Sails Brewing
on 01 Dec 2025
at 01:48
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap at Twin Sails, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Nose is pretty faint—I’d never guess there are NZ hops in here—with some toasted grains but not real hop content. Flavour is quite mineraly, with gentle grassy hop bitterness and toasted grains. Again, no real NZ character and needs more hops in general. It’s okay but pretty underwhelming.
Tried
from Draft
at
Twin Sails Brewing
on 01 Dec 2025
at 01:48
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
On tap at Twin Sails, pours a clear murky orangey blonde with a small white head. Aroma is full of yogurty lacto, artificial lemons, and some sugar. Flavour is a yogurt bomb, with tons of lacto, artificial lemons, and plenty of acidity. Extremely low-quality kettle sour.
Tried
from Draft
at
Twin Sails Brewing
on 01 Dec 2025
at 01:45
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Apr 07, 2026 (8/4/8/4/17=4.1): Poured from 355mL can. Near black with dissipating tan head. Bourbon, molasses, feint coconut and wood backing. Comes together nicely.
Feb 13, 2026 (8/4/8/4/17=4.1): Poured from 355mL can. Near black with dissipating tan head. Nose is bourbon forward. Taste is bourbon with feint toasted coconut and char, light molasses. This can is more bourbon, less coconut and stroopwaffel than 2.5 months prior on tap. Enjoyable and balanced, rounding up to 4.1 this time.
Nov 30, 2025 (8/4/8/4/16=4.0): Poured from the tap @ Twin Sails. Very dark brown with very minimal beige head. Nice toasted coconut with a light stroopwaffel like quality, feint background barrel character, a touch boozy on the finish. Almost want to give this a 4.1, but it's just shy of rounding up.
Feb 13, 2026 (8/4/8/4/17=4.1): Poured from 355mL can. Near black with dissipating tan head. Nose is bourbon forward. Taste is bourbon with feint toasted coconut and char, light molasses. This can is more bourbon, less coconut and stroopwaffel than 2.5 months prior on tap. Enjoyable and balanced, rounding up to 4.1 this time.
Nov 30, 2025 (8/4/8/4/16=4.0): Poured from the tap @ Twin Sails. Very dark brown with very minimal beige head. Nice toasted coconut with a light stroopwaffel like quality, feint background barrel character, a touch boozy on the finish. Almost want to give this a 4.1, but it's just shy of rounding up.
Tried
from Draft
at
Twin Sails Brewing
on 01 Dec 2025
at 01:39