8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
(375ml bottle from Alimentation L'Impact, Quebec City) Pours brown-black with a decent pale cream head that lingers and leaves lace. Aroma of baker's chocolate, milk chocolate, burnt grains with a soft smokiness, slight acidic black coffee, moderate bourbon and some vanilla. Flavour has quite a chocolate core, with a mix of chocolate milk powder and bittersweet baking chocolate, nice moderate plus roast that's dusty and a little ashy or smoky, sweetish malt core but nicely dark fruit-inflected, bourbon is definitely present with some boozy warmth and spirit quality, wood is pretty soft but helps the drydown, and there's a fair whack of floral vanilla that builds into the finish. Finish is fairly dry, ashy grains, bittersweet chocolate, vanilla and some wood, a bit mineral, with a twang of roast acidity. Light to medium body for style, maybe a little thin, with pretty soft carbonation. Impressive brewing here, with the clean crispness of a baltic porter and nicely handled barrels/adjuncts. Enjoyed this!
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from Bottle
on 30 Apr 2021
at 00:12