8/10
β
Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
23rd February 25, Musty, dank, tropical with weed, at SD Taproom, Pacific Beach. Morning session for the Younger. Sat outside in the sun
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Mar 2025
at 13:25
7.9/10
β
Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
SD Taproom Pacific Beach, SanDiego Cali, 23rd February 25. Pours clear golden. Aroma is pithy and citrus, taste is medium bitter, marmalade, a nice warm up for the Pliny the Younger that came next
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Mar 2025
at 13:18
7.9/10
β
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap outside in the sun at SD Taproom, Pacific Beach, San Diego, 23rd February 2025. Pours deep black, aroma is cocoa, roasted malts and citrus. Taste is well balanced, bitter, cocoa and fruity aromatic - good
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Mar 2025
at 11:51
8/10
Taster. A lot of maple, some oak. Taste has more prominent oak, but maple is, of course, more intense. Pretty good.
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Tried
from Draft
on 01 Mar 2025
at 19:46
8/10
Taster. A lot of oak, dark fruits, some chcocolate, complex. Taste is along the same lines, a lot of wood and dark fruits. Interesting. Good for what it is.
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Tried
from Draft
on 01 Mar 2025
at 19:44
8/10
Taster. Coffee, chocolate, vanilla, sweet. Taste is along the same lines. Nicely balanced. Good one.
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Tried
from Draft
on 27 Feb 2025
at 22:25
8.8/10
β
Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 8
12 oz. can, pours jet black with a small tan head. Aroma is super rich and complex, with intense coffee, maple syrup, dark sugars in general, and rich roasted malt. Flavour is rich, with a wonderful marriage of the coffee and maple syrup β the sweetness from the syrup is cut down by the dark roast of the coffee β along with roasted malt and molasses. Not really getting the barrels, other than maybe a slight woodiness to it that dries things out. Complex, harmonious, and surprisingly easy to drink given what it is. Wonderful.
Tried
from Can
from
John's Marketplace - SE Powell
on 26 Feb 2025
at 01:35
8.6/10
β
Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
355mL can. Pours black with a beige head. Very rich maple syrup and coffee, some wood on the nose. The flavour has combined the maple syrup and coffee very well, the maple is dry enough to not be overpowering. The whiskey barrels are present, but definitely in the background of the maple and coffee. This is excellent.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Feb 2025
at 21:38
8/10
Thx, sean w.!
Nice cinnamon, coconut, and American oak. Taste is along the same lines. Very nice job done on balancing adjuncts here. Good one!
8-4-8-4-16 --- Beer merged from original tick of Illusion of Light on 06 May 2023 at 16:29. Original review text: During MBCC 2023 Saturday afternoon session with Matt, Brian, Ryan, Phill, Erik, along with superhelpful, bossy, funny, and sarcastic Rachel, hehe. Aroma: very complex, coconut, chocolate, barrel. Taste: same with additional of cinnamon. Overall: nice one.
Nice cinnamon, coconut, and American oak. Taste is along the same lines. Very nice job done on balancing adjuncts here. Good one!
8-4-8-4-16 --- Beer merged from original tick of Illusion of Light on 06 May 2023 at 16:29. Original review text: During MBCC 2023 Saturday afternoon session with Matt, Brian, Ryan, Phill, Erik, along with superhelpful, bossy, funny, and sarcastic Rachel, hehe. Aroma: very complex, coconut, chocolate, barrel. Taste: same with additional of cinnamon. Overall: nice one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2025
at 20:24
7.4/10
β
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Poured from the tap @ MBCC 2023 green session (finally adding my notes). Dark brown with very minimal beige head. Vanilla, feint coconut and cinnamon, mild bourbon, decent.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Jan 2025
at 03:08