8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
330mL bottle. Pours very dark brown with small beige head. Aroma has a ton of amburana and coffee. Flavour has great woody amburana character, coffee. I almost forgot that bourbon was involved; still there, but the amburana is really driving the beer. Mouthfeel is fairly thick. The amburana really works well, this is great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2024
at 05:43
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
330mL bottle, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma is complex, bringing a nice mix of amburana, coconut, bourbon, and a touch of rum. Flavour has a real nice mix of the amburana and coconut, followed by medium roast coffee, and a touch of bourbon. Real nice use of the amburana and coconut -- I almost forget there's rum and certainly bourbon in here. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2024
at 05:34
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dark brown. Thin head. Aroma is amburana, vanilla and some chocolate, the Blantons showing through a bit as well. The coffee on the nose is not actually appetizing…a good roaster alone is not enough….what makes a great espresso might not be great in a beer. On the palate it’s coming across rich, if sugary, not stouty, even with the added coffee. The amburana is more mellow on the palate, the vanilla a notch brighter. Finishes with a blast of wood and alcohol, then some nice sugars and of course amburana. Actually funny how much amburana dominates, even the Blantons take a distant back seat on this.
Tried
on 27 Oct 2024
at 06:09
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dark brown, with a thin head. Sweet, brown sugar, coffee, alcohol. And lots of bourbon. This is refined. The base is a touch light, but there's no balance issues. The coffee lends this accent, and a bit of acidity, but this is working well for me. That coffee acidity is the one thing that holds it back from exceptional into merely excellent. But it is good shit.
Tried
on 19 Oct 2024
at 04:13
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Poured from 330mL bottle shared with Chris M in Halifax.. Black with small beige head. Woody, mild amburana, coffee, very nice body, solid beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2024
at 00:41
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Hazy pale pink. Decent raspberry nose. Mellow fruit. Medium sharpness to this one.
Tried
on 05 Sep 2024
at 02:08
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Hazy with a thin head. Some apple, cherry...basically a mix of fruit. I like how it's actually pear, plum. Acetic finish, getting harsh.
Tried
on 05 Sep 2024
at 02:07
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pale and opaque. Thin head. Yeasty nose - maybe bottom of the bottle? Lots of sweet malt. Mild and drinkable, but too sweet. This probably needed to sit a while longer - and it might before the bottles are released.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2024
at 02:06
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Purplish colour, with a thin head. Tart, meaty sort of aroma, light cherry. Mild, with nutty cherry pit.
Tried
on 05 Sep 2024
at 02:04
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330mL bottle. Pours deep dark brown with minimal tan head. Aroma has tons of bourbon, roast, chocolate, coffee. Flavour has a lot of bourbon and espresso. These flavours are very well-integrated with each other, but the beer lacks the unifying quality of a solid base beer; the palate is pretty thin and I'm not getting much character from the underlying stout. The use of barrels and adjuncts here is excellent (I especially appreciate the long aging process), but the base is wanting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Sep 2024
at 04:11