Creme Brew-Lee
Beau's All Natural Brewing Company
- From:
- Beau's All Natural Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Sweet / Milk Stout
- ABV:
- 7.2%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.74 | pDev: 4.81%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 05, 2025
- Added:
- Sep 22, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Brewed with chocolate malt, oats and roasted barley, Beau’s Crème Brew-lée Dessert Stout is decadent, dark, and dreamy. It satisfies on those long cold nights with a winter warmer that is both drink and dessert. Just unwrap, pop the crown, then sit back and savour.
History and Style
The beer bottle’s gold foil label alludes to the traditional cracking of caramelized sugar on crème brulée for dessert, but is also a nod to Kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with silver and gold. The time-honoured practice renders the glittering new creation more valuable and treasured: a thoughtful sentiment for the 2023 holiday season.
Tasting Notes
Pours dark brown with lingering tan foam. Aromas are of caramel and burnt sugar, with notes of chocolate, a hint of vanilla, and coffee. Flavours are chocolate and roasted malt, with balanced sweetness. Medium mouthfeel with smooth creaminess. Finishes with slight alcohol warmth.
Fun Facts:
Dessert and pastry stouts were newly added to the list of official BJCP beer styles in 2023
The paper wrap is a throw-back to a series of beers Beau’s released in Spring 2014 for a special barrel aged feature at the LCBO
MALTS 2-row, Flaked barley, Flaked oats, Crystal malt, Chocolate malt, Roasted barley
HOPS Fuggles
YEAST Ale yeast
IBU’S 20
FG 2.5P
IDEAL SERVING TEMPERATURE 9-14 C
SUGGESTED GLASSWARE Tulip
History and Style
The beer bottle’s gold foil label alludes to the traditional cracking of caramelized sugar on crème brulée for dessert, but is also a nod to Kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with silver and gold. The time-honoured practice renders the glittering new creation more valuable and treasured: a thoughtful sentiment for the 2023 holiday season.
Tasting Notes
Pours dark brown with lingering tan foam. Aromas are of caramel and burnt sugar, with notes of chocolate, a hint of vanilla, and coffee. Flavours are chocolate and roasted malt, with balanced sweetness. Medium mouthfeel with smooth creaminess. Finishes with slight alcohol warmth.
Fun Facts:
Dessert and pastry stouts were newly added to the list of official BJCP beer styles in 2023
The paper wrap is a throw-back to a series of beers Beau’s released in Spring 2014 for a special barrel aged feature at the LCBO
MALTS 2-row, Flaked barley, Flaked oats, Crystal malt, Chocolate malt, Roasted barley
HOPS Fuggles
YEAST Ale yeast
IBU’S 20
FG 2.5P
IDEAL SERVING TEMPERATURE 9-14 C
SUGGESTED GLASSWARE Tulip
Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
3.87/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.87/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Dec 5 2025
Dec 05, 2025
Reviewed by talisen-crw from Canada (ON)
3.75/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
At my lady Pamela's house; canned and chilled, from my favourite LCBO at The Roundhouse Centre in nearby Windsor. My second beer from the Vankleek Hill, ON brewery.
Feb 16, 2025
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.68/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.68/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
600 mL paper-wrapped bottle from the LCBO; I don't see a packaging date. Served barely chilled.
Pours a dark brownish-black with glints of reddish-fuchsia when held to the light; a deliberately rough pour stirs up half a finger of tight, foamy, khaki-coloured head that seeps away within a minute or two. By that point, it has been reduced to a creamy collar of froth that sticks around considerably longer; a small ring of lace clings to the glass above. Icing sugar, cocoa powder, cherries and caramel on the nose, with hints of vanilla extract and marshmallow.
It's palatable, but a little on the sweet side, maybe even a bit cloying. Milk chocolate, marshmallow, cocoa powder and caramel come through, with notes of vanilla and brown sugar not far behind. There's a weak note of coffee bitterness on the back end, but it's a brief reprieve - the finish holds only more vanilla and sugar, which lingers into the aftertaste. Medium-full in body, with gentle carbonation and a soft, smooth, somewhat fluffy mouthfeel that might be the highlight of this session. Fair drinkability for a strong-ish milk stout, but 600 mL is more than I really needed.
Final Grade: 3.68, a passable B grade. Beau's Crème Brew-Lée is alright, but I don't think the crème brûlée gimmick was pulled off all that effectively. As a standard sweet stout, there's nothing especially wrong with this, but it's an underwhelming pastry stout, and at 10 bucks a bottle I wouldn't call it particularly good value, either. I'm still going to give this an unenthusiastic thumbs up - if you enjoy sweet stouts and have a sawbuck burning a hole in your pocket, you may enjoy this more than I did. However, I don't feel a need to revisit it any time soon, if ever.
May 16, 2024Pours a dark brownish-black with glints of reddish-fuchsia when held to the light; a deliberately rough pour stirs up half a finger of tight, foamy, khaki-coloured head that seeps away within a minute or two. By that point, it has been reduced to a creamy collar of froth that sticks around considerably longer; a small ring of lace clings to the glass above. Icing sugar, cocoa powder, cherries and caramel on the nose, with hints of vanilla extract and marshmallow.
It's palatable, but a little on the sweet side, maybe even a bit cloying. Milk chocolate, marshmallow, cocoa powder and caramel come through, with notes of vanilla and brown sugar not far behind. There's a weak note of coffee bitterness on the back end, but it's a brief reprieve - the finish holds only more vanilla and sugar, which lingers into the aftertaste. Medium-full in body, with gentle carbonation and a soft, smooth, somewhat fluffy mouthfeel that might be the highlight of this session. Fair drinkability for a strong-ish milk stout, but 600 mL is more than I really needed.
Final Grade: 3.68, a passable B grade. Beau's Crème Brew-Lée is alright, but I don't think the crème brûlée gimmick was pulled off all that effectively. As a standard sweet stout, there's nothing especially wrong with this, but it's an underwhelming pastry stout, and at 10 bucks a bottle I wouldn't call it particularly good value, either. I'm still going to give this an unenthusiastic thumbs up - if you enjoy sweet stouts and have a sawbuck burning a hole in your pocket, you may enjoy this more than I did. However, I don't feel a need to revisit it any time soon, if ever.
Reviewed by Cramshawbar from Canada (ON)
3.44/5 rDev -8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
3.44/5 rDev -8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
Curious of this one. Beau's is not exactly renowned for stouts, let alone dessert ones.
Pours thick and dark with a nice enough head. The nose is of coffee, malt and perhaps chocolate.
Creme brulee? Ha, ha, ha! Nothing like it whatsoever! Tastes more like a weak Belgian stout meets cheap trappist. What a real life click bait.
Wow. Shameless. Nothing desserty about this beer in general.
Is it bad? No, not horrible, but not good either. But at least you don't taste the negativity too much while it's cold.
A disappointing attempt at....whatever they were trying to go for here.
Dec 18, 2023Pours thick and dark with a nice enough head. The nose is of coffee, malt and perhaps chocolate.
Creme brulee? Ha, ha, ha! Nothing like it whatsoever! Tastes more like a weak Belgian stout meets cheap trappist. What a real life click bait.
Wow. Shameless. Nothing desserty about this beer in general.
Is it bad? No, not horrible, but not good either. But at least you don't taste the negativity too much while it's cold.
A disappointing attempt at....whatever they were trying to go for here.
Reviewed by taxandbeerguy from Canada (ON)
3.6/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.6/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
600 ml bottle purchased from the LCBO for $9.95 CDN. Served cold into a chalice.
Appearance - Very dark brown in color and eliminates light. A very small half finger of tan head is poured and is almost entirely gone inside a minute.
Smell - A touch of coffee, some burnt sugar and a vague marshmallow-esque aroma with traces of caramel. Nose is subdued when the beer is cold.
Taste - A little chocolate, some general sugary qualities. Vanilla is there but again pretty subdued.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied, smooth, low carbonation, easy to drink. Slick. Warming booziness in the back of the throat.
Overall - Tasty enough, but definitely let this one warm up as the flavors intensify by a significant multiple as the brew warms up. A good but likely one-off from Beau's for me.
Nov 05, 2023Appearance - Very dark brown in color and eliminates light. A very small half finger of tan head is poured and is almost entirely gone inside a minute.
Smell - A touch of coffee, some burnt sugar and a vague marshmallow-esque aroma with traces of caramel. Nose is subdued when the beer is cold.
Taste - A little chocolate, some general sugary qualities. Vanilla is there but again pretty subdued.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied, smooth, low carbonation, easy to drink. Slick. Warming booziness in the back of the throat.
Overall - Tasty enough, but definitely let this one warm up as the flavors intensify by a significant multiple as the brew warms up. A good but likely one-off from Beau's for me.
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