Dark Secret - Coffee (Barrel Aged)
BrickStone Restaurant & Brewery
- From:
- BrickStone Restaurant & Brewery
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 13%
- Score:
- 93
- Avg:
- 4.28 | pDev: 5.37%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Apr 21, 2019
- Added:
- Dec 15, 2014
- Wants:
- 3
- Gots:
- 4
SCORE
93
Outstanding
93
Outstanding
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by darktronica from Indiana
3.98/5 rDev -7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
3.98/5 rDev -7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Based on the Dark Secret reputation, I was a bit let down by this one. To my tastes, the coffee is overextracted, resulting in some pyrazines that lend a bell pepper character that distracts from the base beer being so lovely.
Apr 21, 2019
Reviewed by Hopheadjeffery from Illinois
4.19/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
4.19/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Tasted in a snifter from draft at Whole Foods Market on March 29, 2019. Look is dark brown with a foamy tan head. Smell is coffee. Taste is coffee and smoke. Feel is oily.
Apr 11, 2019
Reviewed by cjgator3 from Florida
4.59/5 rDev +7.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
4.59/5 rDev +7.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
Enjoyed at a bottle share, my favorite beer of the night. Thick, dark, chewy, sweet, tons of barrel - everything I'm looking for in a barrel aged stout. Excellent!
May 22, 2016
Reviewed by BlackBeerPirate from Illinois
4.16/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.16/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Taste: thick, barrel woody notes, coffee, spicy, tangy black dry malts, syrupy mouth-feel. Mellow barrel aged malty nose. Black and opaque with a dark tan head, very delicate lace.
Full body. Warm alcohol finish meets coffee brewed notes.
May 10, 2016Full body. Warm alcohol finish meets coffee brewed notes.
Reviewed by RMelyon from Illinois
4.79/5 rDev +11.9%
look: 5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
4.79/5 rDev +11.9%
look: 5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
Very well executed, supremely thick barrel aged coffee stout. A little sweeter and better than BCBCS, but that may be because this one's mellowed out in the last 6 months since I got it. A++, would drink again. Only thing is, we had this on the same day as Coffee Dinosmores, and I liked that more. Maybe I'm just over barrel aged beers. Haven't had one that truly wowed me in a while.
May 07, 2016
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