Barrel-Aged Stone Beer 2019
Stone & Wood
- From:
- Stone & Wood
- Australia
- Style:
- Robust Porter
- ABV:
- 7.2%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.99 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 29, 2019
- Added:
- Aug 23, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by JonnoWillsteed from England
3.98/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
3.98/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
The listed 8.8% ABV appears incorrect. My bottle states 7.2% and that's confirmed on the brewery website https://stoneandwood.com.au/grab-your-stone-beer-2019-now/
L- One of the darkest black beers I've seen in a while, barely a photon gets through the glass even held up next to a halogen lamp.
S- Prominent coffee with hints of smoke.
T- Taste follows the smell^, this is really a very deep 'roasty toasty', quite pungent with a meaty hoppy twist coming in on the finish.
F- It's good. The 7.2% ABV compliments the deep flavour very well. Probably ideal for winter, it makes a great slow-sipping beer.
O- This beer made me consider how important it must be for brewers to match the taste with the ABV. A punchy taste but thin ABV is unrewarding, as is a beer that slams you with the ABV but it's taste is lacking. IMO this is an example of where the two elements have been ideally matched, a material part of arriving at that 'Wow, yeah, this is something special'. Having lived through earlier decades 80/90s etc of CO2 powered tap-draft Guinness and concluding 'If all black beer is like this I never want to see another' it's only now in the last 3-4 years I'm coming to see the genuine deep allure well made ones can have. And this without doubt is one such beer that confirms what can be done to achieve a great result.
Very good, a superb beer, and I'd happily drink it again. 330ml bottle, BB: 17/02/2020. Bought from Beerhawk/UK
Nov 29, 2019L- One of the darkest black beers I've seen in a while, barely a photon gets through the glass even held up next to a halogen lamp.
S- Prominent coffee with hints of smoke.
T- Taste follows the smell^, this is really a very deep 'roasty toasty', quite pungent with a meaty hoppy twist coming in on the finish.
F- It's good. The 7.2% ABV compliments the deep flavour very well. Probably ideal for winter, it makes a great slow-sipping beer.
O- This beer made me consider how important it must be for brewers to match the taste with the ABV. A punchy taste but thin ABV is unrewarding, as is a beer that slams you with the ABV but it's taste is lacking. IMO this is an example of where the two elements have been ideally matched, a material part of arriving at that 'Wow, yeah, this is something special'. Having lived through earlier decades 80/90s etc of CO2 powered tap-draft Guinness and concluding 'If all black beer is like this I never want to see another' it's only now in the last 3-4 years I'm coming to see the genuine deep allure well made ones can have. And this without doubt is one such beer that confirms what can be done to achieve a great result.
Very good, a superb beer, and I'd happily drink it again. 330ml bottle, BB: 17/02/2020. Bought from Beerhawk/UK
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