Bourbon Barrel Aged Dark Star: Coffee Edition | Fremont Brewing Company

4.7/5  rDev +4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75

4.44/5  rDev -1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

4.5/5  rDev -0.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

4.43/5  rDev -2%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

Look: Poured into a Goose Island snifter. About a cm of head. Looks like espresso crema.
Smell: Lots of coffee! Not a lot of bourbon smell though.
Taste: Again coffee. Chocolate too. Reminds me a lot of KBS. Very smooth. Bourbon comes through over time.
Feel: I think a little thin for a big beer like this. Warming feel.
Overall: Very enjoyable beer.

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4.5/5  rDev -0.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

4.6/5  rDev +1.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

4.58/5  rDev +1.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

4.57/5  rDev +1.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5

4.5/5  rDev -0.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

4.18/5  rDev -7.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

4.5/5  rDev -0.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

4.85/5  rDev +7.3%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75

4.12/5  rDev -8.8%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4

4.35/5  rDev -3.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25

4.5/5  rDev -0.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

4.68/5  rDev +3.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75

I receive an abundance of Fremont bottles in the last year, both from scavenging around Denver during GABF, and from a regular trade partner on BA. I've let many of them sit for a bit - and I'm now regretting that. Whatever made me sit on beer, I'll never know.

Dark Star Coffee is a gem of a beer. It features a rich chocolate-coffee nose and a creamy taste and mouth feel. There is a wealth of oak and bourbon to the taste, and I never thought for a moment that it was even sort of thin - the oatmeal stout characteristics of the beer are strong, resulting in that amazing sweet, creamy, rich, dense, complex taste and mouth feel. When chilly the beer even has a bit of a dark fruit note to it. This smooths right out in tremendous coffee - no bitterness or acidity of note whatsoever.

I regret sitting on this one - it's nothing short of fantastic. Dark Star is such an underrated, undervalued beer, and I really respect that Fremont has kept the quality high, given the quantity they are cranking out. The differences between variants, too, is noteworthy - they're all their own unique beast and definitely require review.

Damn fine, Fremont - I'm a big fan. Keep up the amazing work.

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4.5/5  rDev -0.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

4.5/5  rDev -0.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

4.52/5  rDev 0%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

3.78/5  rDev -16.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

4.69/5  rDev +3.8%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75

4.28/5  rDev -5.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.25

4.5/5  rDev -0.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

4.42/5  rDev -2.2%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

4.6/5  rDev +1.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5