1765
Fremont Brewing Company

must say this was the easiest wax seal I've remove in forever. Cheers to muchloveforhops 3 for this one

2024 Vintage pours an effervescent chestnut/mahogany with one pinky of mocha colored head. Viscous, some head retention & lacing

S: Tons of dark fruit, plums, dark cherry, leady tobacco & a little Bourbon

T: Some Baker's chocolate, woody & Tobacco hops, dark cherry, figs, dried plums, bourbon && Dark Chocolate up front, plenty of barrel. More Dark Chocolate, some Caramel, barrel & Bourbon as this beer warms up, dark cherries & salted plums, leafy hops as well, some cinnamon & mocha also. Finishes with Dark chocolate, mocha, plums & Bourbon Cherries

MF: Fairly chewy, slight carbonation, a bit warming at first, skews a touch sweet, some stickyness on the teeth

Just a beautiful sipper that still has plenty of barrel presence. Not perfection, but not much to pit pick either

Draft at the Front Door. Silky black pour with a razor thin ring of beige head. Big boozy aroma, roast malts . Taste is sweet, roasty, chocolate with a hint of coffee. Lots of boozy warmth.

Tried from Draft at The Front Door on 04 Apr 2025 at 20:11

Sampling a 12.68 oz bottle at cellar temp pouring into my snifter. The beer pours a dark black coffee color and sits completely opaque in my glass. A creamy tan head of about 0.5 cm foams up , but fades quickly to an edge layer that remains through my sampling.
Aroma is very interesting and complex with fudge, toffee, cinnamon, bourbon, roasted malt and some coffee grounds. No hop character and its not boozy at all. I do get a little bit of oak wood, almost like a toothpick scent. Seems to be all the things that a blended beer should be.
First sip reveals a medium body with soft spacious carbonation. Almost non-existent bubbles to be honest.
Flavor is similar to the nose advertisements and is certainly malt and barrel driven. I am getting dark fudge and cinnamon up front with some dry oak wood, cinnamon, and brown sugar in the middle , but also some pipe tobacco and sweetened coffee on the finish. The bourbon also lingers on each swallow, but not really and peppery booze bite or warming. Hops are absent too throughout.
This is a great tasting enjoyable beer that features a ton of complex notes. Would drink it again.

2024 Release
Many thx to muchloveforhops3 for this bottle!

A - Pitch black pour with a dense toffee colored lacing ring.

S - Chocolate roast, chocolate char, coffee, Whiskey / Bourbon.

T - Coffee, oak, Whiskey/Bourbon, oak char, some cherry, and finishes on the sweeter boozier side with some lingering chocolate char.

M - Big silky body that leaves a sugary residue on the lips and warming in the back of the throat.

O - This is a pretty fantastic beer!

 

375mL bottle (2024 vintage) into a tulip. Pours a deep rich oily black with a 1/2-finger mocha head. Looks great.

Aroma is strong and rich—bitter roasted dark malt, chocolate, espresso, caramel, vanilla, toasted coconut, charred oak. I can tell this one is going to be pretty special.

Taste is so dense and at the same time smooth and creamy—wow does the first sip pack a punch. All the aromas noted above wrapped in a boozy blanket. More cinnamon as it warms, which is not unwelcome. This is a real dessert beer.

Mouthfeel is heavy, oily, slick, almost sticky. It doesn’t let go. In a good way.

Overall a world-class blended imperial stout with so much more going on than the somewhat understated label would suggest. Outstanding stuff.

Solid. Glad I tried it. An intriguing strong ale blending barleywine and stout with coffee and whiskey notes.

All the other reviews here really nail it. It’s quite easy to drink. Brilliant fruit/whiskey/stout notes. Was very eager for more coffee, but that’s just me.

Can’t passionately recommend but can suggest trying if you like fruit and cinnamon leaning specialty BA stouts / barleywines. No where near the wow-factor of some of their B-bombs and KDS productions.

Cheers

Poured into a Fremont small snifter. Pours a very dark mahogany brown, appearing opaque in the glass with a quarter finger khaki head with great retention and solid lacing. Aroma of dark toasted malt, dark chocolate, vanilla, bourbon and drip coffee. Flavor is dark toasted malt, bourbon, dried plums, coffee and hints of citrus. Medium bodied with light to medium creaminess. An interesting profile for a blended strong ale. Quite bourbon forward and vanilla is a strong element. I'm not sure what a ex-bourbon vanilla extract barrel is (a vanilla barrel used to age bourbon and then on to this?), but that sure is the dominant pair of flavors here. Interestingly, there are also light fruit notes, sometime tasting like berries and a little lemon citrus in the finish. I'm guessing it's from the bourbon, but it is unique to this blend. Coffee is mild and is rather faint, adding a little interest but not much coffee intensity. I liked this blend and wish I had picked up two of these, but fear the coffee has faded a bit with time and will continue to do so with aging. Great as it is but could probably survive in the cellar for quite a while.

375ml bottle picked up at Big Head's Bottle Shop in Missoula, MT
Poured into an Imprint Belgian-style tulip

2024 vintage

P black w/ a tiny tan cap; quick recession to a ring
N huge nose of roasted peanuts (funny enough), booze, barrel, and dark fruit; unique and intriguing
T delicious blend of sharp jammy notes, barrel, blackberry, coffee, nuttiness, and booze; jammy notes last through the finish; excellent stuff; vinous-like (despite no wine barrel aging) and moderately tart, but balanced; each sip begs for another; light vanilla smoothes things out
Mf med bodied w/ med-high carb; smooth on the back end
O really well-executed strong ale blend; another awesome offering from Fremont!

Review date: 03.14.25
Bottle date: 2024

 

This is definitely leaning more to the barleywine side. This is fine. I'm getting smooth caramel with just a hint of char to it at the center of things, though medium roast coffee is also fairly prominent. There are so some really nice fruit notes at work here to, cherry, fig, and a little raisin. I also get a surprisingly strong cinnamon note as well, nothing in the description suggests this should be here so I'm not sure where that's coming from. The barrel notes are a perfect compliment, the vanilla barrels are noticeable. Really nice beer, thanks Ryan!

 

Review: 2310
Name: 1765
Brewery: Fremont Brewing
Location: Seattle, WA
Style: Barrel-Aged Strong Ale
ABV: 13.9%
Canned: 2024
Date: 19 Feb 2025
I saw this beer on tap at my favorite tap house and wanted to bring home a bottle to review. After I had sampled it, I used a tulip glass and served the beer at 46 degrees. The pour created a frothy, airy, dark brown, half-fingered head with no retention. The quick dissipation left no lacing on the glass. The color is dark brown, nearly black with no clarity, charting at SRM 32 with no highlight. The appearance is average for this style. The beer looks more like a stout than a strong ale.
Nosing the glass, I smell chocolate, bourbon, dark roasted coffee, oak, molasse, toffee, caramel, brown sugar, dark roasted malts, bread, light char, a hint of Maillard, and dried cherries. Smelling the beer again, I notice figs, dates, anise, vanilla, alcohol, and a touch of floral esters.
The beer has rich, malty tones, emphasizing fruity, sweet notes.
The flavors start with dark chocolate, the good stuff, not that cheap, run-of-the-mill grocery store product. The cocoa tempers the espresso coffee so it is not bitter with roasty notes, light char, and fire. Sipping the beer again, I marvel at the deft hand the barrel-aging does to develop further the flavors of oak, bourbon, caramel, and sap. The aromas led me to believe this beer was chocked full of dark fruit, and I could taste dried cherries, dates, and figs. The other noticeable flavors are caramel, toffee, brown sugar, vanilla, bready, anise, light floral esters, and malty sweetness.
The mouthfeel is smooth and chewy, finishing warm. The body is medium-plus and has low carbonation.
This beer is a mash-up of style, barleywine, barrel aging, and stouts. It's a delicious beer to savor on this snowy February night.

2024 Vintage: 13.9% ABV

Poured from a 375ml bottle into a snifter at 51 degrees.

Look- Black, opaque, dark brown frothy head, average head retention, below average lacing.

Smell- Vanilla, bourbon, cherry, coffee, high strength of scent.

Taste- Bourbon, cherry, prune, molasses, coffee, cocoa, vanilla, highly sweet, high strength of flavor.

Feel- Between medium and full body, slightly below average carbonation, moderately bitter, syrup like, sticky, highly sweet, highly mouth coating, moderately mouth warming.

Overall- Deep black and opaque with average head retention and below average lacing. The bouquet was vanilla forward with notes of bourbon, cherry and coffee. The flavor was more complex with the vanilla being much more balanced and the bourbon becoming the focal point. Cherry, prune, molasses, coffee and cocoa acted as wonderful complements along with vanilla to provide a well rounded and interesting flavor profile. Feel was sticky and syrup like with a moderate amount of mouth warming property. The complexity and depth increase with each sip as the beer continued to warm. Overall this beer provided a wonderful drinking experience.

2025-01-04
Had this last night with friends. I didn't like it. I got tons of cinnamon, which I do not like in beer. I finished about three ounces of it and let my friends who enjoyed it more than me have it. It's well made and you'll probably dig it if you like or don't mind cinnamon in your beer. If you're like me and you want to avoid that, then avoid this. Not giving it bad scores per se because it's not a bad beer, it's just not my taste.

Fancy pants 375ML bottle with thin black wax, one trailer dripping halfway down the bottle. Another in the increasingly frequent category of barleywine/stout mixes. 2024 release per the label.

In the color wars, a stout always wins, & this is no exception.

1765 – did you know the Holy Roman Empire still existed at this late date? I’d forgotten. All apologies to my excellent high school & college history teachers. In this case of course it refers to the Stamp Act Coffee, which is prominent. Bourbon is of the earthy varietal, carrying some boozy water, but softer than expected. Smaller influences include sweet malts, black licorice, drying wood. Hale but not thick, likely the b-wine influence that makes it a bit more drinkable.

Not quite hitting the pinnacle of all things Fremont, but that’s a high bar. Very good brew.

 

Very, very well-crafted offering from Fremont here, who's barrel program has remained one of my favorites, even more so with these smaller (12.7oz or 16oz) offerings. This one is warm, rich, roasty, and sweet...flavors and aromas of coffee, bourbon, vanilla, dark chocolate, rich malts, underlying dark fruits, toasted caramel, mild spice and nuttiness, notes of smoke, licorice and anise...sticky, mouth-coating, medium-to-full body, low carbonation.