D's Nuts
To Øl

To Øl D's Nuts, 12% ABV. Pours black with a three finger brown head that left lots of lacing. Nose is an incredible chocolate/cocoa and lactose, taste follows with some sweetness and moderate bitter close. Not detecting much nut flavor. Excellent mouthfeel, overall excellent. With a bit less bitterness this would be outstanding. Nose is reminiscent of Samuel Smith's Organic Chocolate Stout.

A: Poured into a snifter to a black beer which is topped by a dense and slightly rocky finger and a half of tan head
S: This is an interesting nose. It doesn't really scream stout to me. The stout aromas I'd expect to find are hiding behind a huge amount of hazelnuts.
T: Taste is quite roasty with some hints of burnt wood and smoke along with some dark roasted coffee. hazelnuts work to balance a little. On the finish there's more burnt sugar, smoke, and roasted malts with hints of coffee.
M: This beer has a full body with a slightly silky feel. Carbonation is light but adequate for the style while the beer has a drying finish.
O: Overall this is an interesting beer. At first I thought I held onto it for too long, but after checking out other reviews it seems like this one has held up just fine to the time. I wouldn't mind trying a fresh one since this one is at least 4 years old at this point.

Best stout I've ever had. Someone said it tastes more like 8% abv. I agree it doesn't taste like 12% as it says, but not quite that low. It's dangerously drinkable. So many American craft breweries are churning out fancy, special-release high-ABV beers, but most of their stuff just tastes like beer with whiskey poured into it. This is properly tempered. Tons of hazelnut flavor, as promised. I knocked down one point on the look because the head wasn't very large. It also doesn't look as heavy as it is.

Really interesting company. It was gifted to me, and neither the gifter nor I knew if it was Danish or Belgian after reading the label. It's a Danish company without a sole brewery. They "borrow" empty spaces in existing breweries. This was made in a Belgian brewery that rents out space to beer-makers! The more you know!

 

 

Poured into a Fremont small snifter. Pours nearly black, appearing opaque black in the glass with a fine two finger brown head with great retention and thick, but slippery lacing. Aroma is semi-sweet dark toasted malt, vanilla and mixed nuts; really nutty. Flavor starts with sweet dark malt, hazelnuts, other mixed nut character with even a little peanut butter, vanilla and a hint of mild chocolate. An astringent, mildly tart and bitter flavor builds into an odd lightly tart, astringent finish. Quite nice moderate creaminess with great mouth feel. Well this starts great, with a beautiful blend of nuts flavors, with authentic hazelnut and rich dark malt, but what is that flavor in the finish? I'm seeing some people describe this as "burnt", but it does not resemble malt char, more like the estery character of burnt plastic. It is a little tart, which made me think this might be compromised, but it appears to be common to all reviews here. The astringency reminds me of the bitter fibers under the shell in pecans and hazelnuts, which have a similar flavor. This looks and smells great, and the overall flavor is good, but the finish is a bit off-putting. Each sip I wanted to have a finish that was a rich and nutty as the aroma and start. A flawed, otherwise great stout. Rare mixed feelings from a beer from this great gypsy brewer.

 

This beer was a hazelnut explosion but not in the natella way but in the DE shelled hazelnut way !! killer name killer beer

hard to believe this is as strong as it is, not that the potency of this has anything to do with defining it or anything, it just drinks more like an eight than a twelve, personally anyway. it pours awesome from the bottle, a huge rising creamy micro bubbled head, several inches high and settling only slowly over the near black liquid. its pretty for sure. i smell a ton of hazelnut, some toasted and predictably nutty and natural, some less so, more of the syrup some folks add to coffee drinks. there is an odd astringency to this that interrupts the mellow, earthy, roasted elements, it comes out of nowhere and both me and my friend wonder if it is intentional, like, is this starting to go sour, is there some lightstruck element at play with the green bottle, whats happening here??? i dont get a bacterial infection or anything, but there is a not quite tartness that doesnt belong dont reckon. i think the hazelnut flavor is heavy but real, and its awesome with the simple but robust dark malt base, specialty roast and coffee hues, bitter for sure, nutty which is a weir descriptor for a beer with nuts in it, but its true. earthy and hearty and sort of breakfasty for whatever reason. thin for its strength and depth of flavor, awesome carbonation for the style too though, so it goes both ways on feel. overall i thought this was really cool, and while it surely lacks the richness and refinement of the best beers featuring hazelnuts out there in the world, i think it offers something new and is another weird, intriguing, and delicious beer from these guys, who have never once bored me with a release. it could be better, but its pretty neat stuff. seems to be begging for a barrel...

Poured from a 12.7 oz (?) bottle into a stout glass

Pours obsidian and opaque with a fantastic, lingering, dark tan and foamy head. Excellent thickness despite the rather high ABV. This is a great-looking beer.

Aromas are varied, complex, and inviting, albeit a shade to the "sweet" end of the spectrum. Hazelnut, vanilla, caramel, chocolate, and toasted grain are all there. However, as the temperature comes up, some hops join the nose.

The flavor profile is elusive, with a long list of notes. Nuts, oats, chocolate, coffee, tobacco, toffee/caramel, vanilla, bourbon, char, brown bread, dark fruit, and woody notes all take their turns in what could easily have been a messy cacophony but ends up being remarkably cohesive under the circumstances. Notwithstanding the overly sweet nose, the flavor has some hoppy and openly-astringent lactic acid notes that make this a well-balanced brew. The booze is very noticeable, but isn't a burn or solvent note at all.

The brew has good carbonation, and the hops and astringency keep it from being too cloying, though it does get dangerously close to sticky at times.

This is one of the more unique brews I've had lately. It's a mix of multiple styles--part stout, part porter, part brown ale, part (???). It's tasty and definitely worthy of a try.

 

Really odd nutty aroma, but nice strong roasted but flavor, silky feel.

375 ml bottle into snifter, best before 1/3/2027. Pours fairly opaque dark brown/black color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and rocky khaki head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a small cap that lasts. Thick soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of huge milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, hazelnuts, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, and toasted brown/dark bread; with light notes of molasses, smoke, char, tobacco, dark fruit, herbal, pine, and roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, hazelnuts, and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of huge milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, hazelnuts, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, and toasted brown/dark bread; with light notes of molasses, smoke, char, tobacco, dark fruit, herbal, pine, and roast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate pine/herbal/spicy hop and roast/char bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, hazelnuts, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, toasted brown/dark bread, smoke, char, herbal, pine, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, hazelnuts, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a nice roast/hop bitter/sweet balance, and minimal acrid/astringent roast/hop flavors after the finish. Light dryness from hop/char bitterness, increasing through the glass. Medium carbonation and full body; with a smooth, creamy/bready/grainy/silky, and lightly slick/sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with a mild warmth lingering after the finish. Overall this is an awesome flavored imperial brown ale! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, hazelnuts, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the huge ABV. Big levels of hazelnut flavors, with great balanced rich malt complexity. Just wish it wasnt as increasingly bitter/drying from the hop/roasted notes; but I am sure some age will smooth that out. A very enjoyable and delicious offering.

Black body with an intensely dense, creamy, light tan head. Incredible aroma of toffee, vanilla, nuts; tobacco; leather. A grand medley of flavors: milk chocolate; cocoa; coffee; mint; bourbon; phenols. Heavy bodied yet luscious and smooth on the palate; a little hot with the booze; sweet but not cloyingly so; velvety.

A most amazing and delicious dark brew. The hazelnut component adds some interesting twists to the beer, bring out some nice contrasts with the rich, sweet, dark grain base. Hazelnut tannins and the relatively high ABV might seem to clash at times with the sweet malt base, but overall things pretty much come together into a satisfying dark ale whole. Complexity and depth galore, all wrapped up in a dark, rich, spicy/sweet package...

 

 

With the depth and richness of imperial stout but with the flavor profile of an English nut brown ale, this clever and chaotic ale celebrates the beer's nutty nature to a very appetizing degree.

D's Nuts not only bring a chuckle, but also nestles in the glass with a chocolaty brown hue. Hazy and heady, the beer's modest sepia stained head releases savory nutty aromas that swoon the nose. Chocolate, coffee, toffee and a curious potpourri perfume precedes a rich taste of those toasty, sweet and caramelized slather of the tongue.

With the malt sweetness firmly in tact, the ale washes the tongue with decadent dark chocolate, milk chocolate and a toffee and caramel medley. Its nutty taste is front and center with everything from pistachio to walnut with candied almond, pecan and cashew becoming no stretch of the imagination at all. Trailing with a woodsy spice, a peppery taste is accompanied with broad bitterness, pine and a collection of cinnamon, nutmeg and a general allspice array.

Full bodied but far from cloying, the clever ale places a collection of nutiness on the throat with the soft tannic bite that their woodsiness brings. Simmering alcohol warmth tucks into the lasting sweetness and finishes like chocolate cocktails. A trial of kaluha, rum and chocolate covered pecan offer lasting impressions in a medium long aftertaste. Ok, you can let the laughter go now.