Some People Are Immune To Good Banana Maple Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Maple Stout
Evil Twin Brewing

 

I am reviewing a 3 year old bottle. So I didn’t change my rating. Pours dark black smell the abv not much else.taste the abv some sweetness from the maple no banana taste left. Not bad better when fresh.

 

Collaboration between two very good breweries that I expect to be mediocre if it follows normal collab protocol. 22 oz. bottle split with my wife.

Lots of good words on the label & the beer looks vaguely reddish dark as it flows forth. The nose is heavy on the bourbon & maple, with the banana taking a distant third. Sounds ideal.

Some People Are Immune to a Good Banana Stout – Maple Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout is the longest beer name I’ve ever typed out. A stout stout base is suffused with liberal helpings of bourbon, making the beer feel much boozier than it is. Earthy maple & oaked char, with a finish of chocolate & faint boiled plantain. Hits the sweet spot between drinkable & big belly-filling stout.

Really nice beer that rubs suggestively up against excellent.

Poured into a Fremont small snifter. Pours a very dark mahogany brown, appearing opaque black in the glass with a thin dark khaki head that dissipates to patches with light lacing. Aroma of dark toasted malt, cocoa, maple syrup, molasses and a hint of banana and bourbon. Flavor is dark toasted malt, molasses, dark chocolate, bourbon, a hint of caramel, maple syrup and a bare hint of banana, which does become more clear in the finish with lingering maple and ripe banana. Medium bodied with light to moderate creaminess. Rather what I expected from Evil Twin, a busy, but interesting and full bodied big stout. There's a lot going on here, but even the potentially dominating flavors of bourbon, maple and banana are restrained enough to work well together. This borders on a pastry stout with suggestions of bourbon soaked banana bread in the finish. The banana is subdued at first, I almost thought "banana?", but there is a clear and authentic ripe banana character to the finish. I never pass up Evil Twin stouts and this one was thoroughly enjoyable.

 

its been awhile since i had a massive evil twin stout with a bunch of stuff in it, so i said what the heck and spent close to 20 bucks on this one this weekend. its a fine specimen, the banana makes it weird, but its sweet and boozy and huge, maybe more novelty than something i want to drink a whole lot of, and i am a little bit wondering if i should have just gotten the regular maple edition without the fruit. this is highly viscous, a motor oil texture to it with a short deep brown head, the beer is almost black, high shine, and leggy in the glass. it smells very alcoholic, with a little mushy banana character to it and a lot of chocolate and maple, a hint of smoke and char to the malt and the barrel respectively, lots of dark low end here. the flavor is pleasantly sweet for awhile, but it gets intense as it warms, hotly alcoholic in the finish too, wow this is a fire breather even when its cold. lots of maple here, a little artificial maybe, but its just intense, dark chocolate and even black licorice all over it too, some whiskey sweetness and oak, light vanilla, raisin, and smoke as well. the banana has an almost cooked character, stewed and concentrated, a little pithy, almost all at the very end, nice with the maple and the chocolate notes, but not over the top either, well integrated. i like the proportion, its hard to want a banana flavored beer and then be upset when its too banana forward, i think they got it right here. love all the maple, but i was glad to be sharing this bottle a couple of ways. im sure the maple whiskey barrels are expensive, but this still felt overpriced as i sipped it...

 

Poured from bottle and shared with two buddies. Deep deep brown with almost a glug of a pour. Smell is sweet banana and barrel. Flavor is heavy roasted malts and sweetness from the maple. You really get a lot of banana as it warms. I find a lot of these 'banana stouts' don't have a lot of banana. This one is just right and not overpowering. Feel is a thick mouthfeel. Really enjoyed it.