4383
Kane Brewing Company
- From:
- Kane Brewing Company
- New Jersey, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- Not listed
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.52 | pDev: 2.88%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 17, 2025
- Added:
- Aug 29, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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As our Anniversary approached we began to taste through our barrel stock to find the perfect blend to help celebrate 12 years. We ultimately chose two different base beers that were aged in a combination of four different brands of bourbon barrels. The beers began as two rich, high gravity Imperial Stouts—one brewed with Vermont Maple Syrup, the second with a touch of lactose. These two Imperial Stouts were aged in a combination of Buffalo Trace Stagg Jr., Heaven Hill, Buffalo Trace Weller and Buffalo Trace Blanton's bourbon barrels. The average age for this blend was 15 months. Once these barrels were blended into stainless, they were left to cold condition for close to a month to allow the flavors to mellow and come together. Then we conditioned the blend on a mix of cacao nibs from Ghana and Haiti and the highest quality vanilla beans from Brazil, Madagascar and East Timor. Finally, we conditioned the chocolate and vanilla blend on a combination of fresh and lightly toasted shaved coconut. 4383 pours a deep, dark brown, with a rich, mocha head. This full bodied, Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout blends the richest fudge brownie flavors from the cacao, with the smooth and creamy sweetness of the vanilla beans and coconut. All these flavors are layered on a base that pulls burnt sugar and caramel from the Maple Syrup that can stand up to 15 months of aging in bourbon soaked oak.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
4.49/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.49/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Blending a couple of their favorite stouts and aging them in multiple bourbon barrels; additions of chocolate, maple and coconut shows that if it's your birthday you can indeed have it all. Happy 4,383rd birthday Kane Brewing!
Pouring lusciously black and with dark espresso margins, the tepidly frothy stout clings to the glass as a host of spicy dessert aromas abound- chocolate, coffee, maple, nuttiness, sweet caramelized and toasted oak all add to the roasty and robust perfume ahead of a sweeter taste of blackstrap molasses, brown sugar, dark chocolate and the roundness of vanilla. And that's just the start.
As the stout hits the middle palate, the espresso roast, candied walnut, cocoa and coconut all carry and slightly more robust and pleasantly burnt character while the maple and vanilla help to sooth the roast. A followup of smoky oak, caramel, cherry and soothing, simmering bourbon warm the senses.
Full bodied, nearly dessert-sweet and trending spicy with booze, the late taste shows a woodsy bitterness that welcomes the bourbon warmth with a peppery balance and a long linger of maple wrapped bitter chocolate to close.
Dec 21, 2023Pouring lusciously black and with dark espresso margins, the tepidly frothy stout clings to the glass as a host of spicy dessert aromas abound- chocolate, coffee, maple, nuttiness, sweet caramelized and toasted oak all add to the roasty and robust perfume ahead of a sweeter taste of blackstrap molasses, brown sugar, dark chocolate and the roundness of vanilla. And that's just the start.
As the stout hits the middle palate, the espresso roast, candied walnut, cocoa and coconut all carry and slightly more robust and pleasantly burnt character while the maple and vanilla help to sooth the roast. A followup of smoky oak, caramel, cherry and soothing, simmering bourbon warm the senses.
Full bodied, nearly dessert-sweet and trending spicy with booze, the late taste shows a woodsy bitterness that welcomes the bourbon warmth with a peppery balance and a long linger of maple wrapped bitter chocolate to close.
Reviewed by Tony210 from New Jersey
4.71/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.71/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Pours pitch black, very thick and viscous, no head. Amazing aroma of chocolate fudge, sweet vanilla, a little boozy, great bourbon barrel essence. Flavor is chocolate ganache, creamy vanilla, cream of coconut. Bourbon barrel melds the flavors together nicely. Dry flavorful. Light carbonation adds to a creamy texture. Overall a phenomenal offering from Kane’s barrel aging program. Glad I bought several.
11/22/23
500 ml bottle
4.75 rating
2/6/26 update: coconut has faded slightly but still has the coconut cream flavor and body, loads of chocolate. So good.
Nov 23, 202311/22/23
500 ml bottle
4.75 rating
2/6/26 update: coconut has faded slightly but still has the coconut cream flavor and body, loads of chocolate. So good.
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