Reserve Sundae
Carton Brewing Company
- From:
- Carton Brewing Company
- New Jersey, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 9.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.25 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 28, 2019
- Added:
- Jul 26, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
4.25/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Partly made of their Cosmonaut Sundae Stout and partly of an Old Barton barrel aged Imperial Stout, Carton's chocolate, walnut and cherry dessert beer takes on "reserve" status with a limited release and those coveted Kentucky bourbon barrels.
Jet black and layered with a simmering mocha froth, the onyx Reserve Sundae greets the nose with a robust roasty, toasty and fully charred perfume. A spicy of wood and whisky tingle the nose while coming in quickly with chocolate, cherry and vanilla taking in an accompanying role. Deeply carbonized sweetness carries a malty-dry taste of molasses, sorghum and chocolate sweetness with an tremendously roasty sense of savor.
As the stout spreads across the tongue, it releases most of its sweetness while highlighting the sharp roast, burnt toast, smoked chocolate, walnut and strong char that's found in their standard Sundae Stout. Its softer vanilla, cherry, and milk chocolate flavors are subtle on the middle palate and acquiesce to the piquant spice of bourbon, charred oak and toasted coconut that also starts to subside on the late palate. Bitter and a lightly acrid roast does much more than balance the sundae sweetness but shows an overall scorched linger in the throat.
Full bodied on the palate overall, the sharpness and slight ash-like state of the beer links up with boozy spice for a drying sensation that would suggest a milder body. Laced with bitter baker's chocolate and a campfire whimsy, the aftertaste is long, stubborn and prickly with whisky spice.
Nov 28, 2019Jet black and layered with a simmering mocha froth, the onyx Reserve Sundae greets the nose with a robust roasty, toasty and fully charred perfume. A spicy of wood and whisky tingle the nose while coming in quickly with chocolate, cherry and vanilla taking in an accompanying role. Deeply carbonized sweetness carries a malty-dry taste of molasses, sorghum and chocolate sweetness with an tremendously roasty sense of savor.
As the stout spreads across the tongue, it releases most of its sweetness while highlighting the sharp roast, burnt toast, smoked chocolate, walnut and strong char that's found in their standard Sundae Stout. Its softer vanilla, cherry, and milk chocolate flavors are subtle on the middle palate and acquiesce to the piquant spice of bourbon, charred oak and toasted coconut that also starts to subside on the late palate. Bitter and a lightly acrid roast does much more than balance the sundae sweetness but shows an overall scorched linger in the throat.
Full bodied on the palate overall, the sharpness and slight ash-like state of the beer links up with boozy spice for a drying sensation that would suggest a milder body. Laced with bitter baker's chocolate and a campfire whimsy, the aftertaste is long, stubborn and prickly with whisky spice.
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