Skeleton Key - Coffee and Vanilla
Bellwoods Brewery
- From:
- Bellwoods Brewery
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial Pastry Stout
- ABV:
- 10.9%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.49 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 19, 2021
- Added:
- Oct 19, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Released annually, Skeleton Key is our rum barrel aged imperial stout, spiced with a mélange of ginger, all spice, black pepper, cardamom, cinnamon, star anise, nutmeg, juniper berries, and vanilla. Because we do our best to be multi-faceted (in life, and in brewing) we upped the ante with this 2018 version and pulled off enough beer on blending day to make 2 additional variants. Must I remind you what the spice of life is?
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
3.49/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.49/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
2018 bottle.
This one pours a fairly dark black color, with a small head, and not much lacing.
This smells like roasty, burnt coffee, peppercorns, ginger, cinnamon, other vague spicing, cocoa powder, and rum.
The coffee has deteriorated a touch on this one - it's kinda burnt and peppery tasting, but that could my mind playing tricks on me with all the other spices that are in this one. I want a bit more vanilla - it's nearly completely subsumed by the spice bag in this one. The regular Skeleton Key is definitely better than this one.
This is a little bit thin, but nicely creamy, with barely any booziness to it.
This wasn't my favorite variant of this beer. The regular Skeleton Key, or even the Coffee variant from 2017 without the new addition of vanilla are better than this one.
Oct 19, 2021This one pours a fairly dark black color, with a small head, and not much lacing.
This smells like roasty, burnt coffee, peppercorns, ginger, cinnamon, other vague spicing, cocoa powder, and rum.
The coffee has deteriorated a touch on this one - it's kinda burnt and peppery tasting, but that could my mind playing tricks on me with all the other spices that are in this one. I want a bit more vanilla - it's nearly completely subsumed by the spice bag in this one. The regular Skeleton Key is definitely better than this one.
This is a little bit thin, but nicely creamy, with barely any booziness to it.
This wasn't my favorite variant of this beer. The regular Skeleton Key, or even the Coffee variant from 2017 without the new addition of vanilla are better than this one.
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