Belgian Stout
Hi-Wire Brewing
- From:
- Hi-Wire Brewing
- North Carolina, United States
- Style:
- American Stout
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.47 | pDev: 14.41%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 20, 2020
- Added:
- Jan 25, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Collaboration with New Belgium Brewing Company.
Belgian Stout is not a bold and roasty American-style stout simply brewed with Belgian yeast. The recipe was designed as a proper nod to the Belgian-style, and it all started with the grain bill. Briess’ Midnight Wheat and Epiphany Craft Malt’s Brewer’s Breakfast Malt lend a subtle grain body while Ruby Malt also from the North Carolina-based Epiphany provides notes of plum, fig, and dark fruit. Additions of orange to the base create a classy ale reminiscent of a chocolate orange while star anise adds a whiff of botanical liqueur and soft licorice. Imperial’s Napoleon Belgian Yeast’s high attenuation leaves this beer extremely dry allowing for a pleasant orange twang mixed with smoky cloves on the finish.
Belgian Stout is not a bold and roasty American-style stout simply brewed with Belgian yeast. The recipe was designed as a proper nod to the Belgian-style, and it all started with the grain bill. Briess’ Midnight Wheat and Epiphany Craft Malt’s Brewer’s Breakfast Malt lend a subtle grain body while Ruby Malt also from the North Carolina-based Epiphany provides notes of plum, fig, and dark fruit. Additions of orange to the base create a classy ale reminiscent of a chocolate orange while star anise adds a whiff of botanical liqueur and soft licorice. Imperial’s Napoleon Belgian Yeast’s high attenuation leaves this beer extremely dry allowing for a pleasant orange twang mixed with smoky cloves on the finish.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by chinchill from South Carolina
3.98/5 rDev +14.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.98/5 rDev +14.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
12 oz can with a January 2020 canning date stamp on the bottom.
This is a really well done American version of Belgium style stout. The funky Belgian yeast notes are obvious but do not overpower the dark roasted grain notes. Plenty of toasted wheat joins the yeast in the aftertaste. Relatively harmonious for the style.
Mar 17, 2020This is a really well done American version of Belgium style stout. The funky Belgian yeast notes are obvious but do not overpower the dark roasted grain notes. Plenty of toasted wheat joins the yeast in the aftertaste. Relatively harmonious for the style.
Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
3.56/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
If the savory character of Belgian Quad makes you want more of the sultry, darker and more robust type of savory, then the collaboration Belgian Stout of Hi-Wire and New Belgium should press all of the happy buttons.
Pouring a dark, russet brown, the simply named Belgian Stout builds a creamy, lush but short lived froth. As fruity, toasty and spicy scents roll onto the nose, the taste is gently sweet with steely caramel, cola and sorghum.
As the more Belgianesque character opens up on the middle palate, its the stone fruit presence of raisin, date and fig that await a spice medley of peppercorn, allspice and clove for balance and complexity. Caught somewhere between a Belgian Dubbel and the toasty nature of Schwarzbier, the beer's late palate is lightly bittered with a broad and woodsy bitterness.
Medium bodied and with the threat of becoming thin, the beer is remarkably drinkable but with the sacrifice of blandness when compared to expectations. A medium length finish of light vinous fruit is trailed by a medium length afterglow of roasted fruit and toasted spice.
Mar 13, 2020Pouring a dark, russet brown, the simply named Belgian Stout builds a creamy, lush but short lived froth. As fruity, toasty and spicy scents roll onto the nose, the taste is gently sweet with steely caramel, cola and sorghum.
As the more Belgianesque character opens up on the middle palate, its the stone fruit presence of raisin, date and fig that await a spice medley of peppercorn, allspice and clove for balance and complexity. Caught somewhere between a Belgian Dubbel and the toasty nature of Schwarzbier, the beer's late palate is lightly bittered with a broad and woodsy bitterness.
Medium bodied and with the threat of becoming thin, the beer is remarkably drinkable but with the sacrifice of blandness when compared to expectations. A medium length finish of light vinous fruit is trailed by a medium length afterglow of roasted fruit and toasted spice.
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