10W-40 - S'mores Imperial Stout
Hi-Wire Brewing
- From:
- Hi-Wire Brewing
- North Carolina, United States
- Style:
- Imperial Pastry Stout
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.84 | pDev: 3.65%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 09, 2026
- Added:
- Jun 12, 2025
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Imperial Stout with vanilla, cinnamon, and lactose
Dark as a ghost story past curfew, this rich and creamy stout stacks up sweet graham cracker, melty chocolate, and toasted marshmallow—just like a s’more, but boozy and mess-free.
Dark as a ghost story past curfew, this rich and creamy stout stacks up sweet graham cracker, melty chocolate, and toasted marshmallow—just like a s’more, but boozy and mess-free.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by CBlack85 from South Carolina
4.03/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.03/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured from a 16 oz. can into a Willi Becher Glass
The beer pours jet black with no visible highlights, with about three fingers worth of dark tan head that slowly recedes leaving behind very little lacing.
The aroma is big and sweet with notes of chocolate, vanilla, coffee, roasted malts, and cinnamon.
The flavor is sweet and chocolatey, with coffee, vanilla, cinnamon, roasted malts, and just a hint of booziness. The cinnamon seems a bit out of place in this beer, as I don't usually see S'Mores with big cinnamon flavors. Full bodied and very creamy, with light/moderate carbonation), slightly sticky mouthfeel
I have enjoyed many of the 10W-40 variants, and this one is quite good. While it is a bit on the sweet side, the roastiness helps to provide some balance
Oct 20, 2025The beer pours jet black with no visible highlights, with about three fingers worth of dark tan head that slowly recedes leaving behind very little lacing.
The aroma is big and sweet with notes of chocolate, vanilla, coffee, roasted malts, and cinnamon.
The flavor is sweet and chocolatey, with coffee, vanilla, cinnamon, roasted malts, and just a hint of booziness. The cinnamon seems a bit out of place in this beer, as I don't usually see S'Mores with big cinnamon flavors. Full bodied and very creamy, with light/moderate carbonation), slightly sticky mouthfeel
I have enjoyed many of the 10W-40 variants, and this one is quite good. While it is a bit on the sweet side, the roastiness helps to provide some balance
Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
3.77/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Roasty, toasty and taking on its oily namesake, Hi-Wire gives this motor head a treat.
S'mores 10W-40 hits the glass with a frothy blackness that settles with a foamy tan cap and a coffee-laden scent of french press beans, cocoa, caramel, cola, cream and spice ahead of a robust taste of caramel and coffee. With suggestions of sweet cream and cola swirling on the middle palate, a smoky cocoa balance continues to drive a roast-forward balance with a woodsy, spicy finish.
Full bodied but bitter and balanced, the beer is a shy assessment of s'mores compared to all the pastry flavors that permeate the beer scene. But it is a pleasant throwback to when stout tasted like beer.
Jun 12, 2025S'mores 10W-40 hits the glass with a frothy blackness that settles with a foamy tan cap and a coffee-laden scent of french press beans, cocoa, caramel, cola, cream and spice ahead of a robust taste of caramel and coffee. With suggestions of sweet cream and cola swirling on the middle palate, a smoky cocoa balance continues to drive a roast-forward balance with a woodsy, spicy finish.
Full bodied but bitter and balanced, the beer is a shy assessment of s'mores compared to all the pastry flavors that permeate the beer scene. But it is a pleasant throwback to when stout tasted like beer.
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