Barrel Aged French Toast Stout
903 Brewers
- From:
- 903 Brewers
- Texas, United States
- Style:
- Sweet / Milk Stout
- ABV:
- 9.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.92 | pDev: 4.59%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 01, 2022
- Added:
- Oct 03, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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903’s French Toast Stout aged 14 months in Ironroot Republic barrels. Aged on maple, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Kostantiniyya from Texas
3.74/5 rDev -4.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev -4.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
903 Barrel Aged French Toast Stout was aged 14 months in Iron Root Republic whiskey barrels using 903’s earlier French Toast Stout as the base. This is a taproom only release that I managed to pick-up in their Sherman, TX location in mid-May 2021. Drinking it on October 2, 2021 after it had rested in the back of my fridge from the moment it made its way to my home. Served in a 12-oz sniffer glass and given approximately 30 minutes to warm up before really diving into its profile.
Look: Pours a dark brown color with coppery hints. Lots of upfront carbonation leading to a fizzy head that quickly dissipates. There are no fingers on the side of the glass. This beer is high in its ABV but I suppose I was surprised to see it didn’t crack double digits after I scrolled through 5 months of 903 Facebook posts to arrive at the alcohol content (it’s not listed in the bottle for some reason).
Smell: Smells like syrupy, buttery French toast. Very inviting. Makes me want breakfast. The essence lasts from the moment of first pour to the final sip. I thought it was very pleasant; and though I have not much to say about it, one of its finest attributes.
Taste: A little off. Yes, it tastes like syrupy French toast. However, even upon letting it warm up, there’s this almost musty backend flavor that takes away from the upfront sweet tastiness. I assume 903 gets their water for their beer from Lake Texhoma, and the flavor profile of that water is probably a mixture of redneck and mud. I feel like many of the non-slushy 903 beers have this inherent flavor profile. The more I drank this beer, the less I wanted to. Sixteen ounces is a lot, and I can’t help but wonder that storing it in my fridge for four and a half months might have done a slight disservice to this beer’s flavor profile. I probably should have had it upon purchase back in mid-May. With that said, most of the flavor is French toast. French toast is good.
Feel: Shockingly, this is the best part of the beer. While it is thin in its profile, it does have this almost buttery-like consistency that does lend my brain to think I am eating French toast in a glass. With that said, it sure would have been cool had this been thicker.
Overall: A pretty good beer, but one that might have been better under different conditions directly influenced from how I stored it. Given it’s a one-off that can only be obtained from a brewery located at the TX / OK border, and that taste was the lowest scored category by this reviewer, I give it a 3.75 based on its smell and mouthfeel. A good 903 beer.
Oct 03, 2021Look: Pours a dark brown color with coppery hints. Lots of upfront carbonation leading to a fizzy head that quickly dissipates. There are no fingers on the side of the glass. This beer is high in its ABV but I suppose I was surprised to see it didn’t crack double digits after I scrolled through 5 months of 903 Facebook posts to arrive at the alcohol content (it’s not listed in the bottle for some reason).
Smell: Smells like syrupy, buttery French toast. Very inviting. Makes me want breakfast. The essence lasts from the moment of first pour to the final sip. I thought it was very pleasant; and though I have not much to say about it, one of its finest attributes.
Taste: A little off. Yes, it tastes like syrupy French toast. However, even upon letting it warm up, there’s this almost musty backend flavor that takes away from the upfront sweet tastiness. I assume 903 gets their water for their beer from Lake Texhoma, and the flavor profile of that water is probably a mixture of redneck and mud. I feel like many of the non-slushy 903 beers have this inherent flavor profile. The more I drank this beer, the less I wanted to. Sixteen ounces is a lot, and I can’t help but wonder that storing it in my fridge for four and a half months might have done a slight disservice to this beer’s flavor profile. I probably should have had it upon purchase back in mid-May. With that said, most of the flavor is French toast. French toast is good.
Feel: Shockingly, this is the best part of the beer. While it is thin in its profile, it does have this almost buttery-like consistency that does lend my brain to think I am eating French toast in a glass. With that said, it sure would have been cool had this been thicker.
Overall: A pretty good beer, but one that might have been better under different conditions directly influenced from how I stored it. Given it’s a one-off that can only be obtained from a brewery located at the TX / OK border, and that taste was the lowest scored category by this reviewer, I give it a 3.75 based on its smell and mouthfeel. A good 903 beer.
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