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Cloud Daggers
Modern Times Beer
- From:
- Modern Times Beer
- California, United States
- Style:
- Imperial Porter
Ranked #15 - ABV:
- 12%
- Score:
- 96
Ranked #1,017 - Avg:
- 4.42 | pDev: 5.2%
- Reviews:
- 10
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 15, 2024
- Added:
- Nov 07, 2018
- Wants:
- 3
- Gots:
- 2
Collaboration with Bottle Logic
Weighing in at over 12%, this imperial porter was aged in bourbon barrels and meticulously layered with maple syrup, pecans, cocoa nibs and vanilla beans.
Weighing in at over 12%, this imperial porter was aged in bourbon barrels and meticulously layered with maple syrup, pecans, cocoa nibs and vanilla beans.
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Ratings by ilikebeer03:
Rated by ilikebeer03 from Texas
4.25/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Dec 29, 2018
4.25/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Dec 29, 2018
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
4.45/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
4.45/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
Midnight black opaque body with a beige collar. This beer is so smooth it is silly, malty foremost, barrel character is solid, yet it isn't super heavy or sugary, perfect for a dessert pastry porter. Maple and vanilla star in the nose with chocolate, bourbon and a hint of caramel. Taste has more barrel backing, but still adjunct forward for sure with a really nice maple and vanilla combo integrating in a full and cooling way, chocolate, malts, pecan, almost a hint of pretzel help contrast and balance out.
Dec 01, 2022Reviewed by drdiesel9483 from Ohio
4.38/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.38/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Look - pretty thick mostly black with a thick tan head and lacing
Smell - very faint porter scent
Taste - nice blend of maple nutty chocolate and barrel
Feel - full body creamy light carb
Overall - fantastic
Nov 27, 2022Smell - very faint porter scent
Taste - nice blend of maple nutty chocolate and barrel
Feel - full body creamy light carb
Overall - fantastic
Reviewed by rand from California
4.06/5 rDev -8.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.06/5 rDev -8.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
22 oz bomber into a snifter
Crude oil appearance, viscous as hell. Candied pecans all over the nose, along with anise and oak. Tons of vanilla and caramelly sweetness on the palate, as a chewy complexion compounds all of the flavors. Oak aging works to dry the palate, some, but low carbonation allows for its sweet residuals to cling seemingly indefinitely. Properly hopped, and warming booze helps its drinkability.
Borders on a pastry stout and classic BBA. Not sure why this was dubbed an imperial porter rather than a stout, other than perhaps what went into the wort…end result is a big chewy, sweet, BBA stout.
Jul 22, 2022Crude oil appearance, viscous as hell. Candied pecans all over the nose, along with anise and oak. Tons of vanilla and caramelly sweetness on the palate, as a chewy complexion compounds all of the flavors. Oak aging works to dry the palate, some, but low carbonation allows for its sweet residuals to cling seemingly indefinitely. Properly hopped, and warming booze helps its drinkability.
Borders on a pastry stout and classic BBA. Not sure why this was dubbed an imperial porter rather than a stout, other than perhaps what went into the wort…end result is a big chewy, sweet, BBA stout.
Reviewed by BigIronH from Michigan
3.79/5 rDev -14.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev -14.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours a dark cola brown. A finger of mocha head. Nose is chocolate sauce, roasted nuts, vanilla and sweet maple syrup. Taste is muddled between the flavors, maple syrup and chocolate being the most pronounced. Not much barrel presence. Feel is full and oily. Decent beer.
Mar 19, 2022Reviewed by Alieniloquium from Florida
3.98/5 rDev -10%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.98/5 rDev -10%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
650 mL bottle. Black body, no head. Smells of bourbon, chocolate, nuts, lots of booze. Tastes of bourbon, chocolate, rich fudge and nuts, sweet maple, but not too sweet. Medium heavy and boozy. Just about the maximum amount of rich sweet booze I can handle, but it's very good.
Jan 22, 2022Rated by BourbonForBeer from Illinois
4.56/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.56/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Great, I very much enjoyed this. Overall very satisfied.
May 31, 2021Rated by Furlinator from California
4.58/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.58/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Vintage 2019.
Dec 28, 2020Reviewed by CraftFan5 from New Jersey
4.1/5 rDev -7.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 5 | overall: 4
4.1/5 rDev -7.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 5 | overall: 4
4 November 2020 - Beer #205
Price: $32.25 at Modern Times Beer - Belmont Fermentorium in Portland, OR
Appearance: 4 - poured thick from the bottle. Not much head, and it's distinctly Brown.
Nose: 4 - smells great, but it's mild. Mostly vanilla.
Taste: 4 - A LOT of flavor here. I get all the adjuncts except the chocolate. It's not amazing, but it's really good.
Mouth: 5 - as thick a porter as I've ever had. Tremendous.
Overall: 4 - an extremely tasty and enjoyable pastry porter.
Cheers!
Nov 16, 2020Price: $32.25 at Modern Times Beer - Belmont Fermentorium in Portland, OR
Appearance: 4 - poured thick from the bottle. Not much head, and it's distinctly Brown.
Nose: 4 - smells great, but it's mild. Mostly vanilla.
Taste: 4 - A LOT of flavor here. I get all the adjuncts except the chocolate. It's not amazing, but it's really good.
Mouth: 5 - as thick a porter as I've ever had. Tremendous.
Overall: 4 - an extremely tasty and enjoyable pastry porter.
Cheers!
Reviewed by Original_Gravity from Washington
4.65/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.65/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
2020 edition: double-aged in Spanish brandy and maple bourbon barrels with coffee, vanilla and pecans - 13.1% ABV.
Poured from 22oz bottle into stemless tulip glass. Virtually no head - medium viscosity legs. Smell is delightful; coffee/donut shop aroma with slight earthiness. Taste is divine! Like drinking a maple donut!! Mouthfeel is exquisite as well; rich and decadent. May be a tad on the sweet side - but still amazing!
This is such a fabulously engineered beer! All adjuncts command attention - but not one overwhelms the others - they all play very nicely together.
Another knockout effort from Modern Times (and Bottle Logic)! I particularly like that they used a porter as the base of this beer.
Sep 19, 2020Poured from 22oz bottle into stemless tulip glass. Virtually no head - medium viscosity legs. Smell is delightful; coffee/donut shop aroma with slight earthiness. Taste is divine! Like drinking a maple donut!! Mouthfeel is exquisite as well; rich and decadent. May be a tad on the sweet side - but still amazing!
This is such a fabulously engineered beer! All adjuncts command attention - but not one overwhelms the others - they all play very nicely together.
Another knockout effort from Modern Times (and Bottle Logic)! I particularly like that they used a porter as the base of this beer.
Cloud Daggers from Modern Times Beer
Beer rating:
96 out of
100 with
43 ratings
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