The Fourth Wall
Bottle Logic Brewing

From the Carwyn "One" subscription Pack, December 2022. Drunk in August 2023.

L: The beer is black with orange highlights and has a thin, swirly head that looks like a caramel ripple on top of the beer. No carbonation is visible.

S: On the nose, there's mild cocoa, almond, booze and vanilla.

T: Up front, there's mild cocoa and almond, just like in the nose. There's an ethereal, almost barrel-aged booze note at the back end, which is probably the coconut and booze interacting, but if I didn't know better, I'd swear this was aged in whisky barrels. The blurb on the can assures me it's not. There's not a lot of depth in this beer - that boozy "barrel" note overwhelms everything else. There's an alcoholic kick and warmth in my stomach after each swallow.

M: Mouthfeel is smooth, but not so much that it overcomes the booze note.

O: The can says the beer has lactose, coconut, cacao nibs and almond, but the central presence is booze. The beer became a bit of a chore as a result and was one I had to stick at to finish.

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#298

 

1825
Name: The Fourth Wall
Brewery: Bottle Logic
Style: Milk Stout/Imperial Stout
ABV: 10%
Date: 2022

Switching it up and drink a milk stout/ Imperial for the last beer of the night. I have had this in fridge for a few months now. Using my Jester King glass, I served the beer around 54 degrees. The pour created a creamy and foamy two-fingered light tan head with average retention. The slow dissipation left chunks of lacing on the glass. Charting the beer color somewhere around SRM 38 a dark brown nearly black. No discernible hues when put up to a light source. Overall the appearance of the beer is slightly above average.
Nosing the glass, I first detect coconut, nuts, and milk chocolate. Smelling the glass a few more times, I smell dark roasted malts, bready, raisins, figs, caramel, hints of floral, and a touch of herbal. Smells like a candy bar in liquid form.
Holy smokes, this beer is sweet. It taste like a snickers bar and mounds had a baby. The flavors, are caramel, nuts, milk chocolate, coconut, raisins, dark roasted malts, char, bready, and molasses.
The mouthfeel is thick and coating. The body of the beer is medium plus, low carbonation, and long finish.
To me this one of those beer you could only drink one of in a week. The sweetness is slightly off-putting. Overall it is good desert beer. I have tasted better stouts from this brewery that had more complexity and balance.

 

 

 

No canning date. A recent Tavour purchase. Poured at 54°. Fast fizzy tan head; poor cap retention; thin ring and a few spots of lace at best; no legs; black body with ruby edges. Sweet milk chocolate nose; some almond as the beer warmed. Sweet lactose followed by cocoa upon entry; no coconut; toasted brown bread middle; a little almond in the finish. Silky smooth feel, medium light body, moderate minus carbonation; no warmth from 10% abv. Overall this beer is thin for abv and way too sweet; and there’s no coconut. Disappointing.

smooth creamy stout slight sweet malt taste

 

 

16oz mason jar on tap from Craft Beer Quick Stop.

 

On tap at King's Beer and Wine in Phoenix, AZ.

This one pours a fairly dark black color, with a small head, and a bit of lacing.

This smells oddly minty, with lots lactose, and a bit of coconut on the nose.

This one was a miss for me, unfortunately. I typically really only enjoy Bottle Logic's barrel-aged beers. With a handful of exceptions, their regular beers don't match up to the high levels that their BA program reaches. There's just too much lactose here, and it makes it much, much too sweet for me. There's also a very odd mintiness here that shoudn't really be there. The coconut and almond are a bit lost for me.

This is very creamy, but kind of syrupy and too sweet on the palate. It was tough to finish even a 4 oz pour of this.

I didn't love this one. Maybe it was a weird keg, as it shouldn't have tasted minty.

Black, moderately thin relative to expectations. More lactose than I would prefer, but this is otherwise a pretty satisfying Almond Joy stout. I'm not typically a pastry stout fan, and this was just dancing on the line of being too sweet for me.

Jet black with an inch and a half of coffee ice cream colored head that hung around for a bit, but not terribly long. Thin ring of lacing left behind. Aroma is chocolate and lactose, and certainly smells quite decadent. Taste is really interesting. First thing to hit the tongue are roasted malts, but other flavors definitely follow throughout the long finish. The coconut and almond give a distinct Almond Joy vibe to this, which is something I would not normally gravitate to in a beer, but with this one, it works. It's definitely sweet, and I probably would have preferred a 12 oz. format vs. 16, but overall this is an enjoyable stout. You could also get in trouble fairly quickly with this one, as it certainly doesn't reveal the 10% ABV at all.

interesting.... not interested in the lactose, but it's a nice take on the candy bar!
"Almond Joy-inspired sweet stout brewed with lactose, cacao nibs, fresh and toasted coconut, with sliced and roasted almonds."

 

Pours a shiny black color. Completely opaque. Thick mocha colored head slowly dissolves leaving no residual head.

Aroma has notes of roasted malts, roasted barley, lactose, coconut and vanilla. Its a very strong roasted aroma with more subtle and balanced sweetness.

Taste allows the additives to really shine - there are roasted malt notes, but its underneath the notes of vanilla, coconut, chocolate, and almond. I definitely get the almond joy vibe they arguing for here. Whats most impressive is that in spite of the flavors and notes which are definitely sweet, its not overly sweet and actually is pretty well balanced for what it is. Also this is a rare beer with coconut in it that I actually like - and thats likely because this tastes like actual natural coconut, not suntan lotion.

Feel is thick, viscous, and really smooth. Moderate carbonation.

Overall its a really nice sweet stout.

Jet black with a brown ring. Huge milk chocolate smell with toasted almost, coconut, vanilla, and syrupy sugar, but all held down a bit by a roast aroma. Taste sees the roast gone and this just takes off, allowing the adjuncts to meld into a cohesive unit together. Smooth verging on syrupy, thick, but not boozy at all, sweet but doesn't cloy. Better than the almond joy that inspired it!