Pastel Con Amigos - Coffee Barrel Aged
Listermann Brewing Company
- From:
- Listermann Brewing Company
- Ohio, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 12.5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.15 | pDev: 5.3%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 27, 2021
- Added:
- Sep 09, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by firesidewithphil from Illinois
4/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pastel Con Amigos is back in rotation with the coffee BA. It is not super sweet and the best representation of Mexican cake I have had. All the flavors blend well together including the peppers. Great expression.
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Reviewed by deadonhisfeet from Kentucky
4.46/5 rDev +7.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.46/5 rDev +7.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Imperial Mexican cake stout with chocolate, vanilla, cinnamon, peppers, spices, and coffee added and aged in Bourbon barrels. Brewed in collaboration with Lupulin Brewing. Poured from a bottle into a Bruery tulip. On the nose I get cinnamon, toasted oak, Bourbon, cocoa, lots of coffe, and a bit of the same "chocolate chip muffin" note I get on the standard barrel-aged version of this beer (the one without the coffee). The pour is very, very dark (black) with about a finger of fine brown head with good retention for a barrel-aged beer. It is also fairly viscous. The addition of coffee to the nose really adds another dimension to an already great-smelling beer.
Full body with a creamy feel and a complex flavor. Like the other version of this beer I reviewed, this beer tastes like a cinnamon roll dipped in baker's chocolate and coffee. I get a lot of cinnamon up front, but not so much that it seems unbalanced or overly spicey. The coffee is also quite prominent, but like the cinnamon it's at just the right level to integrate well with the other flavors. Vanilla, bourbon, and baker's chocolate also chime in. Right at the finish, the peppers arrive and leave a comfortable heat on the finish. All the flavors seems to linger and the finish is complex and long-lasting. Perhaps a little alcohol heat on the finish, but it's difficult to distinguish between pepper heat and the alcohol heat when it's wrapped up in all of the other flavors.
Perhaps the best Mexican-style stout I have had (I might put barrel-aged Abraxis above this, but I can't think of another one off-hand that I've had that I prefer to this). Plenty of complexity and a nice balance of flavors without tipping too far in one direction. A fantastic beer.
Sep 09, 2019
Full body with a creamy feel and a complex flavor. Like the other version of this beer I reviewed, this beer tastes like a cinnamon roll dipped in baker's chocolate and coffee. I get a lot of cinnamon up front, but not so much that it seems unbalanced or overly spicey. The coffee is also quite prominent, but like the cinnamon it's at just the right level to integrate well with the other flavors. Vanilla, bourbon, and baker's chocolate also chime in. Right at the finish, the peppers arrive and leave a comfortable heat on the finish. All the flavors seems to linger and the finish is complex and long-lasting. Perhaps a little alcohol heat on the finish, but it's difficult to distinguish between pepper heat and the alcohol heat when it's wrapped up in all of the other flavors.
Perhaps the best Mexican-style stout I have had (I might put barrel-aged Abraxis above this, but I can't think of another one off-hand that I've had that I prefer to this). Plenty of complexity and a nice balance of flavors without tipping too far in one direction. A fantastic beer.
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