Sun Of A Beak
Midnight Sun Brewing Co.
- From:
- Midnight Sun Brewing Co.
- Alaska, United States
- Style:
- American Porter
- ABV:
- 8.3%
- Score:
- 83
- Avg:
- 3.66 | pDev: 15.57%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 14
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 12, 2018
- Added:
- May 13, 2013
- Wants:
- 8
- Gots:
- 6
SCORE
83
Good
83
Good
Collaboration with Black Raven Brewing Company
Imperial Porter brewed with birch syrup, molasses and toasted coconut, aged in bourbon oak barrels.
Imperial Porter brewed with birch syrup, molasses and toasted coconut, aged in bourbon oak barrels.
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.77/5 rDev +3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev +3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
22oz bottle, thanks to hoppypocket for the trade!
This beer pours a rather opaque, russet brown-tinged black, with basic basal cola highlights, and a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and bloated marshmallow beige head, which leaves an array of approaching Space Invaders lace around the glass as it genially dissolves.
It smells of moderately toasted, grainy pale and caramel malts, weak cocoa, understated woody maple syrup, pithy coconut husk, vanilla, wood plank, and softly alcoholic Bourbon notes, subdued brown sugar, and an unaccounted for hoppy bitterness. The taste is more grainy, red wine-tinted caramel malt, a certain sotted breadiness, innocuous fleshy coconut, a mild smokiness, with very subtle bourbon booze overtones, plain molasses, and softly weedy, earthy hops rounding things out.
The carbonation is fairly fizzy, in a somewhat overwrought, pervasive manner (rather bottle-conditioned in nature, IMHO), the body a steady medium weight, no less, and no more, with an appropriately negated smoothness. It finishes off-dry, the caramel malt, multifaceted brown sugar essences, lingering pithy coconut, and woody vanillan notes facing little that says otherwise.
Once again, just because you toss a whole shitload of disparate ingredients into the process, doesn't guarantee success, and that is duly evident here - as an overarching sour element kind of takes a good deal of the potential fun out of this offering. So, despite all the wood syrup, coconut, and Kentucky's finest (?) wood, is this porter really all that better off? Hard to say, but I'm going to say no, even though I've not yet sampled the underlying beer itself.
Oct 30, 2013This beer pours a rather opaque, russet brown-tinged black, with basic basal cola highlights, and a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and bloated marshmallow beige head, which leaves an array of approaching Space Invaders lace around the glass as it genially dissolves.
It smells of moderately toasted, grainy pale and caramel malts, weak cocoa, understated woody maple syrup, pithy coconut husk, vanilla, wood plank, and softly alcoholic Bourbon notes, subdued brown sugar, and an unaccounted for hoppy bitterness. The taste is more grainy, red wine-tinted caramel malt, a certain sotted breadiness, innocuous fleshy coconut, a mild smokiness, with very subtle bourbon booze overtones, plain molasses, and softly weedy, earthy hops rounding things out.
The carbonation is fairly fizzy, in a somewhat overwrought, pervasive manner (rather bottle-conditioned in nature, IMHO), the body a steady medium weight, no less, and no more, with an appropriately negated smoothness. It finishes off-dry, the caramel malt, multifaceted brown sugar essences, lingering pithy coconut, and woody vanillan notes facing little that says otherwise.
Once again, just because you toss a whole shitload of disparate ingredients into the process, doesn't guarantee success, and that is duly evident here - as an overarching sour element kind of takes a good deal of the potential fun out of this offering. So, despite all the wood syrup, coconut, and Kentucky's finest (?) wood, is this porter really all that better off? Hard to say, but I'm going to say no, even though I've not yet sampled the underlying beer itself.
Reviewed by bishopdc0 from Maine
4/5 rDev +9.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +9.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Shard a bottle with my wife. I pulled this from my cellar fride. Upon inspection both my wife and I agreed this needed to warm u
The appearance of this beer is black with a dense head with a nice lace. The bubbles are small and plentiful.
The nose is complex to start. The nose is classic imperial stout/baltic porter. There is a big chocolate coconut and vanilla. The bourbon is present but very much a back seat, nice to see among most overly burboned beers
The taste starts sweet and moves to a chocolate and coconut and an almost earthth berry much like raisin.
Overall I ike this beer not for everyday but very nice A dry imperial stout meets a dessert stout
Sep 19, 2013The appearance of this beer is black with a dense head with a nice lace. The bubbles are small and plentiful.
The nose is complex to start. The nose is classic imperial stout/baltic porter. There is a big chocolate coconut and vanilla. The bourbon is present but very much a back seat, nice to see among most overly burboned beers
The taste starts sweet and moves to a chocolate and coconut and an almost earthth berry much like raisin.
Overall I ike this beer not for everyday but very nice A dry imperial stout meets a dessert stout
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