Sleeping Forever - Frederiksdal
The Veil Brewing Co. - Production Brewery
- From:
- The Veil Brewing Co. - Production Brewery
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 13%
- Score:
- 91
- Avg:
- 4.18 | pDev: 9.81%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 26, 2019
- Added:
- Mar 16, 2018
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
91
Outstanding
91
Outstanding
Frederiksdal is an incredibly complex cherry wine from Denmark. We aged the 2017 vintage of Sleeping Forever in these amazing barrels for 14 months. The final product possesses notes of deep, juicy cherries, baking spices, Pinot noir must, dark cocoa powder, molasses, maple candies, and oak tannins.
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Reviewed by Stevedore from Oregon
3.47/5 rDev -17%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.47/5 rDev -17%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
500ml bottle. Dark black body, big roasty backbone, cocoa, cherry sweetness dominant. It's sweet, very sweet, almost medicinal. I'm not in love with it, though it does have a decent medium-fuller body, good carbonation with a sweet medicinal cherry finish.
Aug 12, 2018
Reviewed by Alieniloquium from Florida
3.03/5 rDev -27.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.25
3.03/5 rDev -27.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.25
500 mL bottle. Inky black. Smells of strong roasted malt, sweet dark fruit, oak. Tastes sweet up front. Sweet cherry. Sweet fudgy malt. Oak. Very sugary. Heavy with low carbonation. Too sweet for me. Way too sweet for me.
Jul 17, 2018
Reviewed by HattedClassic from Virginia
4.56/5 rDev +9.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.56/5 rDev +9.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
The beer pours a delicious looking, if not limited head while the beer itself is an indulgent looking dark chocolate black with a melted ice cream blended with chocolate syrup texture.
The smell has a delicious moderate cherry with a good and noticeable tartness to it. There is also a wood note lying underneath all of it that supplements that tartness a bit. The cocoa comes out bitter as it warms up and blends very well with the other notes.
The taste has a good mix of cocoa mixed with wood and supplemented by what seems to be more of a raspberry sweetness and tartness. There is some light molasses and moderate maple to create a fairly complex tasting beer.
The feel is good. It's a heavy bodied beer with a thin texture to it and biting carbonation too.
Overall, this was a very interesting and complex good beer. The different flavors all mixed well with each other while the smell was power and unique but did not overwhelm. This one is definitely worth having waited for it in line.
Jun 09, 2018The smell has a delicious moderate cherry with a good and noticeable tartness to it. There is also a wood note lying underneath all of it that supplements that tartness a bit. The cocoa comes out bitter as it warms up and blends very well with the other notes.
The taste has a good mix of cocoa mixed with wood and supplemented by what seems to be more of a raspberry sweetness and tartness. There is some light molasses and moderate maple to create a fairly complex tasting beer.
The feel is good. It's a heavy bodied beer with a thin texture to it and biting carbonation too.
Overall, this was a very interesting and complex good beer. The different flavors all mixed well with each other while the smell was power and unique but did not overwhelm. This one is definitely worth having waited for it in line.
Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
4.69/5 rDev +12.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
4.69/5 rDev +12.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
This one pours a deep dark and motor oil looking black, with a small brown head and a little bit of lacing.
This smells like jammy cherry and red wine, sweet maple, chocolate fudge, oak and cinnamon.
The barrels on this are absolutely killer, it adds such a nice jamminess to it, with dark roasted malt, red wine, raspberry, maple syrup, fudge, and cinnamon and oak spice. It’s super complex and the barrel adds so much to it.
This is super thick and fudgy, with a big rich and creamy mouthfeel, and a low level of carbonation.
This is one of the most unique stouts I’ve ever had. This is probably the best Veil beer I’ve ever had.
May 06, 2018This smells like jammy cherry and red wine, sweet maple, chocolate fudge, oak and cinnamon.
The barrels on this are absolutely killer, it adds such a nice jamminess to it, with dark roasted malt, red wine, raspberry, maple syrup, fudge, and cinnamon and oak spice. It’s super complex and the barrel adds so much to it.
This is super thick and fudgy, with a big rich and creamy mouthfeel, and a low level of carbonation.
This is one of the most unique stouts I’ve ever had. This is probably the best Veil beer I’ve ever had.
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