Sleeping Forever - Maple Bourbon
The Veil Brewing Co. - Production Brewery

500ml bottle from Tavour. Near black pour, fine brown head settles to ring around the glass. Boozy, maple aroma, bourbon, chocolate. Taste follows with sticky, sweet maple, chocolate, coffee, then a nice burn at the finish.

 

Been intrigued by the Sleeping Forever series for a bit & this is my first taste of Veil stout, delivered via a 500ML bottle. Terrible cat-based label art.

The pour is black & 98% still after about two minutes. Nose brings a light menagerie of maple, chocolate, & sweet malts.

Sleeping Forever – Maple Bourbon summons bourbon that was absent from the prequel. The label suggests, the taste delivers: a heavy slap of bourbon up front, interwoven with a nice dose of maple. Mid-palate delivers strong cocoa & the ABV begins to kick into the head space. Finishes clean with just a tack of bitterness. Full; no pastry here, just the right amount of stout return to make me want to finish this bottle myself.

Balance. It’s a dirty word in this house. But here, it works, a lovely split of bourbon/maple/malt with just a stitch of bitterness to keep it within acceptable parameters. Excellent beer that noses right up against the elite.

Brownish black body, large medium brown head, spotted lacing. Smell has char and maple added to the original, but not as rich with the chocolate or oak. Taste has warm maple with bourbon backing upfront before char, bitter chocolate, earth, and faint burnt caramel add to it. Feel is stickier but otherwise the same as original, maybe a touch more boozy.

 

 

 

poured from a 500mL bottle into a stemmed wine glass. pours a fairly thick and shiny black with a thin layer of mocha brown foam. cocoa and light maple in the nose. get a little more maple in the taste along with cocoa, molasses and light bourbon and vanilla. medium-full mouthfeel. good level of carbonation. delicious maple barrel-aged imperial stout. it’s not a maple bomb by any means but the maple barrels show as it warms and opens up.