After Dinner Decadence
Hidden Springs Ale Works

 

 

 

 

Poured a black body with minimal head and no lace. Smells like two scoops of chocolate ice cream with a couple cherries on top. Bready feel, almost like crackers, in a thick and heavy body with chocolate sweetness with notes of vanilla, booze, cherries, and even a hint of coffee dryness. Beer mostly hides the ABV and has good balance and is worth trying.

 

 

Had on tap. Might have been my favorite of the ridiculously decadent dessert stouts at fobab this year. Had multiple glasses. Lighter black body with a brown collar and lacing and brown edging. Smells like marshmallow dipped in chocolate fondue with dried cherry, coffee and bourbon hanging out, pretty sweet aromas. Taste hammers you with chocolate fudge, marshmallow, graham cracker, bourbon and cherry, with the coffee, oak, slight caramel lingering. Not as sweet as nose implies, super decadent and delicious. In a world with so many smore stouts, the cherry separates this from the rest. Feel is thick but not syrupy, multi-layered, chewy and sweeter but not overly so. This is how you do adjunct dessert stouts right. The wife loved it

 

 

poured into a tulip glass via bottle

color is nutty dark brown with mahogany foam

smell is milk chocolate, coffee and cherries

taste is sweet chocolate up front with a hint of coffee and followed up by marshmallows and caramel. bing cherries round things out. Sweet but not over the top sugar rush

carbonation is low and mouthfeel is just thick enough

a very good desert stout..all the flavors are blended well here..very nice!!

22oz bottle poured into a snifter. This is a barrel aged imperial s’mores stout with marshmallow, chocolate, graham cracker, coffee, and cherry. First whiff and I’m really digging the fantastic aroma. Really thick body on the mouthfeel, lots of sweetness, and the flavors mesh near perfectly. The coffee stands out the most to me of the advertised flavors. Really tasty brew!

Io