Pot De Crème - Hazelnut
Hubbard's Cave Brewery

 

 

16oz can with no date. $14.99 for one can at TopTen Liquors. I feel shame spending that much on one beer, but I am taking an extended break from drinking soon, so that's my justification

This was a great beer. Poured up jet black with no head. Smelled very strongly of hazelnut sweetness. Taste is multilayered: at first its big chewy and chocolatey, with a very sweet resiny boozy middle, and a long savory hazelnut finish. The aftertaste sits in your mouth for what seems like ages, very pleasant

Another amazing beer to drink by the campfire. It loses points for being insanely overpriced

 

 

Ours really thick dark brown with little head, chunks of floaties and no retention.

Smell is hazelnut, vanilla, milk chocolate, roasted malts and alcohol.

Taste follows the nose with sweet vanilla hazelnut, milk chocolate and evident alcohol.

Very thick and chewy with very little carbonation.

Overall this is a nice sipper but has some flaws.

06/21/20 can @ home

16 oz. Can
2020-1

Poured into a Tree House glass a really nice dark brown/black color, pretty nice carbonation, with a very nice thick/creamy/quick one-finger plus dark tan head, which also leaves a pretty nice size island, and some nice sticky lacing behind. The nose is malty, hoppy, with a very nice chocolate/toffee, hazelnut, vanilla, slight licorice. The taste is very nice, malty, hoppy, with a very nice touch of chocolate/toffee, with some pretty nice hazelnut, some pretty nice vanilla sweetness, licorice. Full Body, ABV is hidden very nicely, a very tasty sipper, with a nice little dry/bitter/sweet finish. Overall, this is a very tasty brew. Nice to see it around here.

16 oz can from Kevin (where are you now?)
2/19
Thulsa Doom

Deep silky chocolate black with a creamy beige head of 1/2 finger, receding to a very thin ring with minimal lacing.

Aroma of roasted malt, bakers cacao, vanilla, and a little nuttiness and clay. Not much here.

But, the flavor is fantastic. Huge hot chocolate with chili peppers, sweet caramel creme, burnt brown sugar, toasted marshmallow, hazelnut, and vanilla. Palatable alcohol swab too, but I don't even care right now.

Feel is hot, viscous, burning, just unashamed in its alcohol heat and intensity. It's welcome here, despite the flaw. Huge roasty finish, with more alcohol/ethanol heat, some biting acidity, and stickiness.

Overall, a real treat. For fans of sweet stouts, hazelnut, marshmallow, or any kind of adjunct you can think of. It's just dreamy.

Tried a can of this earlier tonight. This beer pours a very dark brown, almost black color with a tan head that's about an inch thick when first poured that eventually settles to a thin ring lining the inside of the glass along with some small spots of surface foam. Not too much lacing either. Aromas of roasted malts, caramel, chocolate, vanilla, and hazelnut are all present. A very similar flavor profile, with the aforementioned roasted malts, caramel, chocolate, vanilla, and hazelnut that all blend together and compliment each other excellently. Good balance of flavors, especially as the beer sits and warms up a bit, and all the flavors come more too as the beer warms up some. Really, a very excellent flavor profile overall here. Has a slightly syrupy, sticky, chewy, also smooth and somewhat creamy, full bodied, thick mouthfeel with moderate carbonation. All the flavors linger nicely on my palate after each sip.

Eric

 

 

 

 

 

Shimmering black body with a brown collar. Smells strongly of sweet vanilla and hazelnut sitting atop milk chocolate with a kiss of booze. Taste is the same but with more decadence, really lets the hazelnut roast and sweetness come through, the lactose/vanilla combo brightens and cools, and the chocolate holds it all together lusciously, with again booze accenting well. Sure it is sweet, but it is literally designed to be a dessert beer so enjoy it as such! Feel is cool, stupid smooth, almost milky, and boozy. Best pot de creme in a long time if not ever! Everything just seems to flow together so well. The wife liked it.

 

Poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a superb looking ruddy dark brown color almost black with a small eggshell white foamy head softly falling off to leave some semi-messy semi-stringy lace swerving along my glass.
The aroma had a combined semi-sweet to roasty hazelnut melding and then seemingly throttling itself on into some milk chocolate/cocoa powder sweetness. Some wafer-like malts and an intricate underscore of some fudgy pudding thing going on.
The flavor pays up and leads with a sweetness combined of hazelnut, roasty, semi-toasty, subtle vanilla and wafer with a clean crisp dark chocolate sly bitterness weaving it's way underneath. Mellow aftertaste of dark chocolate, sweet coffee bean, some cocoa powder and nibs.
The mouthfeel was medium bodied with a fine sipping quality about it. Some roasty smoothness with a sly grip but nothing bothersome. Good carbonation. Nothing cloying. Finishes awesome with dark chocolate smoothness and a clean dark toast.
Overall, awesome Imperial stout done up in the way I'm starting to know by Hubbard's Cave.