Swirl and Spirals Supreme
Equilibrium Brewery

 

500ml bottle. No dating information found.
Black colored body, with no back lit edge. No real head, but a very minor surface storm with a thin ring. No lacing.
Aroma includes marshmallow, banana, maple syrup, cinnamon, and vanilla.
Taste is thick with inputs, and different from the nose because it has a definite chocolate flavor. Also has maple syrup, banana, cinnamon, and extra sweet from marshmallow and vanilla. Pecans provide a woody and nutty balance. Long lingering aftertaste with favorites from maple syrup, cinnamon, and chocolate over banana. Very much sweet over bitterness.
More than medium mouthfeel, and some stickiness. The higher ABV% is not expressed/ but rather well hidden. Quiet carbonation.
More integrated than suggested from the extensive ingredient list. Overall sweet but that is expected from the inclusion of marshmallow, breakfast cereal, vanilla, and maple syrup. Nutty aspect is a leveling aspect. Consider this to be a dessert beer.

A very good tasting beer, but very much a dessert beer. This is a huge, thick, sweet imperial stout. A bit too sweet for me. I'd love to try a version of exactly this, but with half the sugar content. I feel like I need to visit the dentist to check for cavities after this one.

This is quite the laundry list of adjuncts in this one. How did I convince myself to buy this? No clue, but I am on record as loving banana in beer. I haven’t had anything sweet from Equilibrium yet so I’m actually kind of excited to see how this thing turns out. Let’s dive right in

Pours a very dark brown with a finger of creamy dark tan head that slowly fades to a ring and leaves minimal lacing

The nose is quite sweet but I still dig it. I’m picking up on aromas of maple syrup, cinnamon sugar, overripe banana, burnt marshmallow, milk chocolate, caramel, raiain, and vanilla ice cream

The focus is shifted heavily to the cinnamon and maple syrup side of things in taste which is a bit overwhelming but I can appreciate it for what it is. On the front end of the sip I’m tasting maple syrup, cinnamon sugar, rich caramel, overripe banana, toasted pecan, chocolate fudge, marshmallow, and vanilla ice cream. The swallow brings notes of cinnamon sugar, maple syrup, overripe banana, burnt marshmallow, chocolate fudge, raisin, and molasses

A full body pairs with gentle carbonation, resulting in a thick and rich beer. Finishes sticky and sweet

This is pretty good, just a bit much to polish off

 

Pours black as midnight with little to no carbonation, and only the thinnest of heads surfacing briefly after a moment. Aroma is darkly complex, with cinnamon and marshmallows predominant followed by vanilla. Taste is tooth achingly sweet, with cinnamon far and away the primary flavor, followed by chocolate and vanilla. Maple is also quite noticeable but not too overpowering. Carbonation is again absent and it shows. This is certainly a sipping beer -- it's so sweet only a small sample can be downed at a time. ABV is nicely hidden. A pastry stout if there ever was one.

 

 

L: Pours thick, heavy oil-slick black. Very slow-rising caramel head, which had tremendous length. Fades into a fluffy tawny retention and wavy lacing on the edge of the snifter.

S: Tons of cinnamon, maple syrup, brown sugar, lactose, and vanilla.

T: Very strong doses of vanilla, cinnamon, maple syrup, and baker's chocolate. Roasted malts, almonds, cardamom, sugar, and lactose also feature towards the middle. Slightly bitter and spicy finish.

F: Thick and complex, fluffy and creamy as well. Full-bodied. A bit oily at first. Light to moderate carbonation.

O: An incredible treat. Decadent, with mounds of sugar and yet it's enjoyable. Tremendous mouthfeel. Lives up to reputation.

 

Poured a black body with almost no khaki head nor lace. The aroma is a mix of vanilla and chocolate with some faint notes of cinnamon. Smooth, lactic-slickness is evident, beer is thick but not sticky, as it struck me that this beer was like drinking cinnamon toast crunch cereal if you used chocolate milk instead of white milk. There is that chocolate sweetness underneath a spicy cinnamon taste and then beer finishes with a little kick from the cinnamon but that's all thanks to well-hidden booze.