Kratos (Barrel-Aged)
Mortalis Brewing Co.
- From:
- Mortalis Brewing Co.
- New York, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 12%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.54 | pDev: 5.73%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 23, 2025
- Added:
- Jul 17, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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This Imperial Stout was aged for 17 months in a store pick Taconic maple finish barrel. It showcases in house roasted peanuts, dominican reserve cacao nibs, and our marshmallow treatment. The jet-black roast base is met with flavors of milk chocolate, creamy marshmallow, ball park peanuts, and Reese's Puff cereal.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
4.04/5 rDev -11%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.04/5 rDev -11%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
2025 vintage; consumed on 7/22/2025
Pours a sludge, black body capped with a short-lived finger of dark, khaki-hued foam; a glossy surface lingers as neither collar nor residual lacing can be found around the walls of the glass.
Aroma leads with peanut butter into dark chocolate upfront, with char gently integrating as silky malt cream sports edges of gooey marshmallow and milk chocolate over time.
Taste brings dark cacao and shades of peanut husks to open, steadily building in intensity with a denser peanut powder progression into prickly barrel counterbalanced over the mid-palate and a tinge of jet-puffed marshmallow lingering in the distance through the swallow.
Mouthfeel presents a medium-full body accompanied by minimal carbonation fading to a silkiness intertwined with touches of barrel grit and soft char developing over the mid-palate; a vaguely sticky back end forms as a building booziness settles through the swallow.
Airy marshmallow interplay somewhat hamstrings the burgeoning waves of PB silk while a deft barrel presence levels sweetness to inevitable returns to deeper cocoa-laced malt tendencies.
Jul 23, 2025Pours a sludge, black body capped with a short-lived finger of dark, khaki-hued foam; a glossy surface lingers as neither collar nor residual lacing can be found around the walls of the glass.
Aroma leads with peanut butter into dark chocolate upfront, with char gently integrating as silky malt cream sports edges of gooey marshmallow and milk chocolate over time.
Taste brings dark cacao and shades of peanut husks to open, steadily building in intensity with a denser peanut powder progression into prickly barrel counterbalanced over the mid-palate and a tinge of jet-puffed marshmallow lingering in the distance through the swallow.
Mouthfeel presents a medium-full body accompanied by minimal carbonation fading to a silkiness intertwined with touches of barrel grit and soft char developing over the mid-palate; a vaguely sticky back end forms as a building booziness settles through the swallow.
Airy marshmallow interplay somewhat hamstrings the burgeoning waves of PB silk while a deft barrel presence levels sweetness to inevitable returns to deeper cocoa-laced malt tendencies.
Reviewed by WickedBeer from Alabama
4.91/5 rDev +8.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.91/5 rDev +8.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
Right out the gate the nose is rich, decadent Brownie batter. The peanut butter component takes a few minutes to open up, but once it does the peanut butter cup vibes really shine.
Getting loads of baking cocoa and rocky road ice cream. The palate is straight up peanut butter brownies. Sweet but not cloying, with that barrel imparting an awesome heat. On the tail you’re left with subtle tannin.
With some time in the glass, this continues to develop nicely. Peanut butter molten lava cake all day. It honestly tastes like a BA vanilla stout with a huge chocolatey base and you just dropped a shot of Skrewball in.
Medium viscosity, a little syrupy. Huge residual barrel heat, low tannin.
Oct 10, 2022Getting loads of baking cocoa and rocky road ice cream. The palate is straight up peanut butter brownies. Sweet but not cloying, with that barrel imparting an awesome heat. On the tail you’re left with subtle tannin.
With some time in the glass, this continues to develop nicely. Peanut butter molten lava cake all day. It honestly tastes like a BA vanilla stout with a huge chocolatey base and you just dropped a shot of Skrewball in.
Medium viscosity, a little syrupy. Huge residual barrel heat, low tannin.
Reviewed by BillRoth from Maryland
4.6/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.6/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Had on tap at Mortalis tasting room.
Kratos Imp Stout aged 17 months In a Taconic Maple Finish barrel.
Poured a dark black with flares of burnt orange and ruby when held to sunlight.
Nose rich with chocolate, roasty peanuts, and sweetness.
Taste mirrored. Chocolate more dark/ cacao. Peanut merged in. Some marshmallows. Very tasty.
But with some warming the complexity really arose. Layers of dark fruit; richer more milk chocolate and lightly warmed maple and traces of vanilla. Further marshmallow emerged. The combination with initial flavors flavor was stunning.
Slightly oily; thick and smooth without being cloying. Nicely rounded sipper.
Overall a wonderfully complex barreled brew. Extraordinarily delicious.
Jul 17, 2022Kratos Imp Stout aged 17 months In a Taconic Maple Finish barrel.
Poured a dark black with flares of burnt orange and ruby when held to sunlight.
Nose rich with chocolate, roasty peanuts, and sweetness.
Taste mirrored. Chocolate more dark/ cacao. Peanut merged in. Some marshmallows. Very tasty.
But with some warming the complexity really arose. Layers of dark fruit; richer more milk chocolate and lightly warmed maple and traces of vanilla. Further marshmallow emerged. The combination with initial flavors flavor was stunning.
Slightly oily; thick and smooth without being cloying. Nicely rounded sipper.
Overall a wonderfully complex barreled brew. Extraordinarily delicious.
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