Up In the Early
Wax Wings Brewing Company
- From:
- Wax Wings Brewing Company
- Michigan, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 11%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.81 | pDev: 13.12%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 19, 2023
- Added:
- Apr 30, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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We reconfigured the recipe for this stout to be more akin to the viscosity and appearance of a latte. Less heavy and more approachable, this soft, sweet and creamy imperial milk stout was conditioned on maple syrup, cacao nibs and coffee beans (roasted by our good friends at Greenglass Coffee Co.) Contains lactose.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by StoutSnob40 from California
2.88/5 rDev -24.4%
look: 2 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.88/5 rDev -24.4%
look: 2 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
This just isn't a stout. It's literally a brown ale, that is insanely sweet. There is no body to it whatsoever, and I'm really not sure what this was supposed to be.
Jun 05, 2022
Reviewed by brewskis from Indiana
3.66/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.66/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours a dark brown color. As you hold it up to the light, a mahogany hue shows through. Produced a half finger of a tan colored head that went away quickly and leaves a thin ring of lacing on the glass. Definitely not as dark as expected for a 12% imperial milk stout and the viscosity seems on the thin side, but this was intended by the brewery, as they want it to look and drink more like a latte.
Aroma has a nice coffee presence as it warms. The maple is definitely there, but not as forward as expected. Cocoa powder, some bittersweet chocolate chip, some caramel, and some nondescript dark fruits round it all out.
Taste brings a bit more maple than the aroma indicated. Medium roast coffee and maple syrup are the dominant flavors with the maple coming through a bit more. Cocoa powder, slight milk chocolate, some brown sugar, some peat, slight dark fruits, some milk sugar, some vanilla.
Light medium to medium body. Slick, slightly creamy, sticky. Comes off a little flat. Could use a bit more carbonation. Quite smooth for 12% though.
This was intended to drink more like a latte and I feel that they achieved that for the most part. That being said, I would prefer a much fuller-bodied, more carbonated, and maltier beer to give the beer more roundness and complexity. I also would have preferred a darker/bolder roast of coffee. Not their best effort when it comes to their stouts, but I'll still enjoy it.
Apr 10, 2022Aroma has a nice coffee presence as it warms. The maple is definitely there, but not as forward as expected. Cocoa powder, some bittersweet chocolate chip, some caramel, and some nondescript dark fruits round it all out.
Taste brings a bit more maple than the aroma indicated. Medium roast coffee and maple syrup are the dominant flavors with the maple coming through a bit more. Cocoa powder, slight milk chocolate, some brown sugar, some peat, slight dark fruits, some milk sugar, some vanilla.
Light medium to medium body. Slick, slightly creamy, sticky. Comes off a little flat. Could use a bit more carbonation. Quite smooth for 12% though.
This was intended to drink more like a latte and I feel that they achieved that for the most part. That being said, I would prefer a much fuller-bodied, more carbonated, and maltier beer to give the beer more roundness and complexity. I also would have preferred a darker/bolder roast of coffee. Not their best effort when it comes to their stouts, but I'll still enjoy it.
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
3.61/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.61/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Bottled on 3/15/21; consumed on 5/6/21
Pours an inky, viscous, jet-black body topped with a gently rising fizz of effervescent carbonation, trickling out to a few paper-thin islands of cap, a vague ring of equally thin, froth around the surface, and a temporary display of soapy lacing strewn sporadically around the walls of the glass.
Aroma overwhelms almost entirely with higher-grade dark maple syrup upfront, though enlivened textures of freshly roasted coffee come through over time alongside an increasingly silky milk chocolate middle; grainy dark malts are continually saturated in sappy maple syrup through the back end, softening again with fresh coffee and brown sugar closing.
Taste brings a massive wave of dark maple syrup coats the profile, now giving way more willingly to intermittent hints of malty char; slight cacao verges toward melted chocolate ice cream over the mid-palate, sweetening further to hazelnut as vanilla encroaches on the back end.
Mouthfeel features a body on the lighter side of full and sports a minimally perceptible carbonation; inky initial textures verge chewy though remain manageably slick as the mildest roast and soft acridity fade through the finish with virtually no boozy lingering and only the vaguest residual sticky character clinging to the palate.
Bold and unrepentant breakfast in a glass,, this one is maple-forward to near excess, but eases just shy of complete overindulgence; the adjuncts are heavy but competently done and the roast profile is decidedly supplemental in a stout that projects its more saccarchine aspects honestly and without reservation.
May 07, 2021Pours an inky, viscous, jet-black body topped with a gently rising fizz of effervescent carbonation, trickling out to a few paper-thin islands of cap, a vague ring of equally thin, froth around the surface, and a temporary display of soapy lacing strewn sporadically around the walls of the glass.
Aroma overwhelms almost entirely with higher-grade dark maple syrup upfront, though enlivened textures of freshly roasted coffee come through over time alongside an increasingly silky milk chocolate middle; grainy dark malts are continually saturated in sappy maple syrup through the back end, softening again with fresh coffee and brown sugar closing.
Taste brings a massive wave of dark maple syrup coats the profile, now giving way more willingly to intermittent hints of malty char; slight cacao verges toward melted chocolate ice cream over the mid-palate, sweetening further to hazelnut as vanilla encroaches on the back end.
Mouthfeel features a body on the lighter side of full and sports a minimally perceptible carbonation; inky initial textures verge chewy though remain manageably slick as the mildest roast and soft acridity fade through the finish with virtually no boozy lingering and only the vaguest residual sticky character clinging to the palate.
Bold and unrepentant breakfast in a glass,, this one is maple-forward to near excess, but eases just shy of complete overindulgence; the adjuncts are heavy but competently done and the roast profile is decidedly supplemental in a stout that projects its more saccarchine aspects honestly and without reservation.
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