Up In the Early - Barrel-Aged
Wax Wings Brewing Company
- From:
- Wax Wings Brewing Company
- Michigan, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 14%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.32 | pDev: 3.47%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 22, 2024
- Added:
- Jul 10, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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A pub favorite released for the first time after spending a year in a Willett Family Estate bourbon barrel. Conditioned on coffee, cacao nibs and maple syrup.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by TreyIsWilson from Michigan
4.31/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.31/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
A - Pours a deep dark brown with an extremely thin tan head. Light amount of oily lacing.
S - Aroma is coffee, vanilla and maple syrup.
T - The taste follows the aroma. Black coffee, vanilla, milk chocolate, maple syrup and a mild barrel presence in the finish.
M - Full body with low carbonation. Creamy mouthfeel with a slick dry finish.
O - Really solid, but definitely less barrel than I expected.
Dec 22, 2024S - Aroma is coffee, vanilla and maple syrup.
T - The taste follows the aroma. Black coffee, vanilla, milk chocolate, maple syrup and a mild barrel presence in the finish.
M - Full body with low carbonation. Creamy mouthfeel with a slick dry finish.
O - Really solid, but definitely less barrel than I expected.
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
4.14/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.14/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
2023 vintage; consumed on 2/12/2024
Pours a deep, coffee-brown body capped with a finger of dark beige foam; decent head retention leaves a paper-thin layer of cap, persistent, creamy collar, and minimal-no lacing holding to the walls of the glass.
Aroma opens to dry oak backing chocolate chip cookie, with enhanced notes of dark cacao taking on a maple imbuement as coffee edges mark the bouquet over time.
Taste shows cocoa upfront followed by dark chocolate doused in maple syrup through the mid-palate; coffee and a modest roast on the back end guide to a chocolate wafer exhale.
Mouthfeel brings a medium body and a subtle fluff of modest carbonation; silky textures are established as a thin layer of creaminess lingers, leaving semi-stickiness on the back end to a glossy finish grazed with a subliminal, charry aspect.
A casual cohesion of breakfast intonation, where a lesser barrel presence allows adjuncts to firm and shine forth both individually and in totality.
Feb 13, 2024Pours a deep, coffee-brown body capped with a finger of dark beige foam; decent head retention leaves a paper-thin layer of cap, persistent, creamy collar, and minimal-no lacing holding to the walls of the glass.
Aroma opens to dry oak backing chocolate chip cookie, with enhanced notes of dark cacao taking on a maple imbuement as coffee edges mark the bouquet over time.
Taste shows cocoa upfront followed by dark chocolate doused in maple syrup through the mid-palate; coffee and a modest roast on the back end guide to a chocolate wafer exhale.
Mouthfeel brings a medium body and a subtle fluff of modest carbonation; silky textures are established as a thin layer of creaminess lingers, leaving semi-stickiness on the back end to a glossy finish grazed with a subliminal, charry aspect.
A casual cohesion of breakfast intonation, where a lesser barrel presence allows adjuncts to firm and shine forth both individually and in totality.
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