Shade of Lies (Maple)
Incendiary Brewing Company - Winston-Salem
- From:
- Incendiary Brewing Company - Winston-Salem
- North Carolina, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 11.3%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.35 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jan 09, 2021
- Added:
- Jan 09, 2021
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Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
3.35/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.35/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Canned on 11/23/20; consumed on 1/8/21
Pours a dense black with a tinge of brownish highlights, and topped with a finger and a half of fluffy, dark khaki foam; good head retention yields a slight layer of frothy cap,, moderate, creamy collar, and a comprehensive walling of soapy, webby lacing along the glass.
Aroma overwhelms with maple bark into diner-style maple syrup upfront, detailed over tike with chocolate chip waffles accentuating a sweetness into roasted malts; a suggestion of burnt caramel and a bit of coffee with a distant nuttiness come to fruition, though all underscored with maple throughout the bouquet.
Taste is all maple upfront, with nuance shining through as the beer warms; burnt marshmallow offers a contrasting vanilla sweetness to earthier tones of maple bark and roasty malts, while hints of milk chocolate evolve into the back end; blackened bread crusts touched up with honey leave a predominant impression as a fading char holds steadily through the finish.
Mouthfeel brings an oily, light body sporting a pillowy carbonation, almost deceptive in its impressions of weight on the palate; slightly sticky as it maintains a fluffy, verging on airy texture over the mid-palate, swiftly drying with a sensation of flaky malts and delicate grit through the finish.
While the maple is intense and unwavering, the body is weak enough to compromise the other elements of the stout, hindering a full development of flavor and bouquet and resulting in a more one-dimensional, simplistic take on a maple-focused stout.
Jan 09, 2021Pours a dense black with a tinge of brownish highlights, and topped with a finger and a half of fluffy, dark khaki foam; good head retention yields a slight layer of frothy cap,, moderate, creamy collar, and a comprehensive walling of soapy, webby lacing along the glass.
Aroma overwhelms with maple bark into diner-style maple syrup upfront, detailed over tike with chocolate chip waffles accentuating a sweetness into roasted malts; a suggestion of burnt caramel and a bit of coffee with a distant nuttiness come to fruition, though all underscored with maple throughout the bouquet.
Taste is all maple upfront, with nuance shining through as the beer warms; burnt marshmallow offers a contrasting vanilla sweetness to earthier tones of maple bark and roasty malts, while hints of milk chocolate evolve into the back end; blackened bread crusts touched up with honey leave a predominant impression as a fading char holds steadily through the finish.
Mouthfeel brings an oily, light body sporting a pillowy carbonation, almost deceptive in its impressions of weight on the palate; slightly sticky as it maintains a fluffy, verging on airy texture over the mid-palate, swiftly drying with a sensation of flaky malts and delicate grit through the finish.
While the maple is intense and unwavering, the body is weak enough to compromise the other elements of the stout, hindering a full development of flavor and bouquet and resulting in a more one-dimensional, simplistic take on a maple-focused stout.
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