Paint The Shadows (2023)
Alma Mader Brewing
- From:
- Alma Mader Brewing
- Missouri, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 15%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.4 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 20, 2023
- Added:
- Dec 20, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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This year's version consists of a rye stout base aged in Willett Bourbon and Rye barrels for 21-22 months. We used a heavy hand of roasted hazelnuts, Tanzanian cacao nibs, and Madagascar vanilla. The base beers create a foundation of milk chocolate, praline wafers, and those wonderful oaky lactones from top-notch Bourbon barrels. As we conditioned on the adjuncts, our intention was to use them in a way where one does not dominate, but each of them comes through as the beer is opened and starts to warm. As much as we want to dive deep into a long list of tasting notes, we can't help but to feel like this beer parallels a gold foil-wrapped Ferrero Rocher.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Harrison8 from Missouri
4.4/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.4/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Pours black with an oily top, no head. Thick oily legs with the slightest swirl of the glass. Looks heavy, like motor oil that's been run hard through a motor for 15k miles (but in an appetizing way.)
Aroma leads off with huge hazelnut. Cocoa, vanilla bean, and maple add some extra depth and sweetness. Barrel and oak show up later, pulling back some balance from the initial sweet (but not overly sugary) notes. Heavy woodiness late. Balance is finalized by roasty and toasty malts and mild char.
Flavor profile is heavy hazelnut. Cocoa nibs land in globes, alongside thick vanilla bean. Barrel is present throughout, reigning in the initial notes from turning this into a dessert beer. Nougat caramel, and molasses and some late marshmallow add further sweetness. Malts by the way of roasty and toasty add firm tethers to the sugary notes. As a whole, it's oozy flavor, thick from wall to wall, but never runs away into dessert territory or unwieldy heavy.
Mouth feel is thick in thickness. It has a still-ish effervescence and mild silty texture.
Overall, big and boozy with loads of hazelnut and vanilla bean notes. Despite the flavor additions, it never runs away from balance.
Served from a bottle. Reviewed from notes.
Dec 20, 2023Aroma leads off with huge hazelnut. Cocoa, vanilla bean, and maple add some extra depth and sweetness. Barrel and oak show up later, pulling back some balance from the initial sweet (but not overly sugary) notes. Heavy woodiness late. Balance is finalized by roasty and toasty malts and mild char.
Flavor profile is heavy hazelnut. Cocoa nibs land in globes, alongside thick vanilla bean. Barrel is present throughout, reigning in the initial notes from turning this into a dessert beer. Nougat caramel, and molasses and some late marshmallow add further sweetness. Malts by the way of roasty and toasty add firm tethers to the sugary notes. As a whole, it's oozy flavor, thick from wall to wall, but never runs away into dessert territory or unwieldy heavy.
Mouth feel is thick in thickness. It has a still-ish effervescence and mild silty texture.
Overall, big and boozy with loads of hazelnut and vanilla bean notes. Despite the flavor additions, it never runs away from balance.
Served from a bottle. Reviewed from notes.
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