Minutiae Reserve (2025)
Phase Three Brewing Company

Beer Geek Stats
From:
Phase Three Brewing Company
 
Illinois, United States
Style:
American Imperial Stout
ABV:
13.5%
Score:
+6 ratings needed
Avg:
4.74 | pDev: 3.59%
Ratings:
4 | reviews: 2
Status:
Active
Rated:
Mar 13, 2026
Added:
Jun 07, 2025
Wants:
  1
Gots:
  0
For Minutiae Reserve 2025, we took a robust version of our stout recipe 2 and aged it for 41 months in Wild Turkey bourbon casks. While we typically blend stouts of this age with younger ones, we chose to showcase this single, well-developed stout on its own. Expect a rich base stout balanced by intense oak tannin, with notes of concentrated cocoa, toffee, and highlights of vanilla. This beer represents one recipe, one batch of bourbon barrels, and nearly three and a half years of patience.
Recent ratings and reviews.
 
Rated: 4.5 by PhineasMcClintock from Massachusetts

Mar 13, 2026
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Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois

4.66/5  rDev -1.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
Pitch black opaque body, brown cap. Smells of bourbon barrel with roasted malt, dark chocolate, caramel, earth with minor char flakes, vanilla, and fudge. Taste has a pronounced toffee note to the chocolate fudge, toasty barrel with a rustic bourbon, with char, roast, malts and a hint of date. Feel is chewy and massive with a thick smoothness, great barrel character. They nailed it again
Feb 24, 2026
 
Rated: 4.9 by Chuckdiesel24 from Illinois

Aug 29, 2025
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Reviewed by mschrei from Illinois

4.88/5  rDev +3%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 5
Pours thick and oily, very dark. Extremely strong chocolate notes on the nose. Very sweet boozy barrel taste. Big bold body, strong alcohol presence. Very good, but not as good as last year’s.
Jun 08, 2025