Reindeer Balls (2020)
Heavy Metal Pizza & Explorer Brewing
- From:
- Heavy Metal Pizza & Explorer Brewing
- Washington, United States
- Style:
- Sweet / Milk Stout
- ABV:
- 8.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.72 | pDev: 16.4%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 11, 2025
- Added:
- Feb 08, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Come grab some Reindeer Balls White Chocolate Peppermint Stout with the Heavy Metal crew and kick off our anniversary weekend. This beer is loaded with Comet hops, Peppermint, Andes white chocolate bark, candy canes, Nestle white chocolate chips, Hershey white chocolate candy cane bars and even more white chocolate!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by CoasterRider from Washington
3.12/5 rDev -16.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
3.12/5 rDev -16.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
Pours a dark amber with no real head to speak of. With all the ingredients I figured it would taste better. You get the chocolate and slight coffee and roasted malts, but the peppermint is hardly noticeable at all. It's a nice drinkable beer, but nothing special like I thought it would be. My friend enjoyed it more than I did. This is dated 2020 and I rated in 12-22-2022 so must be brewing every year around Christmas. 30 IBUs. My listing shows the name as; "Reindeer Balls White Chocolate Peppermint Blond Stout".
Jan 11, 2025
Reviewed by DanBrenda from Washington
4.33/5 rDev +16.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.33/5 rDev +16.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
We got this in store at Heavy Metal in a crowler, chilled and poured into an imperial pint glass for the second half of the super bowl in 2021. Love Heavy Metal for those in the Portland area.
Look: Amber brown and hazy. Small finger sized light off color head with small ring of lacing that doesn’t hang on the glass. The head dissipates quickly.
Smell: Exactly as they describe. White chocolate mint, malt. The smell is amazing if you think peppermint bark or an Andes white chocolate mint candy.
Taste: Malt up front, white chocolate peppermint bark in the middle that trails off into a minty-malty candy aftertaste. No bittering and the 8.5% ABV is hidden well by the malty
Feel: Medium malty feel with a nice buckle of carbonation that hangs a while.
Interesting and odd beer. If you like peppermint and blond stouts this is a good beer. The malty notes in combination with peppermint almond bark is wierid for us.
Feb 08, 2021Look: Amber brown and hazy. Small finger sized light off color head with small ring of lacing that doesn’t hang on the glass. The head dissipates quickly.
Smell: Exactly as they describe. White chocolate mint, malt. The smell is amazing if you think peppermint bark or an Andes white chocolate mint candy.
Taste: Malt up front, white chocolate peppermint bark in the middle that trails off into a minty-malty candy aftertaste. No bittering and the 8.5% ABV is hidden well by the malty
Feel: Medium malty feel with a nice buckle of carbonation that hangs a while.
Interesting and odd beer. If you like peppermint and blond stouts this is a good beer. The malty notes in combination with peppermint almond bark is wierid for us.
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