Bestowed - German Chocolate Cake
Third Moon Brewing
- From:
- Third Moon Brewing
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial Pastry Stout
- ABV:
- 11%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.01 | pDev: 9.48%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 10, 2023
- Added:
- Oct 02, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by Jeffo from Netherlands
4.39/5 rDev +9.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.39/5 rDev +9.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Got this from Emma & Terry. Cheers!
From a 500ml bottle into a snifter
Imperial stout with chocolate, toasted coconut and lactose
APPEARANCE: Pours out muddy black and yields a small, medium looking, tan head with half decent retention. Head quickly fizzes down to a faint wisp and ring. Black body and no real carbonation evident. Light wisp remains but leaves no real lacing on the glass as it empties.
SMELL: Lots of roasted malts, chocolate and lactose aromas, coconut as well with some hints of vanilla and caramel aromas. Smells indeed like chocolate cake. Bold and enticing.
TASTE: Bold and rich flavors of roasted malts, dark, pure chocolate sweetness, coconut flavors and vanilla cream up front. Lactose sugars as well, moving into a big, bold and persistent finish of bitter-sweet chocolate, roasted coffee flavors, sweet lactose and vanilla cream, with hints of caramel and some coconut flavor linger on the palate. Chocolate cake for sure. Flavorful and decadent. Lovely.
PALATE: Medium-fuller body and medium carbonation. Creamy and smooth on the palate, enough weight, goes down smooth and finishes somewhat sticky. A bit of heat lingers. Good feel.
OVERALL: This is excellent. Definitely excellent. The head is not all that impressive, but the rest of the journey is outstanding. Fuller body with lots of decadent aromas and flavors. This is advertised as a chocolate cake stout and it comes through with flying colors. I’m not so sure if it’s specifically a German chocolate cake. Perhaps is reminds me more of an Austrian, or perhaps even an old-style chocolate cake from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but honestly, I can’t fault them for getting the exact nationality wrong. It’s an honest mistake. At any rate, let’s give credit where credit is due, and Third Moon certainly deserves it here, as they do with plenty of their other malty creation. Thanks again guys!
Feb 10, 2023From a 500ml bottle into a snifter
Imperial stout with chocolate, toasted coconut and lactose
APPEARANCE: Pours out muddy black and yields a small, medium looking, tan head with half decent retention. Head quickly fizzes down to a faint wisp and ring. Black body and no real carbonation evident. Light wisp remains but leaves no real lacing on the glass as it empties.
SMELL: Lots of roasted malts, chocolate and lactose aromas, coconut as well with some hints of vanilla and caramel aromas. Smells indeed like chocolate cake. Bold and enticing.
TASTE: Bold and rich flavors of roasted malts, dark, pure chocolate sweetness, coconut flavors and vanilla cream up front. Lactose sugars as well, moving into a big, bold and persistent finish of bitter-sweet chocolate, roasted coffee flavors, sweet lactose and vanilla cream, with hints of caramel and some coconut flavor linger on the palate. Chocolate cake for sure. Flavorful and decadent. Lovely.
PALATE: Medium-fuller body and medium carbonation. Creamy and smooth on the palate, enough weight, goes down smooth and finishes somewhat sticky. A bit of heat lingers. Good feel.
OVERALL: This is excellent. Definitely excellent. The head is not all that impressive, but the rest of the journey is outstanding. Fuller body with lots of decadent aromas and flavors. This is advertised as a chocolate cake stout and it comes through with flying colors. I’m not so sure if it’s specifically a German chocolate cake. Perhaps is reminds me more of an Austrian, or perhaps even an old-style chocolate cake from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but honestly, I can’t fault them for getting the exact nationality wrong. It’s an honest mistake. At any rate, let’s give credit where credit is due, and Third Moon certainly deserves it here, as they do with plenty of their other malty creation. Thanks again guys!
Reviewed by Ozzylizard from Pennsylvania
3.63/5 rDev -9.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.63/5 rDev -9.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Bestowed – German Chocolate Cake from Third Moon Brewing. Received 500 mL bottle in a Ninja strike from @Coroneaus. Stored at home at 40 degrees. Reviewed 2/10/21. Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Undated can. Served at 56.3 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. Final temperature 58.1 degrees.
Appearance – 3.75
First pour – Straw (SRM 30), barely translucent.
Body – Deep Brown (SRM 30), opaque. When rear-lite, opaque to the edges. Weak effervescence. Small amount of sediment remains in bottle.
Head – Small (Maximum 2 mm, aggressive center pour), rust, fizzy and no retention, leaving neither cap nor crown. Second pour produces an ephemeral ring of bubbles.
Lacing – None. Not unexpected at 11% ABV.
Aroma – 3.75 – Initially weak chocolate with a trace of coconut and (possibly imaginary) vanilla, no hops, no yeast.
Flavor – 3.5 – Begins with chocolate fudge, slightly sweet, no coconut, no vanilla, no malt, no yeast. No ethanol (11% ABV, as marked on container) taste or aroma. No gastric warming. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl.
Palate – 4 – Full, approaching pasty, soft and barely noticeable carbonation.
Final impression and summation 3.5 (After deducting 0.25 point for undated can) Leaves my lips sticky. A bit of ethanol finally appears on the exhale. Generally missing aroma or flavor.
Oct 02, 2021Undated can. Served at 56.3 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. Final temperature 58.1 degrees.
Appearance – 3.75
First pour – Straw (SRM 30), barely translucent.
Body – Deep Brown (SRM 30), opaque. When rear-lite, opaque to the edges. Weak effervescence. Small amount of sediment remains in bottle.
Head – Small (Maximum 2 mm, aggressive center pour), rust, fizzy and no retention, leaving neither cap nor crown. Second pour produces an ephemeral ring of bubbles.
Lacing – None. Not unexpected at 11% ABV.
Aroma – 3.75 – Initially weak chocolate with a trace of coconut and (possibly imaginary) vanilla, no hops, no yeast.
Flavor – 3.5 – Begins with chocolate fudge, slightly sweet, no coconut, no vanilla, no malt, no yeast. No ethanol (11% ABV, as marked on container) taste or aroma. No gastric warming. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl.
Palate – 4 – Full, approaching pasty, soft and barely noticeable carbonation.
Final impression and summation 3.5 (After deducting 0.25 point for undated can) Leaves my lips sticky. A bit of ethanol finally appears on the exhale. Generally missing aroma or flavor.
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