At Twilight
Private Press Brewing

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From:
Private Press Brewing
 
California, United States
Style:
American Strong Ale
ABV:
15.5%
Score:
+3 ratings needed
Avg:
4.42 | pDev: 4.75%
Ratings:
7 | reviews: 3
Status:
Active
Rated:
Feb 27, 2024
Added:
Jun 05, 2023
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  0
A blend of triple, double, and single barrel-aged stout and barleywine.
Blended in collaboration with Side Project.
Recent ratings and reviews.
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Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York

4.57/5  rDev +3.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
This one pours a very dark black color, with a small head, and not much lacing.

This smells like roasted malt, char, marshmallow, vanilla, caramel, cookie dough, coffee, and oak.

This is absolutely fantastic. It leans more towards stout than barleywine, in terms of the blend ratio. There’s a lot of heavily charred barrel character here, with a bready and cookie dough like sweetness that I really enjoy. There’s bitter dark chocolate chip, vanilla, caramel, dark fruit, and espresso, too. This is really well integrated and absolutely delicious.

This is medium bodied, very creamy, and not boozy at all, with a nice drinkability.
Feb 27, 2024
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Reviewed by Sabtos from Ohio

4.44/5  rDev +0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Contrastingly oily yet matte black with a short tan head that dies quickly to a slick surface.

A slight boozy burn meets an amalgam of oakiness accompanying nutty walnut and cacao with a touch of spiced date.
Oct 09, 2023
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Reviewed by M-Fox24 from New Jersey

4.25/5  rDev -3.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
A: Necessitates prolonged stretches, where the residual clings have canceled, as a way to nuance/build upon the cathedral arches. This is due to the hourly permittance on fluid mechanics (µ), besides a C₂H₆O awareness, when warranting – ardent – incalescences. Correspondingly, the tears have a higher density running the headways, where the postponed stops are predominant to the decanted walls. Leading up to this, a brief insignificance on the spindrifts, given the destructive substance(s) on formation. Chiefly, the inebriant aspects aside the imperfect (linked/ion) associations, which comes true to style, providing a quick ( < 5 ds) detachment. An output that is then rapid to top at around .4 dm with a Quokka neck, before filming a palette to canvas a Wildebeest rim at around .04 dm. All the while, the inscribed tumbler transfers a Black Vulture pour through Western Capercaillie highlights, when paired under the secretions. Notwithstanding, an isolated – aerating & inscribed – vessel, which perceives Caiman toned changes post the obsidian presets

S: Fermentable steps causally preempt the start, given an isoamyl format ignition, while the lupulin effects regard. Respectively, a colophony to gum rosin detail with a Mirabelle plum character, as a crema thick layer tops – freshly brewed – espresso. The direction features a caramelization that plays off maltol hemicelluloses, when reinforcing the bready substructures at the midriff. Therefore, a coherent decomposition across amyloses, which signifies & furthers the rich malt ambiences. The tones have a lactone sentiment to personify coconut through mounds, while mixing cashews alongside figs per a ventilated assist. This is achieved through an incremental warmth, when subjecting the minutes to hours. Subsequently, oxidation is imposed to enlighten the difficulties with a Tawny Port likeness, which prospects flame raisins near honeyed cherries. All the while, an evolution across the hydrolysable substances, which have regulated the porous woods, when advancing onto the dry – leathery – provisions. This is accompanied by an attestation to collapsed Colossus, besides engulfed automobiles, as guaiacols calmy manifest

T: The hops provide an inaugurating – pillared – effect to coordinate the esters appropriately, as the grain bill materializes upon the warmer °F. A pathway that has an openness to the phenolic aldehyde compositions, when mounting complex polymers to the course. With that in mind, the activities play on Cow Tails aside tahini fig truffles, while Toblerone(s) circuit around a beta-damascenone calling. There is a black currant to date elasticity upon the woodsy hop encounters, which favors the oak lipid occurrences. Accordingly, the essences resemble boreal forests with a conifer type complexion across awl-, needle, and scale. This element is initially shy in cutting the starch-to-sugar conversions, as they midpalate near 5- methylfurfurals, yet achieve some traction through the exposed rests. Inevitably, evaporation is imposed towards oxidation > 6hrs, which enlightens the lactone sentiments with eugenol element. An abetment that has a scented symmetry to the aforementioned – vinous – qualities, of Tawny Port. This correspondence has a sweet tannin draw with a soft crawling dryness, which provokes the addendums to attack enflamed allegories

M: A creamy velvetiness that aptly airs out to gouge sacchariferous, from being under-attenuated. The carbonation is thereby mitigated throughout, as a way to ease complexity with a calm arboraceous kick. A yield that is firstly slow on the secondary phenolic metabolites, while the 4.5/6hr stretch reiterates such framings at > 78°F

O: Organic acids through wort compositions are imbedded precisely, around an incremental balminess, for financing diverse points. Continuously, there are complicated alcohols in the perimeter, of the cask trellises, which capably cipher esters alongside the grain tax. Notwithstanding, an arranging hop effect on the sweeter impacts, while whispering ‘porter’ affinities
Sep 26, 2023
 
Rated: 4.56 by SadMachine from New Jersey

Aug 18, 2023
 
Rated: 4 by acurtis from New Jersey

Aug 13, 2023
 
Rated: 4.45 by westcoastbeerlvr from California

Jun 11, 2023
 
Rated: 4.65 by mig100 from Texas

Jun 05, 2023