Butter Pecan Maple Barrel Stout
Central Waters Brewing Co.

16 oz. can. Smells of strong dank notes, white grape, tingly booze. Tastes sweet, herbals, grape, acidic tropical fruit. Boozy back end. Medium heavy. It's ok.

Pours pure black and settles black with dark mahogany brown on the edges and a dense, creamy tan head that doesn’t mind sticking around as a cap on the body of the beer.

The nose reveals this beer’s intent, which is to be tonight’s dessert. There’s truly butter pecan and maple, and there also rich milk chocolate and a nice bit of oak. Wow.

The taste follows the nose in lock step, with the butter pecan and maple demanding the most attention, but not to the beer’s detriment - it is nowhere near too sweet on my palate, which I feared. That fear was unfounded.

The mouthfeel is full, rich, and creamy. Exceptionally well executed, IMHO, and truly a pleasure to drink.

2024 vintage; consumed on 6/19/2025

Pours an inky, jet-brown body capped with two fingers of cardboard-brown foam; solid head retention leaves a half-finger of cap, modest, frothy collar, and the occasional strand of lacing holding tentatively to the walls of the glass.

Aroma projects butterscotch crossing candied pecan and a kiss of maple to accenting; lesser notes of cacao, vanilla creme, gentle wafts of barrel are espoused over time.

Taste offers candied pecan wrapped in a toasted butterscotch embrace, with residual caramel and toffee lingering atop a subtle whiskey effort.

Mouthfeel brings a medium-light body and an airy spritz of moderate-high carbonation phasing into a deftly flaky silk; warmth builds across the mid-palate, with a gentle pseudo-creaminess proceeding through the swallow.

An honest dessert stout, without overindulgence yet sporting a clear, focused identity that delivers as promised.

 

Bottled in 2022 and purchased at the brewery. Poured jet black with dense, deep brown head, slowly dissipating to thick ring around chalice glass and lacing in middle. Nose was pecans, roasted malt, and maple syrup. Taste was nice and mildly cloying (but not a detriment). Mouthfeel was velvety smooth.

 

B & E's Trees, 2024 release, 22oz bottle. Drank on 9/11/2024
Look is black body with no light going thru. 2 inch tall fine thick head that hangs on for a while but didn't leave much lacing.
Smells awesome.
Taste is rich and super smooth. Maple is the main flavor but the pecan nut is there, Other flavors are brown sugar, chocolate and roast. The roast comes in the finish and in the aftertaste. The aftertaste lasts a long time like 20 minutes or longer. Sweet.
Feel is good, smooth and not thin.

I think this would be a better cooler weather beer. it was a hot Sept. day when I drank it. Great beer

 

If you were one of the lucky few to be able to secure a copy of this fine brew, consider yourself lucky, for this is a special brew.

This beer pours dark black/brown. The beer seems to exhibit both dark black and dark brown properties. It pours without much carbonation, except toward the end of the pour where you end up with a one finger head that fizzles. Aroma is deeply maple, very dark malt sweet with a flavor of butter that rides over the top. A hint of pecan entices. One taste and you know you are in the presence of something special. Rich, maple, caramel, butter and pecan flavors hit equally all at once, and none of them hold back. This is not a beer for the faint hearted. If there is one small criticism, and that is very minimal, is that as the beer warms, it loses a bit of its' special character. Not much, but just a bit. But this is such a minor issue as to be very unimportant.

This is a nearly perfect beer and one that you should run to enjoy.

 

 

 

 

Pours with moderate head that is quite aromatic. Butter pecan ice cream combines with the maple to give the latter more of a maple candy character, as opposed to syrup. Also has some rich chocolate notes, as if hot fudge has been poured on top to make a sundae. This could go full banana split and I would likely really enjoy it, but as is, it also features a dry astringency on the midpalate and finish that takes away from the rest of the experience. Relatively thin for the ABV, like all of CW's offerings.

Overall quite good, but with some mixed feelings.

 

drank 2/21/21.

Hint of maple and lots of butter pecan ice cream flavor. They nailed the taste profile on this one! Hint of bourbon as well. Everything it’s advertised to be. Extremely well done & great balance with butter pecan flavor being the main player. Smooth, sweet, rich! A tad thin, but it does distract from the overall effect. I think that this is a huge step up from BA Maple stout. The butter Pecan ice cream flavors give that beer the little extra push that it needed to be excellent.

This was definitely good, just not up to Cassian Sunset or Pecan Kringle levels. Could use more presence of the maple and pecans. From a cost/benefit ratio I would choose the others first.