70k Caramel Apple
Against The Grain Brewery

From the 16 oz can in a snifter. This unique brew pours a coal black
with a nice head of brown foam that settles to a thick ring, thin layer, and
sports some very nice lacing. Nose of heavy caramel, rich apple, faint
bourbon, and vanilla. Taffy keeps coming to my mind with the nose.
Flavors exceed the nose with bourbon touched caramel dunked apple,
some brandy hints, dark brown sugars, subtle toffee, and vanilla. Mouth
feel is full, smooth, coating, rich, light carbonation, and a lightly tart finish.

Overall, a unique brew but a bit odd.

Cheers

16 ounce can, can't read the canning date on the bottom of the can. Served in a snifter, the beer pours dark brown/black with around an inch tan head that stuck around a while. There's also a good amount of lacing. I like the aroma, I could smell the apple as soon as I poured the beer into the glass and there's also caramel, roasted malt, vanilla and bourbon noticeable. For the most part I think the taste is similar to the aroma, but there's also the addition of some earthiness and chocolate flavors. The caramel apple stands out to me, it's strong but doesn't overpower the other flavors. Mouthfeel/body is full, it's creamy and coating with a good amount of carbonation. Have to say this is easily my favorite of the 3 70K variants I tried today, definitely worth trying if you like sweeter tasting imperial stouts and/or caramel apples!

The iconic Kentucky brewed Imperial Milk Stout of Against the Grain gets a bit of a fall festival feel with both caramel and apple.

70K Caramel Apple pours with a light sandy tan froth above a nearly black stout that settles slowly into the glass. As a sultry and bright scent of chocolate, apple, whisky, caramel a deeply earthen aroma swirls about the nose, the flavors lead with chocolate, coffee, toffee and more overt caramel with a smooth and silky texture.

As the caramel sweetness stews away on the middle palate, the more coffee-like influences from roasted grain bring a toasty, cocoa and coffee character that swells above the flavors of milk chocolate. A bold flavor of ripe green apples pulls from the early perfume and provides a near jolly rancher note. Mossy, gamy and earthy in its barrel portrayal, theres a soilish musk that permeates the late palate and gives the session and unclean flavor and feel.

The apple that provides an overcast of brightness and candied character continues to grow into the finish for a sensation of caramel apples with a hint of whisky in the beer's waning flavor. Full bodied, creamy and earthy, the barrel aged stout lingers with musty woods and a general off-clean mossy character.