12 oz bottle - traded for.
So every once in a while I trade beer. One of (I mean a couple of) my friends compared this to Pokemon card trading. And yeah I guess its kind of like that.
But, it's one of the few ways I can try beer that isn't distributed to NJ or NY.
This beer was very highly touted on Beeradvocate.com (a website I frequent for forums, ratings, and trading), however it (and Odd Side Ales) most recently came under fire for dealing with a beer infection poorly. I had hoped that the infection hadn't affected the bottle I traded for.
Hipster Brunch is an imperial stout brewed with bacon, coffee, and maple syrup, and then aged in bourbon barrels. It clocks in at 10% ABV.
Hipster Brunch pours black with a 2 cm milk chocolate colored head.
Smells vanilla, maple, and salty bacon. But there's some tart cherry in there as well. Which is not a good sign.
Taste is more promising up front: first salty bacon (where's the smokiness?) and sweet maple and vanilla. Not getting any coffee which is disappointing. There's some sour/tart cherry on the end. Clear sign of infection. I'm happy I opened and drank this right away. I feel like waiting even a week more and this beer would be undrinkable.
The beer has a fairly thick feel to it. Had there not been that sour/tartness on the end, I feel like this would have worked really well with the beer.
Overall I feel like this could have been a great beer. It just falls short based on a couple of things:
1. The fact that there's most likely some micro-organisms in there creating some unintended flavors. With a manufacturing date of sometime in November of 2015, there's no way that the flavors of a 10% imperial stout should change this quickly without the influence of unintended bacteria/micro-organisms.
2. Can't taste the coffee!
3. There's no smokiness to the bacon. I would have guess salted caramel instead of bacon had no one told me what it was.
4. I think I would prefer all of these items in a non-barrel aged imperial stout. It seems like there's almost too much going on here.
Overal Rating: 5.35/10
So every once in a while I trade beer. One of (I mean a couple of) my friends compared this to Pokemon card trading. And yeah I guess its kind of like that.
But, it's one of the few ways I can try beer that isn't distributed to NJ or NY.
This beer was very highly touted on Beeradvocate.com (a website I frequent for forums, ratings, and trading), however it (and Odd Side Ales) most recently came under fire for dealing with a beer infection poorly. I had hoped that the infection hadn't affected the bottle I traded for.
Hipster Brunch is an imperial stout brewed with bacon, coffee, and maple syrup, and then aged in bourbon barrels. It clocks in at 10% ABV.
Hipster Brunch pours black with a 2 cm milk chocolate colored head.
Smells vanilla, maple, and salty bacon. But there's some tart cherry in there as well. Which is not a good sign.
Taste is more promising up front: first salty bacon (where's the smokiness?) and sweet maple and vanilla. Not getting any coffee which is disappointing. There's some sour/tart cherry on the end. Clear sign of infection. I'm happy I opened and drank this right away. I feel like waiting even a week more and this beer would be undrinkable.
The beer has a fairly thick feel to it. Had there not been that sour/tartness on the end, I feel like this would have worked really well with the beer.
Overall I feel like this could have been a great beer. It just falls short based on a couple of things:
1. The fact that there's most likely some micro-organisms in there creating some unintended flavors. With a manufacturing date of sometime in November of 2015, there's no way that the flavors of a 10% imperial stout should change this quickly without the influence of unintended bacteria/micro-organisms.
2. Can't taste the coffee!
3. There's no smokiness to the bacon. I would have guess salted caramel instead of bacon had no one told me what it was.
4. I think I would prefer all of these items in a non-barrel aged imperial stout. It seems like there's almost too much going on here.
Overal Rating: 5.35/10
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