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Deschutes Black Butte XXI 3.98 407

Deschutes Black Butte XXI

Percentile
99
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bottled
common

on tap
common

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4074/5.03.98/5.0Special11%93.2Snifter
Commercial Description:
XX - 20th Anniversary, released 2008
XXI - 21st Anniversary, released 2009

This masterpiece is a tribute to Black Butte Porter, the revolutionary Deschutes Brewery beer that has excited beer enthusiasts since 1988. This special Reserve Series release is a colossal version of Black Butte Porter. Our brewers enhanced Black Butte XXI by adding some Theo’s Chocolate cocoa nibs from Seattle, dry-hopping it with 100 pounds of Bellatazza’s locally roasted coffee, and then aging a portion of it in Stranahan’s Colorado whiskey barrels. These regional partners provided quality artisan ingredients that give this commemorative beer a truly handcrafted complexity.
Released as Black Butte XX in 2008 to celebrate our 20th Anniversary.
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 joergen (8627), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/105/515/20
Apr 19, 2009  
Bottle at bager. Pitch black coloured with a medium sized beige head. Roasted aroma of chocolate and caarmel with notes of spices. Roasted flavour of chocolate, caramel and alcohol with notes of liquorice, spices and hops. Roasted, hoppy and warming alcoholic finish.


 Maria (6286), Thisted, Denmark
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/515/20
Feb 9, 2009  
Courtesy of After4ever, thanks Tom! It is pitch black with a huge, light brown and creamy head. The aroma has sweetness and notes of licorice, coffee, wood and vanilla. The flavour has sweetness and light notes of bourbon is the first expression. It also has notes of licorice, wood, coffee, chocolate and the bitter, dry finish has some peppery alcohol.


 ABUSEDGOAT (1934), California, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Jul 3, 2008  
Draft at brewery: black bodied. Aroma is coffee, chocolate, cocoa, caramel, darker fruits, light vanilla and barrel. Full bodied, quite sweet, alcohol hidden well. Enjoyable stuff.


 Rciesla (3750), Exit 15W, New Jersey, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/104/515/20
Oct 10, 2008  
Bottle in a trade. Pours a...wait i drank it out of the bomber. Some coffee and coco, some roasted malt and a hint of bourbon. Good beer i didnt taste the etoh but as you can tell i wasnt in the mood to pick it apart.


 emacgee (1892), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/517/20
Aug 19, 2008  
Thanks to durhambeer for sharing this. Pours a dark black brew with a tan head. The nose was sweet, some coffee, bakers chocolate. Didn’t get any oak or bourbon from the nose or flavor. The flavor was lightly smokey, more bitter from the coffee and chocolate than I would have liked, some roast and some waxy hop flavor. Overall I feel like this one is pretty overrated.


 TheEpeeist (1471), Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/517/20
Oct 21, 2008  
22 oz bottle. Dark brown with a smooth tan head. Nose is chocolate cake, coffee and molasses. Yum. Medium body with a sharp tang. Tastes like a dark chocolate egg cream with a bitter, coffee bean bite. Alcohol grows with the finish but i didn’t pick up the bourbon. Needs some softening.


 JohnnyJ (1350), Carlsbad, California, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Jul 26, 2008  
Pours a dark black with tan head. Another great dessert beer, one of many that I have had recently. Very sweet and chocolaty. The aroma is a little to boozy, but time should help that out. Cocoa, coffee, sweet toasty malt, creamy chocolate, vanilla,and definite yet restrained bourbon and oak. Very nice creamy mouthfeel. This is a nice beer and should age well.


 xnoxhatex (1305), Grand Rapids/Chicago, Michigan, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/516/20
Apr 16, 2009  
Thanks to 17thfloor for sharing. Opaque black with creamy small brown head. Peppery coffee aroma with dry roasted malt, dirty, really different, like nothing I had before, a little charcoal and chocolate, a little oxidzed cherry. Flavor is sweet cherry with coffee, a little woody, alc, a little oxidized, raspberry, a little cloying, bakers chocolate, a little hops, interesting but a little hairspray as well. Medium and light carbonation. Really sweet and alc is slightly off, this has a lot of really good merits though.



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