Flossmoor Station 11

Formerly brewed at Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery
Style: Sweet Stout
Flossmoor, Illinois USA

On tap at the 2007 GTMW: Pours an opaque black with a full, airy frothy tan head. Lightly sweet milk chocolate aroma has some nice oaky bourbon notes. Body starts with a mild earthy dark malty sweetness, a hint of light fruity tartness and vanilla oaky bourbon toward a smooth, dark chocolatey finish. A pretty interesting and enjoyable beer.

Rerating - I had this at the brewpub yesterday and it has aged ridiuclously well. The aroma is now more fruity with a real tartness. The flavor takes on the qualities of a Flemish Red with the new born (if one can call aging being reborn) sourness. Very nice.

Original Rating 7/8/2007 - 6/4/7/4/14 - 3.5
-------- />This brew looks great in the snifter, an ebon body with a creamy tan head. The aroma begins with fresh raspberries, but those quickly fade to be replaced by lightly roasted malts and a drop of Bourbon. Light-bodied and creamy in the mouth, the fruit re-emerges in the flavor accompanied by roasted malts, vanilla, and a touch of Bourbon in the finish. Not too shabby.

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FoBAB 2007: As good as the FS 10 was this was just another in a line of disappointing beers. So much so I apologized to Andrew at the fest for my ratings.

Pitch black with a minimal head or lace. Oh no, the dreaded green apple (Acetaldehyde flaw) appears on the nose. I found some fig, chocolate, herbal and grassy notes too.

While I found no raspberry in the aroma there was a nice twang on the palate with a layer of sweet chocolate and vanilla beans in support. The finish is a tad boozy and oaky. The mouth feel is sticky but thin, aggressive and warming. Just could not get into this but would like to see if it improves in the future.

On tap at GTMW. Poured a deep, garnet-tinted brown with a short cap of deep brown head. Aroma picked up toasty semi-sweet chocolates along with sour fruit.. couldn’t place the fruit.. smelled nice. Flavor was of very well-roasted sweeter chocolates with sour raspberries and very mild vanilla and bourbon presence (didn’t realize this was BA when I got it).. rather simple, but certainly tasty! Creamy on the palate but yields to oak and berry sourness a bit abruptly.. odd sour/sweet contrast on the finish.

on tap. pours black with tan head. nose of cherries, roasty. flavor is roasty, tart cherries and raspberries, and vanilla. a very nice stout but i’d like it served in an imperial pint glass not this snifter. it’d also work better as a bigger beer not a milk stout of 5.5%abv.

7/06/2007: I haven’t been to Flossmoor Station before and have been wanting to go, so I made it a priority to stop on my way to visit a friend for the weekend in the Chicagoland area. As luck would have it, they had just put the 11 on tap about 5 minutes before I walked in the door! Good thing I stopped in as I was probably the first RateBeer member to taste this beer... Flossmoor Station 11 is near black and quite opaque with a dense, creamy tan/brown head that lasts from the pour until the last sip. When first poured, the aroma contains mostly mouth-watering bourbon. However, as the beer warms up it reveals chocolate, caramel, raspberry, oak, and mellow bourbon. The flavor is fresh, ripe raspberries followed by bourbon and sweet, milk chocolate. The bourbon is not overdone in this beer at all and adds a wonderful bourbon flavor without too much alcohol. This beer has a full body with a smooth and milky texture. I don’t think I’ve ever heaf of or had a barrel-aged milk stout or a milk stout with fruit before, but this beer really pulls the bourbon and fruit together well. Overall this is a very well-blended beer that is a unique, complex, and memorable anniversary beer.

8 or 10 oz (?) snifter from tap at Flossmoor Station Restaurant and Brewery in Flossmoor, Illinois. Rating #5 for this beer...

Re-sampled, 19 Feb., 2008 Aging has brought out even more of the chocolate and raspberry flavor. Pours a black body with a kind of chocolate fondue foam. Light sourness breaks up what could otherwise be a soda taste. Strong bourbon presence from the barrel aging, seems much more alcoholic than listed. Goes down great. Enough to bring the rating up by a tick.
Original rating: 10 July 2007: Draft at FS. Deep black color in its teardrop-shaped goblet. 1/2" brown head. Smells like a big chocolate covered raspberry, all. Tastes like one, too, although the raspberry can sometimes stray into cough syrup territory. Coca seems a little thin. Notes of dry red wine and brandy more than bourbon, followed by a taste of unsweetened cocoa. May have finished a little too dry for a milk stout, perhaps from sitting in the barrel. Still a great, unique beer.

Looks like molten chocolate in the snifter, topped by a thick brown head. The nose is even parts chocolate malt and raspberries. The first taste is chocolate/cocoa and tart berries. This creamy concoction slides down easily and then a bourbon residue begins to radiate across the tongue. Quite a nice experimental brew.