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Southern Tier Creme Brulee Stout 3.68 585

Southern Tier Creme Brulee Stout

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95
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common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
5853.69/5.03.68/5.010%52.8Snifter
Commercial Description:
“a stout of great contention” We are not the harbingers of truth as some may suggest but it may indeed be argued that our brewing philosophy is tantamount to a dessert with a bellicose past. How, you may ask, would a brewery determine a likeness to hard-coated custard? Our response is simple; it’s all in the power of history, and of course, the extra finesse needed to top off a contentious treat with definition.

By comprehending the labyrinthine movement of time, one would not think it strange to trace the errant path of an ordinary object such as a cream dessert only to discover that it has been the cause of cultural disputes since the middle ages. The British founders of burnt cream and from Spain, crema catalana, both stand by their creative originality and we respect that, but it was the French Crème Brûlée, amid the strife of contention, that survived to represent our deliciously creamy brew. 10.0% abv • 25º plato • 195º L • 22 oz / 1/6 keg 2-row pale malt / dark caramel malt / vanilla bean / lactose sugar / kettle hops: columbus / aroma hops: horizon
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mingo1968 (30), phila, Pennsylvania, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/104/518/20

Aug 20, 2008  
At first wiff i would not think that it was beer in a glass, but a vanilla coffee drink. The color was almost black with a minimal head. It was very sweet to the taste, like desert in a glass. skip the chocolate cake and have a glass of this.

 TampaBeer (194), Tampa, Florida, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Dec 26, 2009  
Kind of a novelty - I think the enjoyment of this beer is a bit on the superficial side - take away the brulee flavor and I’m not sure what you’d be left with. It is a nice, new kind of flavor, however.


 mspindler (351), Alta Loma, California, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/57/104/517/20
Dec 26, 2009  
Bottle. Pours black with a lacing light tan head. Aroma is pure butterscotch sauce and vanilla bean, also some birthday cake. I guess the point is...creme brulee. Flavor is coffee, chocolate, caramel, and vanilla ice cream. Full bodied with medium carbonation.


 Gr0ve (1416), Oslo, Norway
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Dec 26, 2009  
660 ml bottle. Intense caramel and vanilla aroma. Clearly a crème brûlée beer. Quite a bit of espresso coffee in there as well. Tia Maria? The vanilla melds into the other flavours and it is the chocolate and the coffee that dominates the flavour. An extraordinarely beer. Dark malts are there but they hide well in the background behind the vanilla and the caramel. Hints of sweet licorice. Very enjoyable. A treat.


 nearbeer (1868), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/515/20
Dec 26, 2009  
Bomber. Opaque with a small, fleeting foam. Big sweet aroma of vanilla-caramel candy. Flavor is the same, with only a light hint of wood in the finish. Medium-heavy body is smoothly carbonated with well-hidden abv, and is an easy drinker. Nice, and definitely got the sweetness of the creme brulee in there, but could use some dry, edgy roasted malt flavors to keep it in check a bit more.


 shrubber85 (2995), Wallhalben, Germany
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/105/517/20
Dec 24, 2009  
Bottle. Strong cream/caramel and coffee malt aroma. Black/brown color with thin head. Creamy vanilla malt flavor with light alcohol finish. A dessert in a bottle - very tasty but unlike any other imperial stout I’ve tried.


spanky167 (15), , Virginia, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Dec 23, 2009  
Good flavor but I found it hard to drink an entire glass. Tastes and smells just like the name suggests. Good an after dinner drink.


 Cavie (1493), Fort Worth, Texas, USA
4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/59/104/518/20
Dec 21, 2009  
Bottle courtesy of thirdeye11. Deep ruby pour. Aroma is insane! Huge coffee roast with sweet whipped cream and loads of vanilla beans. To top it off it’s all been slowly roasted over a campfire. Freaken insane. Butterscotch on the nose but I’m certain it’s purposely added, and rightfully so. Flavor is exactly like it smells. So sweet, with butterscotch, chocolate, vanilla. Amazing, I could drink this all freaken day.


 tennessejed420 (100), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/103/515/20
Dec 21, 2009  
22 oz. bottle. Pours jet black body with small creme / beige colored head. Smell of burnt sugar, molasses, cream brulee basically. Taste is of sweet sugar / cream, vanilla, with roasted malts on the finish. Very nice and definitely a unique brew. Overall very sweet though - maybe one of the sweetest beers i’ve had in a long time. Slightly overpowering, though some darker, roastier things come through on the finish. Fun to drink one time, recommended, but not a session beer. Probably would not come back to it.



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