Peg’s G.O.O.D. Rare DOS

Brewed by Peg’s Cantina
Style: Imperial Stout
Gulfport, Florida USA

Serve in Snifter

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Sniffer at Peg’s. Pours pitch black with a small brown head leaving some laces. Aroma is sweet roasted rich barrel vanilla. Flavor is nicely roasted pungent bitter green apples fruity. Pungent roasted bitter fruity finish.

A - opaque cola w no head. S - rich vanila, toffee, molasses, oak, raw cacao, toffee, caramel. Nice barrel stout. M - tangy rich to a long sweeter malty end. Heavy slick body. T - tangy raw cacao, molasses, vanilla up front to a creamy coconut toffee vanilla palate. Tangy bitter malty and vanilla end. O - great barrel aged brew. 4.3 ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Pours a thick jet black with a thin mocha head. Aroma of bourbon, oak, vanilla, chocolate and roast. Taste is chocolate bourbon, vanilla and oak. Nice and balanced bal aged beer. So thick and smooth, this is crazy good.

Shared by yourefragile. Thanks Mike! The beer is brown with a nice looking head and spotty lacing. The aroma is quite complex, bringing coconut, whiskey, vanilla, oak, toffee, roast. Amazing flavor. Just incredibly smooth, wonderfully complex, and no heat whatsoever. Terrific balance. One of the best barrel aged stouts I have had. World class. Serving type: growler Reviewed on: 06-05-2011

Rich chocolate fudge brownies with coconut. A bit on the boozy side and very hot. Sludgelike thickness. It is extremely tasty, but also hard to drink in any meaningful quantity and taxing on the palate. Still a damn good BA Stout, one of the best I’ve tried.

Poured from a growler into a snifter. My pour of Rare D.O.S. looks like it may be a little bit light on the carbonation. The beer itself is pretty much black, with dark mahogany and ruby edges where a bit of light can sneak through. Just a tiny wisp of a mocha cap rests around the edges of the glass without the ability to leave lace. The aroma comes on strong and smooth. Creamy chocolate, roasted malts, vanilla, and smooth bourbon. From the first sip it is not hard to tell why this beer has received such high praise. Throughout each sip there is a smooth bourbon presence from start to finish that starts slow and never goes over the top. The Palm Ridge whiskey integrates itself well with each flavor component of the base beer. Creamy chocolate makes the beginning of each sip taste like fudge. The roasted malt has its own sweetness and brings some coconut, vanilla, and molasses. Toward the end of the sip, the growing oak presence combines with a bitterness in the base beer to create a slightly astringent flavor. As expected, the carbonation is a little bit lighter than I suspect was intended. What carbonation is there is light and creamy, which allows the beer to really mellow on the tongue and lets me feel the full weight of the body with each sip. There is a sweet stickiness after each sip. This is definitely on my list of beers to go back and have again, especially fresh, if it becomes available.

On draft at Peg’s during Berliner Bash. SO excited to finally try this one. It brings me hope that maybe one day I will be able to try RareR Dos or Funky Dos. Maybe I am a fool for hoping, but so it goes. Pours a dark stout brown/ near black with a tan head. Nose is goodness- roasted malts, whiskey, tiny hints of booze, vanilla, wood, chocolate, and some smores. Flavor is similar- fudge all over, vanilla, whiskey, wood, love, and hints of mallow. Gets better as it warms- the wood character backs off a bit. Really nice- one of the better BA stouts, more balanced- not nearly as boozy as some others in this style.

Tap at Peg’s Cantina. Near ink pour with rich, reverse cascade mocha head. Not too much lace. Nose is tawny, black pepper, bourbon richness, melted fudge. Taste is quite rich and on style- buttery bourbon, melted dark chocolate fudge, vanilla. Spicy wood finish. A bit dry through the end. Still, quite delicious. Really like the palate on this one. Doesn’t really improve as it warms.

On draft at Peg’s, ured a dark black color, aromas of chocolate, coffee, bourbon, and some light vanilla. Flavors are big bold coffee, chocolate, and bourbon. As the beer warmed in the Florida sun more of the bourbon flavor comes out.

UPDATED: MAY 21, 2012 Lots of malted chocolate syrup flavors but not too sweet and well balanced. Really enjoyable from the small sample size I had.