Samuel Adams (Barrel Room Collection) Thirteenth Hour Stout

Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Serve in Snifter

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Bottled@vPBFII. Black colour, small brown thich creamy head which vanishes quite quickly though. Aroma is raisins, some alcohol, ripe fruits and some toffee. Flavour is ripe fruits, plum, alcohol, mild toast, and very sweet.

Bottle. Pours a black color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity roasted malty chocolate and dark fruit aroma. Fruity roasted malty slightly vinous chocolate and dark fruit flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate finish.

Name: Thirteenth Hour
Date: April 07, 2012
Mode: Bottle
Source: Hop City, Atlanta
Appearance: opaque dark brown, fine tan head, bits of lace
Aroma: sweet and fruity aroma, chocolate, light spicy phenols
Flavor: sweet fruity flavor, lots of fruity esters, dark fruits, mostly sweet with very little spicyness of bitterness, touch of alcohol adds to the sweetness
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+ /4

750ml bottle-pours black with a tight tan head. Aroma is wood, dark fruit-dark cherry, medium/dark malt-some chocolate, spice. Taste is roasty dark malt/oat-chocolate, wood, 2nd spice hops, yeast, some dark fruit. Full body, plenty of carbonation. As it warms, licorice comes in on the aroma and taste.

750 c&c from BevMo in Folsom, CA. Pours very dark brown with a foamy/fizzy light tan head. Aromas of yeast/spice, cacao, and wood. Med body or better. Flavor has yeast/spice, dark fruit, dark chocolate, espresso. It’s very "fresh". Finishes with coffee bitterness. And with oaky astringency. Don’t think there’s any booze associated with the oak. Seem purely oak. Which is ok. A mild and flavorful beer which provides no hint of a 9% ABV. Likely to be deadly drinkable.

Bottle. Poured a dark brown color with a minimal frothy light brown head that diminished with little lacing. Moderate to heavy dark fruit, chocolate and coffee aroma. Nedium to full body with a smooth texture and flat carbonation. Medium to heavy sweet roasted black coffee malty flavor with a medium to heavy sweet and small wood and alcohol finish of moderate to long duration. This is a complex good beer.

A deep dark Belgian stout with a thick brown head. In aroma, sweet dark fruits with licorice and molasses, woody notes, light Brett, nice. In mouth, a nice smooth chocolate and plums, Brett, molasses, aniseed, quite nice. Tasted with GRM, Probstblueribbon and Ian, July 20 2012.

750ml caged and corked bottle. Poured a brown color with an averaged sized off white head. Aromas of earthy, chocolate, some dark fruits and I’m getting a trace of cinnamon. Tastes of chocolate, vanilla, roast, and the same trace of cinnamon.

On tap at Avery Sour Fest poured a clear dark brown with a small lasting brown head. Aromas of coffee, cola, light plum, light cherry and light spice. Palate was light bodied and crisp with a smooth dry finish. Flavors of cola, carmel, fruittiness and light spice with a smooth dry lingering cola finish.

Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival 2011. Black beer, brown head. Malty vinous aroma, figs and raisins. Malty vinous flavor, tar and licorice, a bit sourish.