Stillwater Import Series Vol. 3 ’Jaded’

Stillwater Artisanal
Brewed at De Struise Brouwers
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Baltimore, Maryland USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Jet black with a large white hoad. Very thick feel. Roasted malt, chocolate, and caramel give it an almost stoutish feel.

Draught @ CBC. Pours deep golden with a offwhite head. Aroma of malt, caramel, nuts, dark fruits, alcohol. Flavor is rich malts, caramel, nuts, sweetness, dark fruits, light hops, alcohol. Full body, soft carbonation, warming alcoholic finish. 040513

Sample from tap, CBC 2013. Hazy,almost muddy brown colour with a small off-white head. Sweet aroma with yeasts, dark, dried fruits, candid sugar, spices and rich caramel malts. Full body, sticky, soft carbonation. Finishes longlasting, lightly bitter with a rich sweet fruitiness lurking behind. A hint of alcohol. Interesting.

Bottle pours a light brown with orange hues, small fluffy white head, and no lacing. Aroma includes bubblegum, banana, and rose water. Taste begins with peppery and floral notes leading to hints of banana and burnt caramel. Crisp finish with slight booziness and flavors lingering.

Nose is caramel, ripe banana, toffee. Taste is caramel, dark soured fruits, figs, dates. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Draft. Dark unclear chestnut. With great lace. Aroma is light sweet white bread, a little funk, not ripe pears, and flowers. Similar flavors with a dusty and lightly spicy bitterness after a pear fruity sweet start. Nice slick mf. Great beer

Dried fruits, some fresh hops, candy. Dark red brown with small beige head. Dark ipa’ish hops, sweet raisin malts with some sour malts as well. Medium body. Bittersweet finish.

Bottle at Brasserie V. Unfiltered amber-brown body. Big off-white/beige head. Sweet raisin, dark fruit pungent aroma, quite intense, Quad-like. Brown sugar and dark fruit all the way. Pretty nice beer, maybe a little sugar forward. Funky burnt chocolate, sort of an Eastern European feel at times. Fruit and nut overload. Lacks subtlety, but makes up for it in quality and richness. Prune. Not as balanced and smooth as other Stillwater beers, but very Belgian. OK. Tastes like an Imperial Belgian Buckwheat ale.

Max’s Taphouse, Baltimore cask: I tried samples of this from tap and cask and opted for the cask, which I got poured into an imperial pint (oh my!). Pours a dark brown with a beige head. Aroma is molasses, fruits, spice, and a good bit of yeast. Alcohol is quite high, but is also quite well covered. That being said, there is certainly a bite in this. Some burnt flavor in there with the molasses. Loads of fruit. Hella lot of maltiness. I got a hangover a few hours later, but it was worth it. Good beer.

Cask. Pours hazy amber with thick, creamy white head; decent retention and lacing. aroma is lavender, bread and cereal malts, floral notes, grassy hops, light spice, and some Belgian yeast. flavor is bready malts forward with good supporting spicy and grassy hops, dry wood, and light yeast; dry finish. Medium body and low carbonation.