Name: Seven Layer Magic Bar Stout
Brewer: WeldWerks Brewing Co. (United States)
Style: Mixed-Style Beer (Base Style: Sweet Stout)
ABV: 7.5%
Review Year: 2020
The Seven Layer Magic Bar Stout is an enchanting concoction by the award-winning craft brewery from Colorado, WeldWerks Brewing Co. This “milk stout” features milk chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, white chocolate chips, toasted coconut, macadamia nuts, graham cracker, and sweetened condensed milk. This review summarizes our experience of drinking this beer earlier this year.
STYLE GUIDELINES
This beer is being evaluated as a Mixed-Style Beer (34B), combining Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer (30A) and Alternative Sugar Beer (31B), with Sweet Stout (16A)as the base style in the context of the 2015 Beer Style Guidelines of the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP). The most current version of the guidelines can be found on the BJCP website.
TASTING NOTES
Dark ruby brown, almost black; mocha-colored head with poor retention. Prominent aromas of chocolate chip cookies, cola, and chocolate syrup; subtle impressions of butterscotch and caramel. Medium-bodied; moderate carbonation. Flavors of chocolate brownies and pancake syrup up front, albeit relatively tamed; slight tartness akin to grapes and cacao maltiness underneath. Coffee-like bitterness and toasted coconut are present but are relatively the most subtle. A duality of cacao nibs and milk chocolate lingers.
THE VERDICT
The Seven Layer Magic Bar Stout is a fragrant and tasty brew that highlights a wide range of chocolate-inspired qualities presented in a very palatable manner. This was in contrast to our a priori expectation of this beer bombarding our palates with overpowering sugary sweetness.
The characteristics expected from the macadamia nuts and graham crackers did not surface explicitly, but the mentioned chocolate-derived characteristics alongside the subtle toasted coconut were sufficient in our opinion. While we enjoyed this, we think a slightly more fortified body would add to the charm. Very good.
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