Spice Herb or Vegetable Beer

BrewDog x Evil Twin “Roaster Coaster” Nitro Imperial Vietnamese Coffee Stout

Name: Roaster Coaster Brewers: BrewDog (United Kingdom/ United States), Evil Twin Brewing (Denmark/ United States) Style: Mixed-Style Beer (Base Style: Sweet Stout) ABV: 9% Review Year: 2020 BrewDog and Evil Twin teamed up for Roaster Coaster, a “Nitro Imperial Vietnamese Coffee Stout” that, as the name suggests, features mainly nitrogen and coffee. STYLE GUIDELINES This beer …

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Tired Hands “Memory Care” Salted Chocolate & Lavender Coffee Stout

Name: Memory Care Brewer: Tired Hands Brewing Co. (United States) Style: Mixed-Style Beer (Base Style: Imperial Stout) ABV: 12.3% Review Year: 2020 Memory Care is a “Salted Chocolate & Lavender Coffee Stout” concocted by Tired Hands Brewing Co. (Pennsylvania). This “Coffee Stout” was brewed with dark specialty and caramel malts, together with a generous helping of flaked oats …

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Calusa “Imperial Dissonance” Imperial Brown Ale

Name: Imperial Dissonance Brewer: Calusa Brewing (United States) Style: Experimental Beer (Base Style: American Brown Ale) ABV: 10.7% Review Year: 2020 Imperial Dissonance is the bigger and more potent version of the Dissonance Brown Ale by Calusa Brewing of Sarasota, Florida. This “Imperial Brown Ale” is a complex beer that features coffee and Saigon cinnamon. STYLE GUIDELINES This …

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The Finback x Bottle Logic Omura Trilogy

Omura is a massive Imperial Stout brewed by Bottle Logic Brewing (California) and Finback Brewery (New York) sometime in 2019. This behemoth was aged in Willet bourbon barrels for 10 months and manifested in three versions– Black, Orange, and White– each featuring different combinations of ingredients such as chocolate, coffee, orange, cinnamon, coconut, and almonds. …

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Bottle Logic “Reaction State 2019” Imperial Breakfast Stout

Name: Reaction State 2019 Brewer: Bottle Logic Brewing (United States) Style: Mixed-Style Beer (Base Style: Imperial Stout) ABV: 12% Review Year: 2020 Reaction State 2019 is the second batch of the “Imperial Breakfast Stout” released by Bottle Logic Brewing (California). This massive dark ale, which weighs in at 12% ABV, was aged in a combination of maple syrup …

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Nerdbrewing “Override (2020)” Imperial Chocolate Milkshake Stout

Name: Override (2020) Brewer: Nerdbrewing (Sweden) Style: Mixed-Style Beer (Base Style: Imperial Stout) ABV: 10.5% Review Year: 2020 Override is an “Imperial Milk Stout” aged on roasted cacao nibs and vanilla brewed by the Swedish stout mafia, Nerdbrewing. Nerdbrewing was founded in 2015 by Hannes Gruber and Karin Carlsson. A successful homebrewer, Hannes has won …

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Highland Park Brewery x Horus Aged Ales “242 MPH” Imperial Stout

Name: 242 MPH Brewer: Highland Park Brewery, Horus Aged Ales (United States) Style: Mixed-Style Beer (Base Style: Imperial Stout) ABV: 13.5% Review Year: 2020 242 MPH is an Imperial Stout brewed by Highland Park Brewery in collaboration with Horus Aged Ales. This Imperial Stout was brewed with massive amounts of coconut and some cherrywood. STYLE GUIDELINES This beer is being …

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WeldWerks “Starry Night” Milk Stout

Name: Starry Night Brewer: WeldWerks Brewing Co. (United States) Style: Spice, Herb or Vegetable Beer (Base Style: Sweet Stout) ABV: 7.5% Review Year: 2020 We revisit Starry Night, a “milk stout” we encountered earlier this year. Brewed by the award-winning Colorado craft brewery, WeldWerks Brewing Co., Starry Night is a “milk stout” that features hazelnut, toasted coconut, milk …

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The Marc’s & Tony Brewing x Candid Coffee “Coffee IPA”

Name: Coffee IPA Brewer: The Marc’s & Tony Brewing Co. (Philippines) Style: Spice, Herb, or Vegetable (SHV) Beer (Base Style: American IPA) ABV: 7% Review Year: 2020 The Coffee IPA is one of two coffee-infused beers made by the Antipolo-based The Marc’s & Tony Brewing Co. in collaboration with Candid Coffee. As the name suggests, this …

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Magpie “Duck Ale / 덕후선생 덕 에일” Kettle Sour

Name: Duck Ale / 덕후선생 덕 에일 Brewer: Magpie Brewing Co. (South Korea) Style: Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer (Base Style: Historical Beer: Gose) ABV: 5% Review Year: 2020 Duck Ale (덕후선생 덕 에일) is a kettle sour beer by Magpie Brewing Co. from Jeju Island. Brewed with cucumber distillate and Sichuan peppercorn, this beer takes after Ghost, …

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