7 Deadly Stouts

Review Date 1/19/2025  By John Staradumsky

           

Freebie night at Taco Mac! That’s right! Everything is free tonight. Well, not for everyone, you see, but free for me, and that my friends is good enough. I say this because tonight I am covering my check with Holiday Bonus Cards I got at Christmas. I bought some Taco Mac gift cards and was gifted some, and for every $50 purchase you get a $10 bonus card. I have enough to cover about three trips here, so what’s better than that? I know. Enough to cover four trips here.

Anyway, I saved the best for last, and finished up my visit with a glass of 7 Deadly Stouts Imperial Stout, part of the Garage Series from Monday Night Brewing. I will let the brewery tell you a little bit about it and how it got that name.

7 Deadly Stouts is a truly indulgent stout with 666 lbs of Ugandan vanilla beans, toasted coconut bark, toasted hazelnuts, coffee, Ghirardelli milk chocolate wafers, and Saigon cinnamon bark. This is a stout seven ways, each representing a different sin, aged in a blend of Scotch, rum, tequila, bourbon, maple bourbon, Cognac, and Apple Brandy barrels. Honestly, we’re not sure you can handle it. You should probably put it back on the shelf and slowly walk away.

Had I been driving, I might have had to walk away from this one, due to the formidable 13.7% alcohol content by volume. Barely legal under Georgia law! Luckily, though, I left my car at home and took an Uber so there was no way I was going to pass on this rare treat. This was $12 for an 11-ounce glass, which I would gladly have paid, were everything not free tonight. Better still, they were out of clean 11-ounce glasses, so it was served in a pint glass, and I got a few bonus ounces. More free beer! Yay me!

My glass of 7 Deadly Stouts Imperial Stout arrived a jet-black color with a minimal head formation and dark roasty in the nose with vanilla and coconut. A sip: the beer is thick and luxuriant in texture as it rolls over the tongue. You get the dark roast and vanilla, wood, boozy bourbon, bright apple brandy, subtle maple, and a hint of rum. The beer is of course chocolaty and coffeeish but you have to pick that out in between all the boozy notes and at the last, there is an impressive alcohol warmth and more of the boozy barrel notes.

This was my last beer of the night, and I clearly saved the best for last. This beer is sold on tap and in bottles, and if I come across a bottle, I will certainly buy it.

Glad I tried it?  T

Would I rebuy it??

 

*Pricing data accurate at time of review or latest update. For reference only, based on actual price paid by reviewer.

(B)=Bottled, Canned

(D)=Draft





 

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