Barrel-Aged Calavera Stout
Zipline Brewing Co.
Lincoln, NE
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About This Beer
Fans clamour for this release every year, and there’s never enough to go around. It cellars fantastically well, gaining more chocolatey flavor while subduing the spice.
Tasting Notes
It’s like a spiked Mexican hot chocolate — a little sweet, a little spicy, plenty of fudgy goodness, and a bit of roasty coffee. It’s also incredibly smooth for 11% ABV.
Roasty
Sweet
Smooth
Spicy
Fudgy
Noteworthy Ingredients
Bourbon Barrels
Cacao Nibs
Vanilla
Cinnamon
Chili Peppers
Reviews
4.12
292 Ratings
miranda3
2.5
All spice, no depth.
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caroline
4.0
Very pungent and slaps you in the face with flavor! This one is definitely for a sophisticated palette!
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eric15
3.0
Too spicy for me!
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patrick37
4.25
Loved the Spicy taste at the end and variety of flavors on front end. Will buy again.
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nosaddle69
4.0
A little burn in the throat.
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Bdailey28
3.25
Spicy
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Illy
4.0
BA goes well with this beer
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calbear
3.75
Bourbon dominates the initial flavor with a slow late heat in the back of the throat. Minor cinnamon notes but vanilla disappears too quickly below the whiskey and heat. Good choice with ginger molasses cookies.
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todd1086
4.25
Great mix of all flavors! Spicy thick and bold with a boozy kick.
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cory14
5.0
Insanely well balanced stout with a perfect amount of chili burn on the back-end. Extremely impressed with this beer. It showed an incredible amount of finesse
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charles37
4.0
One of my favorite chili beers. I prefer a little more great, but it was so well balanced that I didn't care.
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Dinosrock
3.75
Good tasting stout but doesn’t live up to the flavors. Definitely need the peppers to come thru more
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Mikester08
3.0
The spice was surprising but it seemed to be all this had.
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BcOneSeven
4.0
Smooooth!
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HoppyHildegard
4.75
The only thing keeping it from scoring a perfect score is alcohol warmth was high on the finish. That might have been enhanced but the heat of the peppers, but it distracted from the drinkability.
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Arh82881
2.0
Too heavy. Coats the glass. Had it compared to Prairie Artisan Christmas Ale. Both beers had similar tasting notes and close ABV. Compared to Prairie Artisan this beer lacks depth and flavor notes.
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Chadbo
3.75
Sweet, chocolate, vanilla, spicy, barrel.
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