Samuel Adams (Barrel Room Collection) Thirteenth Hour Stout
A dark Belgian-style stout with notes of spice, coffee, chocolate & oak
The 13th Hour Is The Witching Hour and a time when strange brews can occur
With 13 ingredients, we combine the roasted chocolate and coffee notes of a stout with the complex spicy character of a Belgian-style ale aged in oak for a dark, robust, and bewitching brew.
The 13th Hour Is The Witching Hour and a time when strange brews can occur
With 13 ingredients, we combine the roasted chocolate and coffee notes of a stout with the complex spicy character of a Belgian-style ale aged in oak for a dark, robust, and bewitching brew.
3.5
493 reviews
Boston, United States
Community reviews
Opaque, lasting head. Crisp, sweet, low bitterness. Dense flavor, none asserting itself pver others, avg length.
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(750ml bottle) Pours a mahogany body with a small beige head. Aroma of mint, chocolate, raisins, and vanilla. Flavor of chocolate, plum, brown sugar, banana, coffee, mint, and caramel.
Bottle - Pours dark brown to black...creamy offwhite head. Coffee, chocolate muffin, nuts; spicy character, vanilla... hops in the finish. Somewhat sweet.
Bottle: Poured a dark black color ale with a large light brown foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of roasted malt with some chocolate notes and fruity ester from the yeast is pretty awesome. Taste is a nice mix of roasted malt with loads of black chocolate notes and some residual sugar with nice fruity ester notes. Body is about average with good carbonation. Pretty solid take on the Belgian style stout IMHO.
We think that this is a bad bottle as it has a sour edge to it. Pretty far from an imperial stout. Disappointed.
Not a big fan of the barrel series as a rule. This is the one exception. Pours dark burgundy with a nice fluffy head. Nice Belgian-style taste with chocolate notes and a good barrel flavor. Coffee flavor is less pronounced than advertised.
I was excited to try this - an oak-barrel aged, dark stout with coffee, chocolate and more. Served it chilled but not cold, so the best flavor and aroma would stand out.
What I met at the nose, then sipped, was sour, yeasty and unappealing. The excessive carbonation and yeast masked any other flavors.
I kept quiet,as the three other tasters sipped theirs. Offered to add a splash to their glasses. All refused. We poured out the rest.
Bomber. Pours a dark brown with a tan head and aroma of strong oak and spices. Taste is of oak and spices as well, with dark fruits, raisins, chocolate, and coffee notes into the finish.
Pours a rich black pour with a huge Java colored head. Nose is malt, chocolate and oak . Taste is full of oak with some tartness and alcohol, and a nice confluence of spices . Ends on the oaky alcohol notes with a tart finish. Nice . Quaff Score 8 / 10
1pt 9.4fl oz bottle poured into an English pint. Deep ruby with a thick tan head. Strong alcohol aroma fills the air on the pour. Upon further inspection, oak barrel, caramel, figs, and vanilla make themselves known. The flavor consists mainly of coffee, oak, and big alcohol. This is definitely a sipper. Reminds me more of a bourbon than a beer. Though an interesting brew, the strong alcohol presence prevents me from really enjoying it.
It says stout, but seems more like a porter. The first swig is awesome with hints of bourbon, but then it becomes sour after a few sips. Got it for $11 a pint. Tasted on 3/10/2014
Negro con reflejos caoba y espuma beis ligera. Aromas de chocolate, acidez de fruto rojo equilibrado. Cuerpo medio-alto con sabor achocolatado, acidez redonda, afrutada y fresca y final entre seco de brett y ligeramente tostado.
Lives up to its name...pours a dark almost pitch black with big brown fluffy head. Aromas of coffee, chocolate, and some smoke. Flavors of astringent chocolate, coffee, and tobacco.
This beer seems to be too many places at once and can’t make up it’s mind on what it is. 750 ml bottle, nice barrel shaped bottle. I have been really happy with the Sam Adams barrel series in the past but this is different. Aroma of bubblegum, caramel, bread, hay, spices,very strange for a stout. Has a candied, fruity flavor, not much roast or toast, strong alcohol presence, slight smoke, phenol character. There is a coffee and chocolate character but it’s lost in the shuffle. More like a dark Belgian strong ale that is confused.
Bottle - pours dark brown tan head. Foamy - nose/taste of cocoa, dark fruit, coffee, oak and bubblegum - medium body.
Bottle from Trembling Madness, York. Inky black in colour with a thick head of white foam. It has a spicy, rich cherry, red berry and oak flavour followed by smooth chocolate, liquorice, vanilla and red fruit on the smooth finish. Excellent!
bottle at Fresh Thyme / Newport KY --- Aroma of malt and light spice. Clear dark mahogany brown, dark tan head, light lace strips. Taste is carbonated malt that is immediately accosted by Christmas spices. A smidgen of coffee and chocolate show in a short finish. Spice dominates this brew for me, leaving it unbalanced, like food that has too much seasoning.
Shared 25. 4 oz. bottle poured to snifters, showing a black/brown hue, with a presentable layer of light tan head foam, and spots & clingy spray of lacing. The nose was prune & fig, with cocoa, a touch of dark caramel sweetness, spices, and just a bit of coffee on the back. Medium+ bodied, with moderate carbonation, the taste was similar notes, adding an extra fruit note of dark grape skins, with a bit of tannic astringency to the finish. A pleasant blend of Stout notes, with a Quad-like nature.
Poured from 750ml bottle.
Opaque, black-brown with a huge tan head and good lacing.
Aroma of berries, dark fruit, menthol, yeast, chocolate, alcohol and a light spiciness.
Taste of slightly sour berries, chocolate, dark fruit, menthol, coffee, yeast, alcohol, oak and roasted malt.
Full/medium body and medium/low carbonization with a slightly slick mouthfeel.
Cool shaped caged-corked bomber into snifter glass; opaque deep dark brown (black) color with tan head. Aroma notes of yeasty fruitiness, cherry, chocolate, vanilla, lightly vinous, roast and caramel. Taste adds coffee, molasses, chocolate nougat, dark fruits (prune heavy), some raisins, light oak and faint Belgian spices. Heavy-medium body, moderate carbonation, sticky, tad dry with lingering fruity roast finish. Interesting dark Belgian stout, need to know there’s a fruity-sour element going into it.
I really enjoyed this beer. Good combination of fruit and chocolate. Well balanced.
Shared 25.4 oz. bottle. Pours dark brown with a beige, airy cola-like head. Aroma of chocolate, yeast, booze, dark fruit, and a bit of sourness. Tastes of Belgian yeast, mild chocolate, oak, a bit of booze, and a bit of dark fruit; no single flavor dominates. Finish is slightly tart. A complex beer, but unfortunately, the whole is considerably less than the sum of its individual components.
Aroma: malty, coffee notes; Appearance: black with tan head; large bubbles dissipate fairly quickly; Taste: unexpectedly sour for a stout and not in a pleasant way, although it does mellow after sitting for awhile; some Belgian yeasty undertones; Palate: medium body with a bitter/sour finish; Overall: very disappointing; would not buy again.
Somewhere in NOVA probably a total wine: pours dark brown with a light beige head. Aroma is chocolate, vanilla, tree, and roast and yeast. Taste is pretty sweet and creamy. Not particulary roasty or bitter. Alcohol is well covered though it can certainly be felt. Kind of fruity actually like a BSA. Gets you a bit crunk.
Bottle 750 ml
Aroma: deep vinous with noticeable barrel tartness to it. Whiff of heat on top. Plum, molasses and dark caramel.
Look: poured as dark brown with initial large foamy tanned cap. Receded quickly into light fizzy fizz.
Body and Palate: heavy with average carbonation. Mid plus finish. Thad thin on walls.
Taste: front id straight prune spread, barrel walls with tannin notes behind. Mellow sipping darkness with short burst of vodka.
Bottle thanks to James, 30/12/15.
Black with a decent tan covering.
Nose is dark fruits, toffee, light menthol, spice, jammy berry fruit, light chocolate.
Taste comprises rich dark fruits, spice, dates, toffee, yeast esters, nana, light chocolate.
Full bodied, prickly carbonation but aids the drinkability, light warming booze in the close.
Ok ... more a Belgian strong for me, an adequate one at that. Low end for an impy.
750ml bottle, pours black with a tan crema. Tart treacley nose with hints of old wine. Roasty and lambic-tart, with undertones of candy sugar and coffee, light oaky notes and a burnt bitterness. As if you crossed a stout with a black lambic.
750ml bottle 12/2/15 (Sam’s Club-Box of 3)-38° in Snifter-Pours black with a tan head. Aroma is sweet and fruity. Taste of chocolate, coffee, alcohol, oak, and spices. This full bodied brew is a bit light for a stout as I wonder if it should have been a different style.
25.4oz bottle, corked and caged. Nose sweet and syrupy. heavy oak, spicy, molasses, maple syrup. Pours dark brown with ruby-brown highlights, but pitch in the glass with a large and fizzy-foamy tan head. Taste lightly tart (!), sweet, medium bitterness, strong wood, cherry gaining, red berry as well; very very light chocolate and coffee, spice and vanillin. Molasses, very classy maltiness with medium depth, very faint but still-fresh citrus. Esters still strong here, plum gains as well, even getting some tropical fruits to blend so nicely with the wood. Roast is subdued. Overall character begs if its been Bretted and back-sweetened or just infected; touch leathery, and with spicy/scratchy cherry character, reminds more of a Flanders Red than a stout (a really pleasant surprise for my personal taste). Medium body, crisp and invigorating, alcohol well-integrated, dry finish with occasional hint of metal, overall a pleasure to drink. Nice surprise for the holiday! [2015.11.26: 3.7]