12 Anniversary Stout

Name: 12 Anniversary Stout
Brand: Fremont Brewing
Rating: 4.08 (111 reviews)

Fremont Brewing

Seattle, WA

Tavour Rating

4.08

Style

Imperial Stout

ABV

12.2%

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About This Beer

To craft their special anniversary Imperial Stout, Fremont blended 3 different Barrel Aged Stouts, bringing an array of nuance in this celebratory batch:

The first, aged in 8-10-year-old Heaven Hill bourbon barrels

The second, aged in 8-10-year-old Heaven Hill bourbon barrels with tart Montmorency and dark tart cherries

The third, aged in ex-bourbon vanilla extract barrels!

Tasting Notes

This intensely sweet vintage could stretch a sly smile across the face of the biggest Grinch! Notes of gooey caramel, mocha, and belly-warming booze envelop your palate with cherries bursting from each sip with a bright, fruity pop!

Roasty Malty Sweet Fruity Toasty Okay

Noteworthy Ingredients

Bourbon Barrels

Reviews

4.08

111 Ratings

corey1078

4.5

very good - the Cherry is a nice addition to a great smooth base

johndubo

4.25

Dark, smooth and flavorful. Not super thick but really tasty.

JYoung

4.25

Heavy cherry

chris5323

0.5

cough syrup

Joner25

4.25

Whilst the cherry is rather subtle to me, it’s also more like real cherry as opposed to cherry flavour. The vanilla and bourbon barrel ageing flavours come through more so.

alex4625

4.75

Cherry beers require a delicate balance. Unfortunately the cherry, I think, is lacking only a tad, which is usually the opposite of the case. But what I really liked about this one, was the vanilla extract barrel age that provides the purest vanilla flavor in anything I've ever tasted.

benjamin691

5.0

Fremont always impresses

walter374

3.75

good cherry beer, on its own from the gate.

nick2711

4.5

Very good

Tullyfinn

4.25

chocolate and cherry up front and lots of cherry finish

MikeVitale42

4.75

Mmmmm. That’s good stuff! Dark, rich, and cherries! Nice stout, this one.

Mad0gg13

4.25

fruity

Rowland

4.75

just an excellent stout with a well balanced flavor combination. love the Cherry presence which isn’t overpowering.

Landrover007

4.0

Solid stout imo

charles1947

3.75

surprised how intense the cherry is. was figuring it’d be a bit more subtle. tasty stuff but not my favorite.

scotty26

1.0

tasted like NyQuil

Mike_F

4.5

Didn’t get any cherry, but the smooth stout and vanilla were decadent

uber

4.25

good

Galos11

3.25

cherry was too overpower

corby1967

4.5

very tasty; rich blend

ryan220

4.25

strong complex

grace

4.25

not too bad but have definitely had better, as far as Fremont and as far as cherry BA stouts

Ljfricke25

4.25

caramel

terry709

4.5

so smooth, cherry compliments surprisingly well.

calbear

4.25

Great blend of malts and bourbon. Caramel flavors poke through and cherries lightly float in at the end.

blake949

1.0

dumped. one of the worst beers I’ve had. straight medicine. buyer beware.

daniel7043

4.75

very smooth and the cherries are subtle but very good !

mar19

3.25

cherry in beer is stating to grow on me. a wee bit thin, but delicious

Kuga

4.25

cherry bomb. tasty and wish I got more!

jtwallen

4.25

Delicious, well balanced and well made!

EricRThompson

4.25

If you like chocolate and cherries, this one's for you!

michael15308

2.0

tasted like someone poured some cough syrup into my beer

darundgren

4.0

Another tasty Fremont, but unsurprisingly the cherries gave this one a tiny bit of extra sweetness that downgraded it ever so slightly for me.

MattBarleyWiner

4.5

amazing

zach2412

4.25

wonderfully crafted cherry dessert stout

andy2118

5.0

Incredible. I can’t find anything wrong with it. Smooth,creamy, sweet, spicy. You get a nice bourbon flavor without being too overpowering. Well balanced with a great finish. I’ll miss this one