Origin of Darkness with Vitamin Sea Brewing

Name: Origin of Darkness with Vitamin Sea Brewing
Brand: Collective Arts Brewing
Rating: 4.1 (420 reviews)

Collective Arts Brewing

East Weymouth, MA

Tavour Rating

4.1

Style

Barrel Aged Stout

ABV

10.3%

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About This Beer

To craft this first class brew, the renowned, Canadian crew at Collective Arts teamed up with Massachusetts’ Vitamin Sea Brewing. They started by brewing a roasty Stout rife with cocoa and coffee notes. Then they aged the brew on Collective Arts’ self-roasted coffee beans for 3 months.

They poured a little cream and sugar into the coffee in the form of lactose and Demerara sugar before aging the beer in dark rum barrels. Finally, they added Speculoos (airplane cookies) and almonds for swaths of comforting, gingerbread like flavor.

Tasting Notes

Every sip soars with cozy, café opulence before descending into nuts and spice — like a biscotti dipped in mocha chased by dark chocolate coated almonds!

Rich Nutty Chocolatey Spicy

Noteworthy Ingredients

Lactose Coffee Rum Barrel Almonds

Reviews

4.1

420 Ratings

August1982

4.0

very good

alex4625

4.75

Dark, THICC, creamy, coffee, windmill cookies!!, rum, faint ginger, lactosy, and oddly almonds. Sweet, but not oversweet, which is a huge plus. It's a very good, solid stout. There's no aspect of it that disappoints me other than the coffee, but that's a personal preference.

misael503

3.0

the taste was definitely a surprise. but not as sweet as I assumed being aged in rum. coffee taste was still overwhelming.

christopher4978

5.0

barrel aged greatness! Amazing flavors on the taste! coffee, vanilla, even some cookie taste. OMG! I should have bought more of these!

matt7707

4.75

one of my favorites. bold color great flavor dark and thick I was very impressed!

MikeVitale42

4.0

Slight rum atop stronger cookie and meager coffee flavors.

NWTRAX

4.25

I thought this might be too sweet for me but it has good balance. Well done.

snoozilla

4.5

Smooth, sweet, dark. Perfect sipping beer for when you're craving a rich dessert.

seongheon

2.5

I thought it was Sour Stout after drinking it.