White Chocolate - The Bruery

brentk56

North Carolina

4.08/5  rDev -3.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

Appearance: Pours a hazy honey color with a not unexpectedly small head (given the high ABV); leaves just a few spots behind

Smell: As the beer warms, it really takes on the white chocolate aromatics; plenty of boozy elements to tingle the nostrils

Taste: Caramel cookie dough, up front, with a growing astringent Rum-like boozy character, in the middle, that brings along the coconut and vanilla flavors; after the swallow, the Bourbon and sweet malts dominate but it is in the aftertaste that the white chocolate really comes through

Mouthfeel: Full bodied with low carbonation; plenty of heat in the gullet

Overall: Fascinating to see what the Bruery did with this one; too big and boozy for its own good but worth a share with others

Thanks, BigTomZ, for the opportunity

Serving type: bottle

02-10-2013 12:50:17 | More by brentk56

soldat329x

Illinois

4.5/5  rDev +6.6%

06-19-2013 00:46:50 | More by soldat329x

claaark13

Indiana

3.75/5  rDev -11.1%

06-17-2013 15:05:40 | More by claaark13

Phillyz

Pennsylvania

5/5  rDev +18.5%

06-16-2013 06:52:12 | More by Phillyz

BWH999

California

5/5  rDev +18.5%

06-16-2013 05:34:55 | More by BWH999

mportnoy

Pennsylvania

5/5  rDev +18.5%

06-16-2013 05:32:56 | More by mportnoy

vicsju1991

Pennsylvania

4.99/5  rDev +18.2%
look: 4.75 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

shared with three others poured from bottle into stout glass
A - small white head that disappears quickly, medium coppery brown colour, kind of looks like a cider
S - vanilla, chocolate, some boozy notes but not to heavy
T - follows the nose, very choclatey, not much alcohol heat at all, theres a tiny bit of coconut in it as well
m - smooth, easy to drink
O - very delicious beer, im a big fan of wheatwines, although I don't get to try many

Serving type: bottle

06-16-2013 00:19:11 | More by vicsju1991

zestar

California

3.75/5  rDev -11.1%

06-14-2013 08:11:30 | More by zestar

CAbeerCAbeerCA

California

5/5  rDev +18.5%

06-14-2013 05:47:38 | More by CAbeerCAbeerCA

ShanePB

Pennsylvania

4.5/5  rDev +6.6%

06-13-2013 11:59:12 | More by ShanePB

cofeeguru

Minnesota

4.5/5  rDev +6.6%

06-12-2013 20:49:33 | More by cofeeguru

Ayelikebeer

Illinois

4.5/5  rDev +6.6%

06-11-2013 01:35:31 | More by Ayelikebeer

Retail1LO

Pennsylvania

4.25/5  rDev +0.7%

06-11-2013 00:15:42 | More by Retail1LO

truthcontortion

Ohio

4.25/5  rDev +0.7%

06-10-2013 16:32:09 | More by truthcontortion

xnicknj

Pennsylvania

4.29/5  rDev +1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

750mL bottle poured into FW mini-snifter - thanks to egadbananas

Glowing light golden pour with a thin bone white head resting on top. Specks of lacing dot the glass while drinking.

Like a boozy dessert in a glass - assorted scents of birthday cake, vanilla, bourbon, oak, caramel, coconut and syrup. Sweet and warm.

Booze-soaked white chocolate right up front, punctuated by a variety of decadent, warm, sweet flavors. Drizzled in honey and syrup, the vanilla beans combine with oak and bourbon for continuing warmth. Birthday cake, vanilla icing, caramel and a thick wheat backbone. Full flavored, for sure, wildly sweet, but incredibly flavorful throughout.

Full bodied, milder carbonation, creamy, sticky and soft on the tongue. Similar to what others have said, this beer is wildly expressive and flavorful, although insanely sweet and rich. We split a bottle between 4 people and finished every drop.

Serving type: bottle

06-10-2013 12:57:33 | More by xnicknj

cxr1037

California

4.19/5  rDev -0.7%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

Consumed on 6/8/13, paired with white chocolate bark.

Smells like someone dropped white chocolate into a bottle of bourbon. Obviously white chocolate, oak, bourbon.

Taste was much the same. This was a truly decadent beer! However, I don't know how often I could have something like this without getting sick. It tastes strong (which it most certainly is), and it's almost sickly sweet (though maybe that's because I was eating white chocolate alongside it!).

Mouthfeel was very pleasant. Moderate carbonation. It feels heavy in the mouth, but not like syrup, which is what I was thinking it would be like.

Overall a fantastic product. I would strongly recommend pairing this with white chocolate desserts. However, any more than the 4 or 5 ounces I had would probably result in me feeling quite ill.

Serving type: bottle

06-10-2013 02:06:08 | More by cxr1037

brother_kenneth

Virginia

4.75/5  rDev +12.6%

06-09-2013 23:11:56 | More by brother_kenneth

CheapBeerBuzz

California

3/5  rDev -28.9%

06-06-2013 03:31:38 | More by CheapBeerBuzz

savagepm

Colorado

4.5/5  rDev +6.6%

06-06-2013 01:34:07 | More by savagepm

maximum12

Minnesota

4.05/5  rDev -4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

Blessings on the alley of bigdaddypolite for this bottle, pulled from his stash as a Reserve Society member. As a card-carrying lover of wheatwines, this was high on my list. Now it's in my glass. 750ML bottle split with my wife.

The pour is an opaque apricot that borders on still water. Nose is wildly like White Bark Chocolate, along with a ton of vanilla & some caramel. My wife says it smells like my Belgian Waffles with bourbon maple syrup on them. I'm taking that as a complement.

White Chocolate resembles a wheatwine, & a beer, only to someone who might not know what those words mean in English; this is a huge beer. Bourbon is rampant, the white chocolate is a sweet blast on the tongue, & hand-cranked vanilla ice cream. Caramel present but bludgeoned to death by its overbearing neighbors. Wheat? None I can sense. Don't drink this near open flames, there's enough alcohol to make my eyes begin to glaze over. Amazingly smooth, almost creamy, slips down the throat with velvet ease. Pretty sure I could take down the whole bomber. Not so sure I could make it up two flights of stairs afterwards.

This 'beer' most closely resembles a fancy after-dinner chocolate liquer, both in taste, apparent alcohol content, & mouthfeel. The Bruery knows how to make big beer bombs, both the good kind & the bad. This is one of the former. Sneaking over the border of excellent.

Serving type: bottle

06-05-2013 02:38:59 | More by maximum12

sweemzander

Illinois

3.88/5  rDev -8.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.75

750mL waxed bottle poured into a snifter. Thanks to Matt for sharing!

(A)- Pours a hazy golden orange color. Produced some white froth and lacing.

(S)- So sweet! I totally get the name of this beer with the sheer and pure mountains of white chocolate this has in the aroma. One of the few times the name really does fit how the beer truly is.

(T)- Again, the name totally fits this. A huge sweet and rich white chocolate profile. Really no other way to describe this other than an immensely sweet, liquid alcoholic white chocolate.

(M)- A mellow carbonation level meets and extremely sweet white chocolate profile. Damn is this sweet though. Almost cloyingly too sweet for me.

(O)- This is so sugary sweet, but damn it does it fit the name perfectly. Very interesting to say the least. Very happy we split this 5 ways.

Serving type: bottle

06-04-2013 19:58:58 | More by sweemzander

MichiganderHB

Michigan

4.25/5  rDev +0.7%

06-04-2013 11:56:27 | More by MichiganderHB

GrindFatherBob

New York

5/5  rDev +18.5%

06-03-2013 18:58:59 | More by GrindFatherBob

henskejk

California

4.5/5  rDev +6.6%

06-03-2013 15:05:52 | More by henskejk

bird22

California

4.25/5  rDev +0.7%

06-03-2013 04:22:08 | More by bird22