The Peaks & Pints February Stout Month has been overrun — gleefully hijacked by none other than Count Dracula himself, though these days he demands you call him Stoutula. Somewhere over the centuries, the Transylvanian nobleman discovered the singular joy of blackened malt, and now he gulps only inky stouts, shunning blood as passé. Stoutula has seized our monthlong celebration with fang-baring delight, decreeing that every pint, every pour, every flight must be rich, roasted, and midnight-dark. Today’s offering is his latest mischief: Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Bottle Logic Stouts — a line of beers that look exactly like the kind of liquid a centuries-old vampire would hoard in candlelit cellars.
And who better to brew for such gothic excess than the Anaheim sorcerers at Bottle Logic Brewing? Born in 2013 when homebrewing friends Wes Parker, Steve Napolitano, and Brandon Buckner swapped their garage cauldrons for a 15-barrel experiment disguised as a brewery, Bottle Logic has always chased a “retro-future” aesthetic — chrome optimism straight out of post-war science fiction, when jetpacks and atomic unicycles still felt inevitable. Their tasting room glows like an alchemy lab where optimism and danger swirl in equal measure. And the beer? Bold enough to make the fantasy real. They’re famous for their barrel-aged pastry stouts — massive, decadent creations that taste like some unholy marriage of bourbon, dessert, and dark matter. Which makes perfect sense: if you’re going to drink with Stoutula, you better bring a stout that can bite back.
Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Bottle Logic Stouts
Bottle Logic Scatter Signal
12% ABV
This imperial mocha-marshmallow stout is a blend of liquid aged from 12 to 24 months in a medley of their favorite bourbon barrels. It was conditioned on the “Southern Weather” and “Monarch” blends of coffee beans roasted by Onyx Coffee Labs for a complex foundation of chocolate brownie and burnt sugar undertones. Cacao nibs bolster the chocolate front — a blend of Guatemalan and Filipino nibs was chosen specifically for the nutty, hot-chocolate-like flavors they impart. Marshmallows added in abundance for their softly sweet aroma, for a bounce of viscosity, and for the outright joy of it.
Bottle Logic Alchemy of Elements
14% ABV
Alchemy of Elements is an imperial stout brewed hundreds of pounds of raw and toasted coconut and fresh pineapple pieces layer in a glimmer of tropical acidity, and glowing rivulets of vibrant summer mango.
Bottle Logic Form Five
14.3% ABV
When Bottle Logic released their 2020 “Black is Beautiful” — part of the open-ended beer collaboration series that supports the National Black Brewers Association’s work in developing and growing Black brewers nationwide — Bottle Logic knew the chocolate-laden concept was destined for a barrel treatment, and with the help of Weathered Souls Brewing, produced a powerful liquid. Expect rivers of sweet milk chocolate traveling through a decadent, dark chocolate tunnel of Ecuadorian and Filipino cacao nibs. Sparks of toffee and fig zip through bold layers of oak and bourbon, offering balance and character.
Bottle Logic Cephalophilosophy
14.9% ABV
Harland Brewing helped brew this inky imperial stout brewed with ube and maple syrup, taking it up to a massive 38º plato starting gravity. After 14 months in bourbon barrels, they finished this alluring liquid on house-roasted pecans and cinnamon sticks.
Bottle Logic Scramjet
15.3% ABV
Inspired by the clandestine echoes of “Project Aurora,” this bourbon barrel-aged peanut butter cup-inspired imperial rye stout is a nod to the mysterious and elusive. House-roasted peanuts, silky-sweet chocolate, and 60 pounds of peanut butter cups were recirculated through their Darkstar November imperial stout base, enveloped in its tractor beam of molasses, bourbon, and oak. Lightly carbonated with a full-bodied gravitational pull, each sip is a close encounter with interstellar decadence.
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