TORONTO, ON – Bellwoods Brewery has announced details of a new beer that has spent a carefully monitored year in rum barrels before being bottled for release this week.
Skeleton Key is a 13% abv spiced and barrel-aged Imperial stout this is described as follows:
Intended to be a Bellwoods take on spiced rum, we added a melange of ginger, all spice, black pepper, cardamom, cinnamon, star anise, nutmeg, and juniper berries to barrels full of a velvety imperial stout, and allowed the concoction to age for a year. What has emerged is a refined, smooth, warming, and lethally delicious spiced stout that’ll induce sharp pangs of nostalgia long after your final bottle is empty.
Skeleton Key will be released this Friday (October 24th) at 11:00 AM in a limited run of 500 ml bottles available exclusively in the Bellwoods retail store. Pricing details have not been announced, but sales will be limited to 8 bottles per person.