1 ratings
Grimdark
16.0% Imperial Flavoured Stout / Imperial Pastry Stout
Barrel aged
Reviews
WexiLahti
@ Crooked Run Fermentation6 months ago
4.8
Another big one in 6 oz size. The appearance is perverted: looks like hot chocolate!
🤎🤎🤎 Massively sludgy, superdeep brown. The carbonation is a joke. So is the head. Can't remember if there was a head but it moved to history more or less immediately. Looks flat as hell.
Oohhh my Lord! What a lovely scent! Bourbon is obvious, even copious, but by no means overwhelming. Rather soft and smooth. Barrel notes can't be omitted. Milk chocolate, cacao nibs, vanilla, cinnamon, even a whisper of maple syrup. Sweet hazelnut? Quite a cocktail! Not that there was something unanticipated, rather vice versa, but still a good lineup of components.
The gustatory triumph follows the suit: powerful elements in big time. Bourbon is surprisingly manageable here. Barrel aged though. Chocolate ganache, cacao nibs, cinnamon, vanilla. At least. Faint toffee but not sure about the maple syrup. Probably not. Something syrupy anyway.
Enormous body. No doubt about it. As if, again, a problem with the tap or finishing keg or something. Huge in any case. Spoonable. Definitely. Seductive end, no change from upfront but, all in all, L-O-V-E-L-Y!!
Feels big. Just enormous. Damn thick and sticky. Gooey. Barrel aged, sappy, deep, rich, round, velvety, a tad layered. Still balanced. Astonishingly easily gulpable. Slow, of course.
These guys have magic in their hands what comes to big beers.