Matryoshka - Barrel Select
Fort George Brewery in Astoria, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.39
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Matryoshka is perfectly, lovingly crafted to fulfill our most perfect stout dreams. Smaller and smaller variations emerge from the mother batch, conditioned on complementary ingredients, creating a family of variants.
Barrel Select 2025:
Aged in a careful selection of the best barrels in the cellar. Imperial stout from 12 month Westward Whiskey barrels, and 24 month Westland Whiskey barrels, hand chosen and expertly blended
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
500mL bottle, pours jet black with a small tan head. Aroma is complex, with lots of wood, oak barrels, and medium roast. Flavour is subtle and yet highly complex, with a wonderful whiskey barrel blend, light sherry, and loads of oak. Surprisingly light-bodied, yet ridiculously complex. Beauty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Dark brown. Thin head. The aroma has a lot of barrel, it's quite toasty. It's got a lighter body, with the barrels, the body is lighter, the whiskey a bit rougher, but the base is solid. But that toasty, nuttiness is quite good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Poured from 500mL bottle. Very dark brown with small beige head. Woody whiskey, feint roast and chocolate malt. A little bit rough around the edge, but okay.