Red Tape Stout
Indie Alehouse Brewing Co. in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.32
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Travlr (30173) reviewed Red Tape Stout from Indie Alehouse Brewing Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Sampled during St Crispin's Day Feast, paired with a Hunter's Platter of wild boar tenderloin, spent grain duck & venison sausages, stilton, brussel & kohlrabi gratin, branston-barley wine jus, broken duck egg. Dark brown color brown head. Aroma of fruity coffee. Taste is dark roast coffee, subtle vanilla, dark fruit. Tasty and paired very well.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Sampled on draft at the brewpub this beer poured a black color with a medium sized foamy tan head that left minimal lacing. The aroma was chocolate cake, vanilla and bourbon. The flavor was bourbon, port wine, vanilla, rich malts, cherry and chocolate cake. Very long finish. A bit boozy. Moderately full bodied. Excellent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
(Draught at the brewpub, Aug 31 2013) Pours an inky black with a barely-there head of whitish bubbles around the rim. Aroma is really vinous, a little woody vanilla, light herbal/spicy character, quite Pinot really, but mixed with a little dusty dry malt character as well. The palate was a bit more balanced between wine and stout - some grape/red fruit character of the wine, a touch sweet-tart at first, slightly woody with a cocoa powder/coffee character and light restrained roast, finishes with some lingering wine notes and tannic/astringent quality along with a bit of roast dryness. Body only moderate but silky, with very light carbonation, very slight booze for the abv. Elegant, balanced, wine-like, with a very restrained character for an impy stout as a base beer. Pity it’s not winter, this would be great fireside sipper.
Lubiere (24459) reviewed Red Tape Stout from Indie Alehouse Brewing Co. 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
A deep dark stout with a thin dark brown head. In aroma, nice chocolate with grassy notes, coffee grinds, light mocha. In mouth, chocolate malt with heavy coffee influence, sweet mocha and light alcohol, well made.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Very strong aroma of wine from the barrels. It pretty much dominates the beer. Some hops and booze in aroma, but they tend to come out later on in the palate, which has medium complexity. This beer doesnt taste like the percentage it hypes - hides booze well. Pours black with good lacing as most from brewer. On tap at alehouse.