Bring Out the Imp !!
Spey Valley Brewery in Mulben, Moray, Scotland 🏴
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
6.60
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A 7.5% Imperial Stout , brewed with finest malts & oatmeal. Fermented with Belgian yeast.
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5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5.5
Texture 5
Overall 5.5
330mL bottle, pours a deep dark brown with a small white head. Aroma has a very pronounced English bready malt character upfront, some earthiness, and light oats. Flavour is almost more like a Scottish ale in malt character, sweet esters, light oats, and toasted bread. Very thin-bodied, too estery, and just not convincing as a stout. Okay.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Sherbrooke Liquor Store
on 13 Sep 2025
at 16:00
5.3/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 5
It's brown. Like amber-brown, and bright. Wrong colour for an imperial stout. Estery yeast profile, maybe some phenols on there. So not enticing but whatever. The palate, however, is a bit of a miss. That is to say there's a thin body, more issues with the phenols, just comes across weak and I really don't know what direction it's going other than throwing in some random bubble gum.
Tried
on 13 Sep 2025
at 05:11
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 5
Overall 6
330mL bottle. Pours dark brown with a white head. Gentle brown sugars and bready malts on the nose. Flavour has thin brown bread malts and a weird sweet estery character. This isn't really coming together for me.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Sherbrooke Liquor Store
on 12 Sep 2025
at 13:29
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6
330 ml bottle. Pours a dark brown with a little fizz that disappears quickly. Aromas of cola and woody roasted malts. Flavors follow same with additional sugar. Thin.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2025
at 22:50