Parabolic (2025)
Irrational Brewing Company in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
6.28
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This is the first year that we have included an imperial stout in our birthday lineup! Having an awesome neighbour in Delavoye Chocolate we wanted to riff on a chocolate classic treat, the S’more. We opted for a fairly complex malt bill that uses some of the best Alberta has to offer with Red Shed Malting Chocolate Malt & Roasted Barley and supporting roles from Hogarth Malt Melany & Honey Malt. Then to make things interesting we hit this one with loads of Delavoye Chocolate: Single-Origin Ghana Cacao Nibs, Marshmallow, Vanilla, Graham Cracker, & Lactose to bring the sticky S’mores vibes.
Hops: Columbus
Yeast: English Ale
Malts: Pilsner, Flaked Oats, Chocolate Malt, Roasted Barley, Honey Malt, Melany Malt
Adjuncts: Marshmallow, Cacao Nibs, Vanilla, Graham Crackers, Lactose
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Oakes (33493) reviewed Parabolic (2025) from Irrational Brewing Company 2 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Medium brown, vanilla, caramel nose. Medium body, again vanilla, sort of fudgey. Not all that sweet…the richness just isn’t there.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5
On tap at Irrational, pours a deep dark brown with a small beige head. Aroma has some cinnamon, light cocoa, and toasted malt—very underwhelming malt base for an impie stout. Flavour is sweet, with cocoa, light cinnamon, s’mores, and plenty of sugar. Lacking malt body—drinks more like an imperial brown, but not convincing at all as a stout, let alone an imperial stout.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap at the brewery. Pours dark brown with a beige head. Burnt graham crackers and marshmallow; burn sugars on the nose. Flavour has some burnt sugars, burnt bread, some marshmallow sugars; thin body. Tastes more like a flavoured brown ale. Not great.