Big Ricc
Tallgrass Brewing Company in Wichita, Kansas, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.38
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Tasting notes: Bold coffee flavor and aroma with strong chocolate notes. Pours jet-black. Subtle dark fruit flavors. Dark roasted grains. Slight, “warming” alcohol presence. Full-bodied and great for sipping.
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superspak (10160) reviewed Big Ricc from Tallgrass Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
12 ounce can into snifter, canned on 9/21/2015. Pours opaque dark brown/black color with a small dense and rocky tan head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big dark chocolate, cocoa, dark roasted coffee, caramel, molasses, toffee, brown sugar, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, and dark bread/crust; with lighter notes of licorice, raisin, prune, fig, date, smoke, charcoal, leather, tobacco, herbal, wood, grass, peppercorn, pine, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/black/roast/bready malts, chocolate, coffee, and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of huge dark chocolate, cocoa, dark roasted coffee, caramel, molasses, toffee, brown sugar, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, and dark bread/crust; with lighter notes of licorice, raisin, prune, fig, date, smoke, charcoal, leather, tobacco, herbal, wood, grass, peppercorn, pine, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate pine, herbal, woody, grassy, peppery hops; and roast/charred bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of dark chocolate, cocoa, dark roasted coffee, caramel, molasses, toffee, brown sugar, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, dark bread/crust, licorice, dark fruit, smoke, charcoal, leather, tobacco, herbal, wood, grass, peppercorn, pine, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/black/roast/bready malts, chocolate, coffee, and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; with a fantastic roast/hop bitter/sweet balance; and no cloying, acrid, astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering hop/char bitterness. Medium carbonation and fairly full body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/bready/grainy, fairly sticky/chalky, and lightly slick mouthfeel that is fantastic. Mild increasing warmth of 10.5% after the finish. Overall this is a fantastic Russian imperial stout! All around fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/black/roast/bready malts, chocolate, coffee, and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the big ABV, with the mellowly bitter/charred/drying finish. Nicely soft feel, not overly bitter/charred. Fantastic balance between rich malts, chocolate, and fruity/nutty coffee complexity; with balancing earthy hops, and restrained fruity yeast. Not overly sweet/heavy from lingering hop/char bitter dryness. A highly enjoyable offering, and amazingly spot on style example. The coffee held up surprisingly well considering the age, may have been in a fridge the whole time.
Weihenweizen (7417) reviewed Big Ricc from Tallgrass Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Refrigerated 12 oz. aluminum can, canned on October 13, 2015 poured into a glass. Black with medium beige head. Aroma is dark chocolate, medium body, medium carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is dark chocolate, roasted malt, and coffee.
patrick767 (7172) reviewed Big Ricc from Tallgrass Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
can - Black pour, small tan head, aroma of dark roast malt, chocolate, and coffee. It has a tasty, rich flavor with lots of roasted coffee and a pleasantly bitter finish with roast character lingering. Full bodied. Very good.
Stuu (34178) reviewed Big Ricc from Tallgrass Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can at home. Pours black, nose is chocolate, caramel, vanilla, coffee, taste is bitter, dry, dark chocolate, coffee.
cagarvie (40235) reviewed Big Ricc from Tallgrass Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
can at home ... dark black .. small tan head ... soft dark chocolate roast ... dark chocolate roast heavy spicy chocolate roast malts .. big chocolate roast malts .. heavy chocolate light chilli tones... dark light burnt roast coffee .. chewy chocolate roast malts
wombat23 (6046) reviewed Big Ricc from Tallgrass Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Shared 12 oz. can. Pours almost black with a beige head. Aroma of strong roasted malt. Taste is dominated by roasted malt, with undertones of both chocolate and coffee. Good stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Tall grass Brewing Co. Big Ricc A 10.5% Russian Imperial Stout with Coffee & Chocolate added. I got this can from a buddy who picked it up in Korea but it was brewed in Manhattan... Kansas.
A deep soot black with nice thick crey tan head of foam. Rich umami savoury aroma with cocoa beans and light fruity coffee notes.
Medium Body, roasty dark chocolate with a meaty savouriness. More dark chocolate flavor than coffee while I was expecting the opposite. Tasty.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Big Ricc from Tallgrass Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Coffee- and chocolate-flavored stout, can shared by Ster at tderoeck’s place, big cheers for this as it happens to be my first Kansas beer and therefore a new ’state tick’... Pale yellowish beige, lacing, moussy head over a black beer with burgundy-hued edges. Strong aroma of milk chocolate and dark chocolate sauce, mocha ice cream, bitter cocoa, vanilla, cappuccino, fragrant coffee powder, pipe tobacco, whisky, burnt wood, dried fig, toasted coconut, butterscotch. Restrained ’dried’ fruit sweetness in the onset, hints of fig, raisin and dried banana, umami accent, softish carbo with a very thick, oily, creamy mouthfeel as is to be expected from an imperial stout. Deep malty middle, some sourish roasted barley turning mouth-filling bitter in the end, over a toffeeish and chocolatey malt sweet core; coffee presence is noticeable retronasally and adds extra aroma and flavour. Vanilla- and milk chocolate-like impressions in the finish too, but also a strong, heating, bourbon-like alcohol presence, eventually becoming a bit (too) wry on the root of the tongue. This beer being a tad too alcoholic even for its style is the only problem I have with it: otherwise this is a highly accomplished, rich and fragrant stout, in which the added coffee and chocolate are well-integrated into the whole rather than simply lying on top of it.
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Big Ricc from Tallgrass Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Tallgrass Big Ricc (by Tallgrass Brewing Company):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5
31/X/16 - 12Fl. Oz. can @ home - Ster's first Ghentian tasting, BB: n/a, canned: XI/21/15 (2016-1265) Thanks to Ster for sharing the can!
Clear dark brown to black beer, small creamy beige head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: lots of sweet malts, nice roast, some coffee, dark chocolate. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very roasted start, bitter, coffee, bit sourish, cocoa powder, hoppy touch. Aftertaste: alcohol, bitter, very roasted, charcoal and ashes, sour touch, more alcohol, very bitter hops.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Canned on 09/2415. Thanks Willie! Aged review.
This was poured into a snifter.
The appearance was a dark brown close to black color with a finger’s worth of white to off white foamy head. Messy lace.
The aroma starts with a big and bold robust dark and milk chocolate malt bill. Subtle sharp almost acidic coffee bean coming in underneath.
The flavor leans to the chocolate portions, nice and dry and sweet. Good level of roast. Acidity trying to poke out. Bitter roasty coffee sweet chocolatey aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a nice sipping quality about it. Carbonation seems to have dissipated altogether.
Overall, age has done this pretty well. Yes, the acidity of the coffee is starting to come out a little bit, but with the amount of chocolate malts that TG seemed to have put in, well, it helps and I think this is probably a real gem when fresh.