Certified Evil 2015
Lucky Bucket Brewing Company in La Vista, Nebraska, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.25
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
pitch black color. Light brown head. Lots of licorice, treadles, dark fruit and dark chocolate. Full body, dry, tons of licorice, salty, dark fruit. Smooth alcohol well hidden. Fantastically integrated.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Lucky Bucket Certified Evil 2015 9.1% Man this is flying under the radar, I’ve seen it on Rakuten for about 650 yen and wondered at the higher price (most Lucky Bucket beers retail around 500 yen). Finally got one and wow this is brewed with brown sugar, raisin juice, molasses, cardamom and orange peel THEN aged in wine casks! This makes it probably one of the best value BA beers in Japan. Plus I gotta love the Swirl Sip Scheme motto on the label. Pouring a deep inky black with a creamy rusty tan colored head of foam. The aroma is nice: cardamom, orange peel, raisins, cinnamon - I can’t wait to get the full impact once it warms up. Medium to full bodied with a velvety mouthfeel and mildly raspy carbonation. The taste is really nice, some warmth in the pit of your stomach but very well integrated flavors of molasses, cardamom, dark chocolate, burnt sugar. It drinks dangerously easy and has me scheming... ...about getting my next bottle.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draft. A- Cocoa, subtle bourbon, light. A- Dark brown color, dark liquid, tan head. T- Coffee, roasty, cocoa, subtle booze. P- Full body, average texture, average carbonation, rich finish. O- Glad they went back to a variation of the Imperial Porter this year. It was a little lacking and didn’t have a ton of depth but it was still a good beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draft at the source courtesy of HuskerTan and jbuskirk as a warm up to the Great Nebraska Beer Festival, thank you gentlemen!Dark maroon brown, beige head. Aroma of burnt licorice, coffee grounds. Taste is big roasty vanilla and coffee. Very tasty. My 100th Nebraska rating.