Island Reserve Russian Imperial Stout
Cisco Brewers in Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.17
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Roast malt and rich dark chocolate. Well done with a good balance and good bite. Well disguised alcohol. Black pour with good head and lacing. Light caramel and a light bittersweet finish. Creamy and thick. I like this one. Tap at Max’s.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Sampled from a bottle. Black, and low carbonation. Dry roast with some chocolate and dry. Thick and heavy on the palate. ok.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Jaspers, thanks for the Gift Certificate Mike. Pours a solid black with a huge creamy tan head that persists forever and sticks to everything. Huge hoppy nose of pine resin and citrus with a solid roasty smokey sweet malty base. Mild papery oxidation on the nose as well. Sweet sugary malt flavor with bits of roast and dark chocolate. Plum and anise midway through before a sweet molasses and chocolate with a twinge of alcohol finishes us off. Medium to thick body with a light level of carbonation and a sweet creamy silky mouthfeel. Nice imperial stout.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pours black into a snifter. Mocha head with medium retention recedes leaving spot lacing to coat surface. Caramel and citrus aromas. Medium bodies with sour pit fruit and dark chocolate covered caramel upfront turning sour in the dry, lasting espresso finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
750 bottle @Paul’s Blind Stout tasting-disappearing tan-black. A-alcohol, chocolate/molasses-dk malt, peat. T-alcohol, chocolate/molasses-dk malt, peat, some pepper.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at Paul’s tasting. Pours black with tan head. Nose and taste of black licorice, roasted chocolate malt, coffee roast and cocoa. Some vanilla. Medium body.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draft in a tulip @ The Ale House. The way a stout should look. Pitch black with frothy tan head. Retention until the end. Nice. Nose is big rich roasted malt, dark fruit and chocolate. Sweet upfront with great roasted malt base turning to a bitter chocolate in the finish. Dark fruit nuances. (figs) ABV does so up but not detracting at all. Could NOT guess this was over 13%!! Mildly bitter and dry texture. As the stout warms a mild warming sensation from the booze. Makes it a nice sipper. Pretty good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Capped 750 from Half Time. Pours very, very dark brown with a slight dark tan head. Aroma is chocolate and darker fruits with a suggestion of cinnamon. Full bodied. It’s fairly bitter from the burnt malt. There’s chocolate and dark fruit, and a little plummy sweetness trickles in around the edges. And I still think of Mexican chocolate - whereforth I think cinnamon. Might be imagination. It’s very tasty, and qualifies as fairly dry and bitter, despite some persevering fruit sweetness. Very tasty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Black color, thick brown head, nice lacing. Aroma of of subtley spiced chocolate. Taste is smooth and rich spiced espresso and cocoa. Nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle @ Laser Wolf. Very dark brown w a very thin head. Fairly robust aroma with dark fruit notes and some mellow dark sugars. Smells like a little bit of a subpar impy. Strong harsh impy stuff, with burnt and a tiny bit of fruit. All told a bit strong and harsh as impys go.