Bumaye Imperial Stout (2013)
8 Wired Brewing in Warkworth, Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.62
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To make Bumaye 8 Wired started out with the baddest imperial stout they have ever brewed, and then added loads of tasty sugars to the fermenter for extra flavour. To smooth out the roughness, the beer was allowed to mellow in Pinot Noir barrels for 3 and a half years. The result is decadent but at the same time beautifully balanced. Let’s rumble!
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8/10
Tried
on 01 Jul 2015
at 04:50
8.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Dark brown, pretty much no head. Aroma has some barrel, oak, spicy alcohol. Whisky soaked cherries. Taste is sourish, bitter chocolate flavours. Nice. Ending with a somewhat surprising green apple note. You can feel the alcohol but would be difficult to guess that it really holds that much of it.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Apr 2015
at 08:54
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Pitch black color. No head. Slightly sour, caramel, dark chocolate, dried peaches. The mouth has very little carbonation with lots of chocolate malts, sour, leather, very rounded. Lingering sour dark chocolate finish.
Tried
on 17 Apr 2015
at 09:36
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
330 ml bottle. Pours black with very light tan head that dissipates quickly. Aromas of licorice and wet roasted malts with sour vinous notes. Flavors of burnt caramel, licorice, roasted malts, and cashews, again with some slick/sour vinous notes. Definite alcohol heat. A beer liqueur. Tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Apr 2015
at 18:03
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours black with a grayish brown head that dissipates to the edges quickly. Aroma has rich sweet dark fruits and sweet dark grains with a bit of roasted malts and backing notes of red wine and a hint of coffee. Flavor begins with sweet dark grains and dark fruits with a strong growing red wine note with a bit of roasted malts and a coffee bite in the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Feb 2015
at 18:24
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
33cl bottle. pitch dark, smooth small brown head. aroma is wood, hard roasted malts, faint boozy note too. strong.. but a little bit one dimensional the abv considering. Flavor is incredibly rich, insane roasted malty intense note, as well as loads of wood, and then finer notes proably from the wood too. salty licorice notes. very tasty for a 16%abv imp stout, not as sweet as feared, the bitterness is stunning, almost peppery. tastes more like some badass 40% liqeur than a mere 16% black beer. lots of power.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jan 2015
at 16:16
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 6
Poured from a bottle it is a dark brown color. The aroma is of whiskey and the taste is strong whiskey with notes of cherry and licorice tgat remains on the palate
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2014
at 20:59
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
From a 33 cl bottle shared at home. Pours black with a thin tan head. Aroma of dark fruits. Flavors plum, cherry, licorice and chocolate with vinouis notes. Intense and complex.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2014
at 17:14
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Vinous chocolate malt and hay aroma. Black with small head. Dry earthy red wine dominates flavor - very light chocolate malt and hay flavors in the background. Nice but wine flavor overwhelms everything else.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Oct 2014
at 16:21
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
0.33l bottle brought home from 2d2dspuma. Looks a bit like pouring oily here. It's really thick and dark, not even a hint of a head on this and the beer itself is really deep dark ruby brown in color. Lovely lovely nose! It's really rum infused. Wood, vanilla, salty rope with soy sauce, coconut and dark dark bitter chocolate. Mmmhh.. What a lovely aroma indeed! This is one of those flavor bombs! Oh, my.. It's almost a little like liquefied deep dark chocolate that has been added whisky, wood, port wine, burnt sugar and charcoal. It has a really good thick chewy mouthfeel and it's only softly softly prickling on the carbonation bubbles. Not to far off flat really. Having problems describing all the different flavors here, there are so many and it's so concentrated! In the finish it's tailing off lots of salty licorice, tannin's and charred wood. A true sipper in every way! 14.09.2014
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2014
at 11:36