15th Anniversary
Drake’s Brewing Company in San Leandro, California, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Imperial Pils Special Out of Production|
Score
7.54
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A 15th anniversary recipe needs to be unique since so few breweries make it to their 15th year. For this recipe our head brewer Rodger Davis decided to throw out the style guidelines and create his own style. So he fused the finest ingredients, his relentless passion for good beer and topped it off with a bit of creativity. The beer is then aged in a bourbon barrel for 10 months creating a beer that is worthy of drinking for future anniversaries.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Huge thanks to hophead22 for the bottle (shared with billshmeinke). Pours with a hazy brown hue and a minimal off-white head. Great aromas centered around big brown sugar, melanoidins, barrel, rich, caramelization, light oxidation, maple and tannin. Flavors are of maple, brown sugar, rich caramel and caramelization, toffee, marzipan, and oak. Very smooth, vanillin, a touch of cardboard oxidation. Light bubbles and fuller bodied. Excellent still!
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Dec 2011
at 22:21
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared by Sean, thanks! Poured a hazy dark brown with opaque edges and no head whatsoever. Aroma had strong notes of caramel and toffee with grain and a strong alcohol kick. Flavor was sweet from caramel and grain notes with a boozy bourbon finish. Beer was surprisingly smooth on the tongue.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Nov 2010
at 09:47
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
thanks Dave for making this 700th rating an awesome one. Courtesy of ibrew2or3. Pours brown with beige head and still bubbly beige head. Aroma is loaded with bourbon, light creamy nose with caramel. Taste is malty and caramel with a butterscotch creamy warming mouthfeel that covers the palate. This is one beer that is hard to put down, the sheer aroma is just pure goodness. Words cannot do this beer justice.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jan 2009
at 04:37
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Rating number 2000. Picked up at Ledger’s in Berkeley at least a year and a half ago. Pours clear amber with copper edges and thin tan head. The aroma is simply huge and can be sensed feet away from the glass. It comes across as rather boozy followed by woody goodness, a touch of caramel, vanilla and a bit of alcohol heat to the snoot. The taste is very smooth and rich. Wow. I get sweet caramel, some solid wood notes and vanilla. The taste then moves on to include hints of dark fruitiness like prunes and plums. Plain old YUM!
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jan 2009
at 00:02
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle shared by Marcus. Thanks! A little of this goes a long ways. Dark plummy aroma. Brown hazy, sedimenty color with no head. Full bodied with very mild carbonation. Caramel, dark fruit in a light way, mildly warming. Finish is not sweet, but not really bitter. A very good sipper. Good competition for those high % Euro ales.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2008
at 21:17
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
A good lager. Sweet malt in the aroma and flavor. Some fruit, spiced heated apples and grapes. Brown color. I’m not so sure it is can be aged. Dark amber color.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Jul 2007
at 15:10
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
RBSG07. From 34 oz bottle. Pours muddy amberwith a light brown head. Aroma is malty/raisin sweet. Flavour is strong malty and raisins. Not overly sweet. Finish is sweet and strong.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jun 2007
at 16:57
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
RBSG 2007 Grand Tasting. Hazy dark amber body with a small white head. Sweet caramel and molassas aroma. Sweet molassas and light caramel flavor.
Tried
on 28 Jun 2007
at 15:57
6.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled. An unclear brown beer with a thin tan head. The aroma is sweet with notes of alcohol and malt as well as light notes of bourgon. The flavor is sweet malty with strong notes of caramel, as well as quite a lot of alcohol, that leaves a slight burn on the tongue, combined with light notes of bourbon, prunes, and wood.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jun 2007
at 17:26
8.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
(Bottle 18 cl) Courtesy of Degarth. Pours a cloudy, muddy light brown with a small, rough, off-white head dissipating in no time. Distinct, sweetish bourbon aroma. Very rich body, a bit flat with lots of sweetish caramel and then all the characteristic bourbon notes of oak and vanilla. This is almost like drinking a shot of bourbon - and I love bourbon! If all European strongs were like this it would be my favourite style... 280507
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2007
at 16:04