Last Rites Barrel Aged Triple Chocolate Imperial Stout
Ironfire Brewing Company in Temecula, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.80
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
This was supposed to be my 'nightcap', but the bar manager gave me three samples of the beers I hadn't tried (they have 12 available). Half-pint on tap in the breweries Old Town tasting room in Temecula on 29th December 2022. This is 'Lush'! So much chocolate and booze, loved it.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Light brown collar on a viscous dark brown head. Bourbon, coffee, iron & booze aroma. Full bodied, smooth, oily & greasy body. Bourbon, booze, rum, malt, syrup & jam tastes.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle, 650 ml shared with Miro B and Max. Black with beige head. Bourbon, chocolate, cocoa, some wood, warming, sweetish, nice bitter finish. Full bodied. Some alcohol.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
22oz bomber pours with a deep dark black body that supports a thin light tan head of foam. The aroma offers up boozy chocolate, dark roasted malts, some vanilla and then bourbon and more booze. The taste delivers smooth yet boozy notes of chocolate, spicy oak and thin dark roasted malts. Toward the finish the chocolate and booze surge forward again. Solid big sipper.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from the dregs run. Pours oily dark brown with a thin tan head. Boozy chocolate nose, light bourbon vanilla. Taste is more of the same. Booze heat overwhelms this a bit.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle at Craigs. Pours black, nose is coconut, toffee, vanilla, chocolate, wood, taste is similar, bitter, roasted .
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
bottle at home Christmas 2017 pt1 ... dark black ... thin tan lacing ... dark dry chocolate roast malts nose ... heavy rich chocolate roast ... massive malts .. .heavy meat bourbon chocolate roast .. dark heavy rich malt .. tiny coconut ... soft rich chocolate roast malts ..
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Bomber from Final Gravity in Roseville, CA. Pours very dark brown with a slight, transient dark tan head. Aroma of very strong bourbon which doesn’t totally obscure a great deal of chocolate. Full bodied. The sip is chocolate, bourbon, heat. Not a heat that’s destructive of the enjoyment. In my imagination this is like eating dark chocolate while drinking bourbon. The barrels must have been fresh. The malt is darkly treacle (tho very light on the molasses), smooth. This could make a great chocolate parfait with a good vanilla ice cream. It’s not at all sticky/sweet, and it’s reasonably earthy/bitter. Great stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
On tap at Real, Wild & Woody Beer Festival, pours black with a small brown head. Aroma is complex as hell, with loads of roasted malt, cocoa and bourbon. The 16% is scarily hidden. Complex and robust. Fantastic.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared by Matt. I admit I was not expecting much, but this surprised. Pours opaque black, small brown head, some lacing. Aroma is bourbon and rich chocolate, vanilla and roasted malts. Flavor is fully sweet, light plus bitter, heavy chocolate, vanilla, bourbon. Full body, creamy, somewhat hot, but not out of character for a 16% beer. A nice desert sipper and a great way to "cleanse" the palate on what was otherwise a night of sours.