Cellar 3: Silva Stout
Green Flash Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.73
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On Tap at taphouse, Boise Big boozy stout with some ripe cherries and earthy roasted flavors. Classic vanilla and wood aged notes as well.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught @ CBC 2015. Pours viscous black with a small creamy dark mocha head that leaves some spotty trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is malty with roasted malts, burnt caramel, toffee, vanilla fudge, charred wood, dark roast coffee, milk chocolate, coconut milk, green chili and bourbon alcohol. Taste is sweet, bitter and malty. Mouthfeel is round, tiny viscous, slightly astringent, tiny boozy and medium to full bodied. Finish is sweet and bitter with roasted malts, burnt caramel, butterscotch, vanilla fudge, charred buttery wood, dark roast coffee, milk chocolate, green chili and bourbon alcohol. A good stout with less than optimal barrel treatment. Tons of green chili and buttery woody vanillin.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Draft pour at Toronado Seattle, San Diego tasting event. Pours black with a tan foam ring head. Huge aroma of rich graham cracker, chocolate malt, milk chocolate, coffee. Like a chocolate chip cookie. Delicious, but extremely rich. Sweet. Cinnamon. Bourbon hinted finish, with a lingering vanilla chocolate. One of a kind stout for sure, but one of those stouts where just a few ounces is just right. Would love to try again someday. Very fun beer.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
750 ml bottle. 2015 Cellar #3. Pours black with full tan head. Aromas of rich milk chocolate, vanilla, and roasted malts with a bit of alcohol. Flavors of dry dark chocolate, kahlua, stale black coffee, kirsch, light bourbon, and lots of alcohol.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. A- Butterscotch, subtle apple, vanilla. A- Black color, dark liquid, brown slightly fizzy head. T- Butterscotch, vanilla. P- Full body, average texture, average carbonation, soft finish. O- Pretty sure this one had some mild infection going on in it. Otherwise it was all butterscotch and vanilla.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sample at Tomahawk Warrior’s First Birthday party on 06/06/2015: Jet black pour with a medium tan head that recedes steadily to a film. Small patches of lacing on the glass. Aroma of chocolate, fruity oak and malt. Full-bodied with flavors of sweet chocolate and butterscotch, oaky vanilla, bourbon and fruit. The finish is sweet with a bourbon and malt aftertaste. Not sure if it is supposed to taste this way but it’s alright.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Keg at Beer Run, 5/2/15. Clear dark brown, thin creamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of chocolate, whiskey, vanilla, wood, caramel, raisin. The taste is chocolate, roasted malt, bourbon, vanilla, wood, booze. Thin bodied, boozy, hot, slightly ashy.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
750 ml bottle into snifter, bottled on 2/16/2015. Pours fairly pitch black color with a 2 finger dense dark tan head with good retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a good amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Aromas of milk chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, toffee, toast, vanilla, butterscotch, coconut, oak, bourbon, light dark fruit, and roast/oaky earthiness. Good aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roasted malt and bourbon barrel notes; with solid strength. Fairly strong diacetyl, but not overpowering overall to the aroma profile. Taste of big milk chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, toffee, toast, vanilla, butterscotch, coconut, oak, bourbon, light dark fruit, and roast/oaky earthiness. Light-moderate roast bitterness and oak/bourbon spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of milk chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, toffee, toast, vanilla, butterscotch, coconut, oak, bourbon, light dark fruit, and roast/oaky earthiness on the finish for a while. Nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roasted malt and bourbon barrel flavors; with a good roasted bitterness/sweetness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and medium-full bodied; with a smooth, moderately creamy, and slightly slick mouthfeel that is good. Alcohol is well hidden with only a small warmth lingering after the finish. Overall this is a good Barrel aged imperial stout, even with the off flavors present. All around good robustness, complexity, and balance of dark/roasted malt and bourbon barrel flavors; and smooth to sip on for the ABV. The diacetyl was definitely noticeable, but not overpowering to the overall balance of the beer. A nicely enjoyable offering.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
On tap at The American Craft Beer Fest Yesterday. Rich coffee and chocolate with a huge hit of diacytyl. This one isn’t right and shouldn’t be served.
Update 7/18/16 On tap at Village Tavern Geneseo, NY, yup this is infected. Some lacto or pedio more likely is giving this a cherry pie tartness oh and still lots of buttery goodness.