Reserve Raspberry Russian Imperial Stout
Widmer Brothers Brewing in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.17
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An extremely rich and complex beer. The addition of raspberries during the fermentation process results in an almost purplish opaque color with a beautiful brown head. Warm chocolate and roasty notes compliment the hop bitterness.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pitch black colour with medium beige head.Aroma is smooth with flavour of raspberry and chocolate nice warming and well balanced good hint of chocolate and coffee too mild and creamy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jan 2026
at 10:12
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
90% opaque black pour, with a medium beige head. Big, boozy roast, with a solid amount of raspberry sweetness and jam. Mouthfeel is silky, carb is soft. Finish has a big raspberry kick, some raspberry jam flavour, some big coffee roastiness with some light chocolate. Pretty nice stuff.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:56
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
July 2014: 650 ml bottle with waxed top, vintage 2013, Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 9.3%. Black colour, large and lasting tan head. Aroma of ripe raspberries and moderately roasted malts, hints of chocolate, wood and coffee. Moderately sweet and fruity flavour with distinct notes of raspberries, chocolate, coffee, liquorice and bittering hops. Long, salty and medium bitter aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Cardinal
on 04 Jan 2025
at 03:51
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours black with a medium brown head. Aromas of toffee, dark fruits, malt, raspberries, sweet licorice, perfume, roast. Taste is bitter roasty, bitter, sweet raspberries in the back, sweet licorice, dry chocolate. Actually pretty decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2019
at 16:55
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
650ml bottle. Jet, black colour with small, very dense, creamy, moderately lasting and lacing, beige head. Chocolately dark malty and fruity aroma, sweet-ish notes of raspberry, hints of dark chocolate, milk chocolate, cocoa. Taste is slightly dry, minimally woody, slightly chocolately dark malty, slightly fruity, hints of raspberry, papery, almost medicamentous and mineral overtones. So-so.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jul 2019
at 20:31
6/10
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Mar 2019
at 09:40
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled 650ml. -from Spicy Days Zagreb. Black coloured, small to medium sized brownish head, light chocolate and alcohol in the nose. Roasted malt, chocolate, light raspberry and noticable alcohol with again raspberries in the finish. Nice one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Sep 2018
at 18:49
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
27.12.2017, 0,65l bottle (2013 vintage) @ home:
Nice fizzy-creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly dry sour-ish roasted, dark malts, raspberry licorice, grass, minerals, hay, bark, alcohol, caramel, sour-ish roasted coffee, fruit stones. Taste is slightly dry sour-ish mineraly, weeds, minerals, bark, alcohol, raspberry licorice, grass, fruit stones, paper, burnt sour coffee, medicine. Medium to longlasting bitterness, slightly dry and harsh mineraly mouthfeel. Fair enough.
Nice fizzy-creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly dry sour-ish roasted, dark malts, raspberry licorice, grass, minerals, hay, bark, alcohol, caramel, sour-ish roasted coffee, fruit stones. Taste is slightly dry sour-ish mineraly, weeds, minerals, bark, alcohol, raspberry licorice, grass, fruit stones, paper, burnt sour coffee, medicine. Medium to longlasting bitterness, slightly dry and harsh mineraly mouthfeel. Fair enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2017
at 13:33
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Good beer, not even close to great for an imperial stout. For the abv it's not complex enough. Portland ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried
on 05 Oct 2017
at 18:50
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Darkest brown, dark brown head. Brilliant chocolate mousse nose, lovely! Medium light mellow mouthfeel. Light oxidized roast and chocolate, light cardboard and wood, don't get much berry, chocolate milk finish, hint berry retronasal.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2017
at 14:56