Divine Reserve #15
Saint Arnold Brewing Company in Houston, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.68
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This Divine Reserve was inspired by the winning entry of the 2007 Big Batch Brew Bash homebrew competition, brewed by Mike Heniff, a highly decorated local Houston homebrewer. Russian Imperial Stouts are very big and very black and this one is no exception.
It was first brewed as DR5. DR15 has a rich malty body full of coffee and chocolate flavors and a spiciness derived from the combination hops and high alcohol. It was brewed with a variety of malts including 2 row pale, crystal, chocolate and roasted barley. It was hopped with Nugget, Willamette and Centennial. We used our Saint Arnold yeast to ferment it. It is unfiltered.
Enjoy at 45°F or warmer with some dark chocolate or a bowl of vanilla ice cream.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
NYE bottle share. Brown/black pour, adequate beige head, kind of fluffy. Roast malts and chocolaty aroma. Taste follows on with some nice cocoa/chocolate flavors, a hint of smoke. Nice texture, creamy. Not overly boozy, but warming.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle - Vintage 2015 - Sweet dark fudgy notes with cocoa. Deep brown with a small beige head. Dark malts, cocoa and a touch of soy umami.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Poured from a 12oz bottle. Aroma is full of chocolate and roast with a medium strong oak note. Some dark fruit notes with raisin and prunes. Hints of alcohol. Pours black with some dark brown hues and a medium small, moderately thin, dark tan head the recedes immediately to the edges where it lingers slightly. No lacing and moderately long legs. Flavor is slightly sweet with some light chocolate notes and moderate roast. Some moderate raisin and prune notes with some lighter cherry and plum. Quite a bit of oak with moderate bitterness and a light alcohol spice. Mouthfeel is full bodied and somewhat silky with medium low to low carbonation. Moderate astringency and medium low alcohol warmth. Overall, an alright beer but the oak and tannins don’t work well with the dark fruit notes and adds quite a bit of astringency and bitterness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle thanks to Cloaker. Pours opaque black, small quickly diminishing dark brown head, some lacing. Aroma is light with notes of coffee, chocolate and coke. Flavor is quite sweet, light plus bitter, tobacco, coca-cola, leather, chocolate. Medium plus body, lingering bitterness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
12 ounce bottle shared at the 10th Annual Epic & Unusual Beer Tasting, 11/29/15. Dark brown, thin fizzy tan head, good retention. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, leather, vanilla. The taste is roasted malts, chocolate, tobacco, vanilla, mild smoke. Medium bodied.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Thanks for sharing Podjebier! 355 ml. bottle sampled during Carnivale Brettanomyces #4. Black, little mocha. Nose is umami, vanilla, sugar, creamy mocha, a touch too umami,… Taste is vanilla, mocha, mixed with some roast, booze, sugar, a bit thin, sweetish & umami-like with some candy, oily & a bit light. Lightly creamy body. Good but not top.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle shared by Podjebier, small sample. Dark color, short head. Aroma of roasted malts, coffee, dark chocolate. Soft bitterness, chocolate. Decent stuff.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared. Pours dark brown with pretty much no head. Aroma of sweet malt, toffee, caramel and chocolate. Flavour is heavy sweet. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. Nice enough by very one dimensional.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
(Thanks Dain "DrunkSanta410") Bottle. A- Bitter cocoa, subtle dark fruits, subtle licorice, roasty, subtle smoke, raisins, alcohol. A- Black color, black liquid, brown head. T- Bitter cocoa, licorice, very roasty, dry, malty, faint alcohol. P- Full body, average texture, average carbonation, dry finish. O- Not near as good as I hoped it to be. Very dry, very roasty, and mostly bitter bakers chocolate tasting. Pretty fresh so that probably played a role. A sipper for sure.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Refrigerated 12 oz. brown bottle poured into a snifter. Black with very small light brown head. Aroma is roasty, thick body, low carbonation, and very little lacing. Taste is roasty malt, coffee, some herbal hops, some dark chocolate, and light herbal hop finish. Too heavy for me.