Imperial Eclipse Stout - Elijah Craig 12 Year Barrel
FiftyFifty Brewing Company in Truckee, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating|
Score
8.16
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Vintages:
2009 - Purple Wax
2011 - Purple Wax
2012 - Purple Wax
2013 - Purple Wax
2014 - Purple Wax
2015 - Purple Wax
2016 - Purple Wax
2017 - Purple Wax
2023 - Purple Wax
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Taster showing dark brown and sparse latte colored foam.
The nose shows moderately intense notes of raisins and light latte.
The palate shows well carbonated and medium bodied. Lightly sweet with moderate notes of raisins and figs with an espresso finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Roast, caramel, some dark chocolate. Pours black with good head and lacing. Bittersweet finish. Black pour with decent head. Bottle shared at tasting.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottled. Deep brown colour with a mediumsize beige head. Aroma is alcohol, some wood, vanilla, roast and dried fruits. Flavour is bourbon, vanilla, chocolaty, some mild peated tones with some alcohol, dried fruits and figs to it as well. Surprisingly easy to drink, even though this is a rather big boy.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
2015 bomber poured, shared by Tcon. Thanks! Dark and dense jet black appearance. Quick fading head. Layered aroma of oak, bourbon, vanilla, and honey. Flavor is equally as complex with all the same notes and more. Shared with some soft milk chocolate, and bran like malts. Smooth taste, very easy drinking imperial. Very happy with how this one has clearly matured. Excellent BA stout.
0,65 litre Bottle, courtesy of Bergstaden. Almost Black with beige head. Roasted malts, barrell, mild, Smooth. Boozy.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
(Bottle) Black colour with creamy, beige head. Malty, roasted nose with sweet espresso, cacao, dark chocolate, liquorice, treacle, black bread, vanilla, bourbon and wood. Malty, roasted taste with notes of sweet espresso, sweet liquorice, bourbon, vanilla, treacle, dark chocolate, oak wood and a balanced coffee bitterness in the finish. Full body, quite sweet. Strong and fairly sweet stout with a generous bourbon character (my favourite bourbon as well). Great stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at tasting. 2/2015 says label. Forgot to note the color of the wax, says 11,9%. Poured pitch black with a thin brown head. Honey sweetness, honeycomb , roastedness and some cocoa. Smooth full bodied, good stuff. Balanced, heavy but still manages to be drinkable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle from Systembolaget. Shared with the Dangerous Bottleshares crew. Pours a pitch black with a brown small head. Aroma is bourbon, vanilla, dark fruits, dark sweet chocolate, malt, licorice. Taste has bourbon, booze, vanilla, sweet licorice, roast, dark fruits, dark chocolate.
RB backlog, CBF Vienna 11/18. Roasty, marzipan, nutty, raisins, figs. High sweetness, toasty and with sourish notes, nice. Full, strong body with pearly carbonation.