XV Russian Imperial Stout
Tuatara Brewing Company in Paraparaumu, Wellington, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Stout - Imperial Special|
Score
7.76
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We like to think that 15 years is a good enough reason to make a wee bit of a song and dance - or at the very least a really monumental beer for the cellar-bratory ages!
So in 2015, our quindecennial year as a brewery, we created a limited edition Russian Imperial Stout, XV. It has been cellared (upright, of course - we do things a wee bit differently from our vinetarian cousins) over the past year and, just like this brewery, XV has improved with age!
As if we needed further proof of its royal pedigree, XV won a silver medal in the Porter & Stout category at The Brewers Guild of NZ Awards in September 2015. Since then, XV has been sitting in the cellar honing those award-inducing rich, chocolatey, malty flavours. The result? Spectacular.
Za zda-ró-vye!
Style: Russian Imperial Stout
Taste: Strong chocolate with hints of dried fruit and brioche. Smooth on the palate with chocolate aroma.
Hops: Simcoe, Amarillo.
Malt: Pale, Crystal, Chocolate and Roast Barley malts.
So in 2015, our quindecennial year as a brewery, we created a limited edition Russian Imperial Stout, XV. It has been cellared (upright, of course - we do things a wee bit differently from our vinetarian cousins) over the past year and, just like this brewery, XV has improved with age!
As if we needed further proof of its royal pedigree, XV won a silver medal in the Porter & Stout category at The Brewers Guild of NZ Awards in September 2015. Since then, XV has been sitting in the cellar honing those award-inducing rich, chocolatey, malty flavours. The result? Spectacular.
Za zda-ró-vye!
Style: Russian Imperial Stout
Taste: Strong chocolate with hints of dried fruit and brioche. Smooth on the palate with chocolate aroma.
Hops: Simcoe, Amarillo.
Malt: Pale, Crystal, Chocolate and Roast Barley malts.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottled (from Alko). Black colour, mediumsized beigeish brown head, which leaves some lace. Aroma is coffee, roasted notes, ashes, mild chocolate with some rye bread and alcohol to it. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, some alcohol sweetness with mild dried fruits and some bitter grassy and floral elements too.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2023
at 19:17
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle, 330 ml, courtesy of and shared with Cajt guys. Black with tan head. malty, roasted, chocolate, sweet, cocoa, sweet, dry bitter finish. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Apr 2020
at 19:51
9.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9.5
Dunkler, alkoholisch schokoladiger Start. Intensiv malzig röstig, konstante milde Herbe, vollmundig. Hohe Viskosität, steigend malzig, intensiv, weich. Bitterschokolade, der Alkohol ist gut eingebunden. Kaum süß, holzig, trockener Hintergrund, langer Nachhall. 14/13/13/14/11/14
Tried
from Bottle
at
Craftbeer Corner Coeln
on 22 Mar 2020
at 20:56
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
500ml bottle. Jet black colour with slightly late awakening, average to huge, thick, creamy, mostly lasting, moderately lacing, brown head. Roasty, roasty-spicy, slightly chocolately, minimally smoky, dark malty and grassy, citrusy hoppy aroma, something like Double Black IPA impressions at first sniff, notes of black chocolate, couverture, coffee, orange-flavoured dark chocolate, green onion, a touch of liquorice and peat. Taste is sweet-ish, chocolately and bitter, roasty dark malty, minimally smoky, ashy, and slightly citrusy hoppy, notes of dark chocolate, some coffee, orange flavoured chocolate, subtle layers of caramel and toffee, white coffee, a touch of liquorice. Rather thin, oily texture, smooth and soft palate, very fine carbonation. Highly hopped, well balanced and integrated at the same time - more than satisfactory on the occasion of a 15th anniversary.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2019
at 21:50
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Black colour, fantastic thick beige head. Aroma is lots of coffee, also cocoa. Full body, feel too heavy. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2017
at 11:14
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled 14.8.2015. Black beer with huge, mid brown cloudy and stable head. Aroma is strong. It has licorice, milk coffee, chocolate, dried fruits and hints of alcohol. Taste has licorice, malts, dry and bitter coffee. Full body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Dec 2017
at 16:07
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
500ml bottle from Alko. 2015 vintage. Pours pitch black with a thick brown head. Aroma of roasty malts, earthiness, licorice, coffee, chocolate and syrup. Taste is roasty and chocolatey with some hints of hops, coffee, loads of licorice. Finish is roasty and hoppy with some lingering bitterness, chocolate, coffee, licorice and cocoa. Nice, hoppy and roasty imperial stout. --- Beer merged from original tick of XV Russian Imperial Stout @dylanadmin1 on 18 Nov 2017 at 00:22 - Score: 8
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Nov 2017
at 16:21
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled 500ml (Alko web)
Opaque colour, good steady brownish head and lace. Aroma has coffee, rye bread and toasted, almost burned notes. Full-bodied. Roasted, a bit burned malty with dark coffee and chocolate. Alcohol picks up in the aftertaste. Quite heavy, roasted impy for cold winter evenings. A bit too burned to be world class for my liking.
Opaque colour, good steady brownish head and lace. Aroma has coffee, rye bread and toasted, almost burned notes. Full-bodied. Roasted, a bit burned malty with dark coffee and chocolate. Alcohol picks up in the aftertaste. Quite heavy, roasted impy for cold winter evenings. A bit too burned to be world class for my liking.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Oct 2017
at 12:47
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
A black beer, a head is quite big and beautiful, dense, creamy and brown. Aroma has smooth salt liquorice, dark and dried fruits, some chocolate and strenght of alcohol. Powerful. Taste has salt liquorice, sweetness of malts, dry roastiness and coffee, also bitterness, hint of dried fruitness. Full bodied, not stickyness, creamy and smooth. Great salt liquorice, smooth and enjoyable, strenght and so easily to enjoy.
Tried
on 03 Sep 2017
at 05:36
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(Bottle, 0.5 l - bottled on 14 August 2015, at One Pint Pub, 20170715) The beer poured black. Its head was medium sized and lightly brown. Aroma had liquorice, dark chocolate, burnt malts and sweetness. Palate was full bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were burnt malts, liquorice, dark chocolate, sweetness, ash and bitterness. Aftertaste was burnt and bitter. A tasty balanced imperial stout that hid its rather high ABV very well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jul 2017
at 12:46