Gegen Den Strom : Knupp
Against the Grain Brewery in Louisville, Kentucky, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Freigeist BierkulturTraditional Beer Regular
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Score
7.31
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A Traditional German Style Imperial Stout.
We’re stoked to introduce you to the latest in the Gegen den Strom series with Freigeist Brewery.
This traditional German style Imperial Stout has coffee and wood notes with just a bite of smoke.
It was aged in second-use American oak bourbon barrels and the malt was house-smoked in Alder wood. Drink with caution though or Dark just might reveal his ghost self in your old haunts.
(On Can). It was 1918 when Dark made his noble mark. His pride took him outside the city walls of Cologne to scout the dense forest. High in a tree he found the white flower pinned it upon his chest and proved himself a true soldier, but on his return, he came upon a bind of flowers so beautiful he died. Dark has returned, a ghost of his former self, to harvest the finest floral hops in all of Germany to adorn his barrels filled with traditional German stout just as imperial as himself.
We’re stoked to introduce you to the latest in the Gegen den Strom series with Freigeist Brewery.
This traditional German style Imperial Stout has coffee and wood notes with just a bite of smoke.
It was aged in second-use American oak bourbon barrels and the malt was house-smoked in Alder wood. Drink with caution though or Dark just might reveal his ghost self in your old haunts.
(On Can). It was 1918 when Dark made his noble mark. His pride took him outside the city walls of Cologne to scout the dense forest. High in a tree he found the white flower pinned it upon his chest and proved himself a true soldier, but on his return, he came upon a bind of flowers so beautiful he died. Dark has returned, a ghost of his former self, to harvest the finest floral hops in all of Germany to adorn his barrels filled with traditional German stout just as imperial as himself.
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6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Taster at Liquor Express. Pours black, with a small, tan head. The aroma is strong roast, burnt oak, walnuts, and black coffee. Dry and very bitter. Heavy body, with a sticky, astringent mouthfeel. This is a very strong, very roasted stout. Interesting, but not my thing.
Tried
on 29 Dec 2018
at 20:03
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
16 oz can poured into a tulip. Black with nice light tan head. Aromas of roast, dark chocolate, light dark fruit. Tastes of roasty notes, dark chocolate, oak. Full body with a dry finish. Nice.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Sep 2018
at 00:31
7/10
Tried
on 14 Sep 2018
at 15:21
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Keg at brewdog Edinburgh. Pours black, nose is blackcurrant, smoky, toffee, liquorice, taste is chewy, caramel, sweet, fruity, huge liquorice, quite sugary. --- Beer merged from original tick of Gegen den Strom - Knupp on 10 Oct 2018 at 08:25 - Score: 8
Tried
on 06 Sep 2018
at 19:51
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
keg at brewdog Edinburgh... dark black.. Dry chocolate roast malts.. heavy dry chocolate.. Big pine roast malts nose..... dark chocolate roast malts.. heavy chocolate roast malts.. big pine
Tried
on 05 Sep 2018
at 06:05
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Refrigerated 16 oz. aluminum can from shrubber85 poured into a glass. Black with big beige head. Aroma is dark chocolate, medium body, medium carbonation, and some lacing. Taste is anise, roasted malt, herbal hops, some dark chocolate, and dry finish.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jul 2018
at 00:09
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(Draught at BrewDog Shepherd's Bush, London, 27 May 2018) Black colour with creamy, beige head. Malty, roasted nose with coffee, dark chocolate and liquorice. Malty, roasted taste with notes of coffee, dark chocolate, roasted nuts, liquorice and a balanced coffee bitterness in a dry finish. Almost full body, quite dry. Tasty and well made stout. Very nice.
Tried
on 15 Jul 2018
at 19:18
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Can. Espresso, chocolate malt, oak, and dry hay aroma. Black with large brown head. Moderately sweet espresso, dark chocolate malt, and moderately bitter dry wood/hay flavor. Nice body and great balance. Excellent - a solid straight forward Impy Stout.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Jun 2018
at 23:14
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can, 473ml. Black, an inch of loosish beige head that fades but never disappears. Aroma of mildly smoky roast, chicory, vanilla. Barely medium bodied, carbonation is on the highish side of moderate for a stout of this strength. More definite in taste than suggested by the aroma with a firmly bready and roasted malt presence up front. A roasted presence. But not all that much sweetness or richness, with things soon giving way to "Continental" floral and spicy bitterness. Pretty nice but 8.8% sure seems a bit spendy.
Tried
from Can
on 26 May 2018
at 16:47
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tried at BrewDog, Liverpool, Almost black ruby colour with a thick tan head. Sweet malty aroma and taste, dried fruit, chocolate and coffee. Full rich body.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 May 2018
at 23:00