St-Ambroise Stout Impériale Russe
Brasserie McAuslan (St. Ambroise) in Montréal, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦
Stout - Imperial Winter|
Score
7.92
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St-Ambroise Russian Imperial Stout is Quebec’s tribute to the late 1700’s English Imperial Stouts, brewed for the Russian courts of Catherine the Great.
Made from a blend of barley malts, St-Ambroise Russian Imperial Stout is infused with Cascade, Goldings and Willamette hops, resulting in an outstanding hop-character with a smooth finish. Bourbon wood-aged, this full-bodied ale has a rich, smoky aroma with hints of vanilla, expresso and chocolate.
Serve St-Ambroise Russian Imperial Stout between 13°C and 15°C, preferably in a port glass or a brandy snifter. This stout will improve with age for a number of years. Store in a cool, dark place.
Made from a blend of barley malts, St-Ambroise Russian Imperial Stout is infused with Cascade, Goldings and Willamette hops, resulting in an outstanding hop-character with a smooth finish. Bourbon wood-aged, this full-bodied ale has a rich, smoky aroma with hints of vanilla, expresso and chocolate.
Serve St-Ambroise Russian Imperial Stout between 13°C and 15°C, preferably in a port glass or a brandy snifter. This stout will improve with age for a number of years. Store in a cool, dark place.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Comes in a scotch-box cardboard thing, but the bottle itself is the same as any other you’d get. A shame, really, but then perhaps it has something to do with Quebec’s weird bottle deposit laws that would banish such things to endless frustration for consumers? I am not one to speculate; though I just did. But anyways, this pours jet black with a dark chocolate mousse head, the likes of which I don’t think I’ve seen before. Aroma is chocolate syrup, coffee, dirty motor oil. The flavour is deep and rich with chocolate and barley, burnt oak, coffee flavours, all that stouty goodness, and then a nice dry finish to boot. But after awhile it gets too bitter and too thick; it needs a little more balance, a little more drinkability. Right now it’s very good but just too difficult to down.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jan 2011
at 16:15
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12oz bottle pours an oily, opaque black with a thin, tan head. Nose is malty, nutty, woody, lightly boozy. Flavor is sweet, brown sugar, grapey, coffee, light bread. Some nice, mellow barrel in the flavor. Full bodied, sweet finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2010
at 15:46
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tampa Weekly Gathering @BT Wesley Chapel-I got in trade with Fred82-12oz bottle-pours tight brown head and black color. Aroma is bourbon/wood, medium/dark malt. Taste is bourbon/wood, rich medium/dark malt, some hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2010
at 18:20
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Courtesy of jcwattsrugger. Pours deep darkness with nice looking dark mocha head. The aroma is modest in strength with chocolate malt balls, dark to burnt malts, some chocolate, vanilla and faint spicy oak. The taste is rich with dark roasted malts, burnt malts that get to the point of being a touch ashy to midway followed by fudge brownie coming to the surface every now and then. There’s a smokiness surrounding the flavor too as well as some spicy black licorice. Very nice.
Tried
on 23 Dec 2010
at 18:33
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bouteille partagée avec Jcwattsrugger. Brune foncée, mousse est moka/chocolaté. Arôme est un merveilleux mélange de malt avec des notes d ’espresso, café, malt fumé donnant un cote de bacon, vanille et fine Au palais, la bière reprend un peu sur l’arôme. Le côté fumé est subtile et se mélange parfaitement avec l’espresso. On ressent un peu le bourbon et le rajout des copeaux de chêne donnent un fini légèrement épicé. En bouche, la bière est sèche, moyennement effervescente.
Tried
on 23 Dec 2010
at 09:04
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Maroon color, nice brown head, scant lacing. Nice coffee and chocolate malt aroma. Taste is bitter coffee grounds, bitter finish. OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2010
at 13:24
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
341mL bottle sent from Dany / Glouglouburp (Thanks!). Pours deep black with a dark brown / coffee-like head - beautiful. Rich aroma of bourbon upfront, with secondary hints of smoke, wood, and a little alcohol. Flavour is certainly unique - rich wood-like roasted malt, bourbon and smoke, with burnt espresso on the finish - not a hint of sweetness to be found. Delectable - glad I was able to try this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Nov 2010
at 19:47
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Velvety black, with a rusty shine, and a dark-beige , fine & thick head, slightly irregular. Pours viscously, emitting a very rich chocolate/chocolate wafer nose with moccha, burnt notes and roasted Brasil nuts. After some time, the aromas converge to a rich mix of roast, rum & finally, but unmistakably, Bourbon. Impressive. Bitterish-sweet with a little, ever-burning edge; roasted, overdone toffee, moccha, roasted crusts, very long-lasting and very gradually fading. Bourbon again very present, the more as it warms up. Bitter & sweet come together better by then. Rich, velvety, viscous & burning MF, alcoholwarming. Good IRS, Bourbon infused, but just this makes it a tad to the sweet side. Grand merci à Fred & co!
Tried
on 02 Aug 2010
at 10:59
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle courtesy of Mes, Sim and Justin shared at Merton Summer Beer Festival 17-07-10 Pours shark eye black with a tan head. The aroma is burnt woody, coffee and with a generous amount of chocolate there also. Taste is more of the same but in the mouth this is quite substantial its oily and thick, chewy and bitter. Great stuff but difficult to rate fairly as had to keep taking snatches of this between serving people. A8 A4 T8 P4 Ov16 4.0
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jul 2010
at 06:20
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bouteille 341ml. De couleur brune foncée/ noire et opaque. Nez de malt rôti aux notes brûlées, de chocolat noir, moyen de vanille et de café, léger de houblon herbeux avec des notes boisées (fût de chêne), de mélasse, de fumée de bois et de fruits (prunes). Ronde-moyenne en bouche avec un pétillement bas et une texture riche et légèrement crémeuse. Goût de crême brûlée (faibles notes lactiques) accompagné d’un léger goût de vanille avec des notes de malt fumé (fumée de bois) et des traces de fruits (prunes, traces de dates) lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute rapidement un goût de malt assez rôti avec un goût de chocolat noir, un léger goût de mélasse avec des notes de caramel toffee et de pain grillé. Parallèlement, l’on retrouve un léger goût d’alcool réchauffant jusqu’en finale. Un goût de café s’installe progressivement jusqu’en finale avec une moyenne amertume de houblon herbeux et des notes boisées (fût de chêne). Post-goût long, moyennement amer de rôti, moyen de houblon herbeux et de chocolat noir, léger de café avec des notes d’alcool et des traces boisées.
Tried
on 22 Jun 2010
at 20:04