Café Del Bastardo
Nickel Brook Brewing Co. in Burlington, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.85
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Bourbon barrel aged imperial stout on coffee beans. Café del Bastardo is the culmination of our friendship with Tamp Coffee Co. and our love of Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout. An infusion of whole coffee beans into our Kentucky Bastard barrels brings a new member to the Bastard family. This intensely aromatic beer displays bright coffee, bourbon, vanilla and malty chocolate-coffee notes followed by warming alcohol. Enjoy fresh for the fullest expression of the coffee’s subtlety, or cellar and mellow for years to come.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Bottle at Wodan tasting. Opaque pitch black color, average sized beige head. Smell and taste malts, dark malts, soft roast, coffee oh yeah super nice. Coffee roast. Love it. Very pleasant.
Tried
on 10 Jul 2021
at 17:16
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Poured from 500mL bottle (2019 vintage). Pitch black with full tan head. Nice coffee and dark chocolate with mild bourbon. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jan 2021
at 03:01
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Big bottle - black wax, BeerRepublic 2020-08-08 Göteborg AR: rich cold coffee, AP: dark brown, wee beige head F: rich coffee, warming feeling, caramel, dry,
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Aug 2020
at 20:08
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Un intense café enrobé de Bourbon avec en complément du gâteau au chocolat nous introduit un olfactif puissamment alcoolisé. Les notes complémentaires sont de fudge, de vanille et de mélasse. Le liquide est noir et opaque, se couvre d’une petite mousse moka qui persiste très peu. Un chocolat caramélisé s’introduit en bouche et s’accompagne d’une chaleur intense de Bourbon pour nous donner une finale où le café déploie son intense amertume. Des esters de fruits noirs à saveur de pruneaux s’unissent aux notes de mélasse et aux accents légèrement épicés des houblons. Riche, complexe et liquoreuse, avec une amertume de café bien définie. C’est tout ce qu’on peut demander d’une stout impériale de qualité exceptionnelle.
Tried
on 11 Apr 2020
at 20:54
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dégustée le 2020-01-12. .
Tried
on 12 Jan 2020
at 19:57
6.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Black, fast fading brown head.Sweet, roasty boozy nose and palate… the heavy wood overshadows all else and ruins this for me
Tried
on 22 Aug 2019
at 00:37
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
I got this via a trade and apparently it was one of the top Canadian beers of 2018. Nickel Brook Cafe del Bastardo 14.5% BBA Imperial Stout on Coffee Beans Pitch black with a rusty fizzy head of foam that didn’t linger. The aroma is savory sweet coffee. Medium bodied with a somewhat velvety texture. The taste is toasty sweet coffee, some bourbon and oak. All in all a really smooth beer. Paired with a coffee crisp the sweetness was cut accentuating the booze and robust fruity coffee notes.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Aug 2019
at 04:17
9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle from the LCBO. 2019 vintage. Pitch black under a large frothy dark brown head that fades fairly quickly to a sheet and leaves tight lace. Nose is coffee, bourbon, oak, dark chocolate, vanilla, molasses, some berries and dark fruit. Flavour is Light+sweet molasses with a medium- coffee and dark chocolate bitterness and the slightest fruit tartness. Mouth is full and creamy with soft carbonation and and warming finish. Alcohol is evident but not over the top. Yesterday's tasting was Founder's KBS. The two compare favourably where this is more coffee forward and the KBS leans more towards the bourbon focus. 9/5-/9/4/18
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2019
at 23:46
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
500 ml bottle. 2019 vintage. Pours Black with short tan head. Aromas of acidic black coffee, oak, alcohol, dark sugar and sharp roasted malts. Flavors follow same with dark chocolate and a very strong licorice element. Very good but off balance. Nowhere close to the Kentucky Bastard IMHO. And way over priced... Minus a point.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2019
at 03:11
9.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
Bottle. A- Mocha, subtle booze. A- Black color, black liquid, brown head. T- Brownie batter, fudge, coffee, slightly sweet, mild bitterness, subtle oak. P- Full body, average texture, average carbonation, smooth finish. O- When I bought this I couldn't believe I was spending $20+ on a 16 oz bottle. Because of this price, I didn't pick up the other 2 variations. Little did I know it would be this good. I've never had a beer this big that was this smooth. At 12% and drinks like it's 4% yet doesn't taste thin at all. A balance of sweetness and richness. This is damn close to a perfect RIS. Could drink this all day long. Barrel aging adds flavor complexity rather than booziness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Feb 2019
at 18:36