Dark Days - Rum Barrel
Iron Fist Brewing Company in Vista, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.63
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Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5
375 mL bottle poured, grabbed from the cellar. Not sure about age with no bottle date printed, but based on other reviews, I wouldn't be surprised if this was from 2016, plus or minus a year. Classic brewer from my early discovery days. Tasty stout that held up nicely, and I have to imagine the rum notes have only gotten stronger. They really explode out of this brew on both aroma and flavor. Dense black pour with a small head that's caught somewhere half way between light and flat. Toasty aroma, with lots of rum, oak, and cocoa. Warming taste, layered body. Dry and flavorful barrel notes really keep this interesting. Very unique. All the flavors of that distinct rum barrel without being too intense or boozy. In a 14%, that's a bit of a surprise. Overall a standout stout that I'll probably never get to ever try again. Although the old Stogies and Hops I think still has a bottle left, as I write this.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
KRS 110317. THX to Bergstaden. Black color wit a small tan head. Aroma is rum, wood, spices, sugar. Flavor is rum, wood, spices, coffee, chocolate, sugar, soy sauce, alcohol, raisin, roasted malt, oxidation. Full body. Very complex nice beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle, 12oz, shared by bergstaden. Dark brown in color, close to black, with almost no head. Oily pour. Wood, spices, dark sugar, soy sauce, raisins, molasses, leather, alcohol, lots of licorice and a pleasant oxidation in the aroma. It’s oily and full-bodied, warming and quite flat on the palate, with some oxidized notes in the flavor, along with soy sauce, licorice, molasses and dark dried fruits. Some brown sugar, alcohol and wood. Lasting warming and full-bodied finish with loads of soy sauce, licorice and booze. Quite wonderful, but I’d sure prefer it to be less alcoholic. Around 10% should be enough I guess. 170311
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle 375ml @ geokkjer
[Courtesy of bergstaden] Pours black with a small tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, ash, licorice, alcohol, dried fruits, leather, wood, soya sauce. Taste is medium to heavy sweet and medium bitter with a long warm, woody, ash, coffee, licorice, chocolate and coffee finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is flat
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5
Black with a brown head - Dark malt aroma with some fruity tones and some wood and vanilla in the flavour as well - Dark malt body that has a sweet ness from wood and vanilla with some boozy notes as well - The dark malt, dark frutiy notes, wood and sweet vanilla goes into the finish with some hints of booze that lasts - This was just real good
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle - pours black - tan head ring/almost no head - nose/taste of blackstrap molasses, rum, oak, dark roast chocolate and booze - full bodied.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
375 ml bottle from Imbibe Wine. Nose is chocolate, licorice, a little vanilla, and light rum with some prunes tossed in. Hope it doesn’t give me the runs. Black with a few cinnamon bubbles (was this brewed by LA for them? ). Flavor is sweet and boozy with heavy chocolate. Definitely not worth $14.75 for a 375 when a few weeks ago I paid $12 for GI BCS.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Capped 375 from Kings Liquor in Anaheim. Pours very dark brown with a dark tan smear. Aroma of chocolate, coffee, rum, alcohol, darkish malt. Wow. It’s a very power brew. Med + body. Flavor is rum, rum, rum. There’s some wood, and some alcohol functioning much like hop to cut the heavy treacle. No longer sure about coffee, but I think this has a touch of chocolate. The finish is rum, rum, rum. And some alcohol. The alcohol is simply another flavor component. It’s strong, but not at all objectionable. Really tasty ale. I like rum.