iStout
8 Wired Brewing in Warkworth, Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.90
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Beware, this is a BIG beer. Brimming with luscious roasted coffee and chocolate malt flavours which are balanced by a brisk bitterness and bold freshness from the hops. If you’re feeling politically incorrect try it with your favourite cigar, or a dram of your best single malt whisky. Or, if your tooth is sweeter, why not jump in at the deep end with the most decadent dessert of all; half a bottle in a glass with a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream on top (beer geeks like us know it as the Imperial Stout Float). Or simply enjoy it on its own as a decadent dessert or night cap - the perfect winter warmer! If you don’t already know the history of Russian Imperial Stouts please check it out on the internet, it’s a good story. But remember, although based on that century-old classic style, this beer is a very modern interpretation, like all our beers!
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
50 cl bottle (10,0%) @ olio. Batch #39, BBE 08/2014
Aroma is rather light and fuity with some vanilla and cocoa. Flavour is rather sweet with vanilla, some cocoa and salty licorice. Dry finish with coffee. Quite moderate and straightforward for this ABV and style – in good and bad sense.
Aroma is rather light and fuity with some vanilla and cocoa. Flavour is rather sweet with vanilla, some cocoa and salty licorice. Dry finish with coffee. Quite moderate and straightforward for this ABV and style – in good and bad sense.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 May 2012
at 09:05
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
50 cl. bottle split @ Delirium Hoppy Loft with sebletitje & ajax25g // black with a very small tanned head // smell is mocha, coffee, liquorish, touch light vinous, chocolate going closer to milk chocolate // taste is bitter, coffee, chocolate, very light sweet, roasted, coffee, bitter finish with light kiwi hops, light bitter white grapes, bitter roast finish, lightly nutty // medium bodied, ok carb. prefer my impy stouts a touch thicker // good stout but nowhere near the top // glad to tick New Zealand & apparently their highest rated one as well // I should try out the Imperial Stout Float one of these days
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 May 2012
at 15:37
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
50cl bottle @ Delirium Hoppy loft, shared with 77ships and ajax25g. Brune foncée/noire, col fin moka. Arôme est malté, choco épais et pointe de grillé/torréfié. Le tout en se réchauffant prend une ampleur allant vers le soja. En bouche, abv est bien là, chocolat est épais avec une amertume légère mais persistance, le tout garde ce côté épais allant vers la mélasse avec ce fini amer. Note de café, très orienté grains, sur la fin et tout comme l’arôme le palais prend une tournure soja qui pour moi est limite écœurante finissant visqueuse et épaisse en bouche.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 May 2012
at 15:24
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle. Opaque, black liquid with small tan head. Aroma of coffee, chocolate, licorice, oats, ash and biscuity caramel malt. Quite light. Taste is light sweet (quite dry) and medium bitter with nice coffee notes. Medium bodied with nice carbonation. Pleasant imperial stout but nothing too interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 May 2012
at 12:22
8.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Batch 39, BBE AUG/14. A black beer with a medium, dense and beautiful creamy, brown head. Aroma is great, stong chocolate and roastiness are nicely balanced, liquirice, some coffee and milky sourness. Taste is roasted, salt liquirice, some chocolate sweetness, herbal bitterness increase in the aftertaste and dries the mouth. Full bodied, smooth and very pleasant to drink. Very balanced IS with enough of nuancess, velvety smooth drinkability finished the pleasure.
Tried
on 18 May 2012
at 11:47
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Small very dark-greige hed over practically black-brown beer. Lots of dark chocolate, bitter & sweet, tad of coffee and a volatile whiff of ammonia-like smell; maltsyrup. Chocolate, very bitter; maltcookies, +/- sweet in the background, chocolate-covered. Tiny bit of ashes, green leaves as holly. Chocolate lingers on. Warming up, maltsweetness appearing in force.Very slighlty burning MF; full bodied and viscous-slick; well-carbonated. Nice, if not really spectacular stout.
Tried
on 11 May 2012
at 17:38
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
From a 500ml bottle on 26/3/2012 (ABV listed as 10%). Pours fairly close to black with a biggish tan head which disappears quickly. Has a huge roasty, chocolatey aroma, with some caramel and brown sugar. Bursting with flavour, dominated by dark chocolate and caramel with touches of coffee, soy, smoke and vanilla. Has a lovely sweet/bitter balance. A fantastic imperial from a consistently excellent brewer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Mar 2012
at 01:20
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 7
Bottle at the Trappist, shared with GT2 and the late Whitney Houston’s namesake. Black color, massive brown head with good retention, solid lacing. Aroma of coffee and chocolate. Taste is burnt coffee grounds and dark cocoa. Light body, surprising for a 10% beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Feb 2012
at 07:33