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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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours thick with a black body and a tan head. Good retention and lace. Aroma are show a surprisingly big herbal character. Chocolate, cocoa, light hints of dark fruits, medium esters, lots of dark chocolate, raisins, pine, and fudge. No phenols, diacetyl or otherwise. Earthy, biscuity and some pie crusts with the malt profile. Very thick on the palate. Flavors of earth, peppery, a hint astringent from the dark roast. Bitter, chocolate. Bitter balance overall. Malty, woody, coffee, woodsie notes. Some tobacco. Could use a touch more malt sweetness for my palate. Creamy, full bodied, thick and velvety. Medium to light carbonation. Quite warming. Tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2011
at 11:15
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Medium dark brown head. Opaque black body. Roasty coffeeish aroma with wooden laquer and burnt notes. Dry-sweet roasty resiny burnt taste with honey, alcohol, and lacquer notes. Fullish body. Mild, mealy mouthfeel with slight heat. Dry resiny burnt coffee aftertaste with sooty lacquer and alcohol notes. Excellent! Balanced and drinkable, and full of flavour. (0.5l bottle, Fish & Beer, Copenhagen.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2011
at 13:12
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Black with a disappearing off-white head. Aroma of licorice, dark chocolate and hard roasted malt, with a hint of cherry. Sweetish licorice, chocolate and toffee flavour with a touch of hard roasted malt, and a bit of alcohol.
Tried
on 17 Aug 2011
at 12:37
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Viscous pour. Black with a coat of tan head that soon disappears. Modest but intense aroma with burnt malt, coffee, caramel, blackcurrants, alcohol. Oily texture. Sweet and full of chocolate and coffee with roasted flavours supporting. Some dark fruit, some astringency. Bitterness doesn’t quite overcome the thick sweet flavours but it’s there. Nice carbonation level helps make it very drinkable. It’s a big, rich and perfectly sound stout that just didn’t seem to have anything much to say. [7 2 7 3 14] Bottle. Black with a good inch of tan head that lasts pretty well. Aroma of singed malt, mocha, molasses - smells both a bit burnt and sweet. Oily but not a lot of body for 10%. Mocha and somewhat syrupy sweetness, decently bitter and slightly astringent finish. No real bottom end. Burnt flavours only somewhat masked by sweetness and bitterness. Expected to want to disown my previous rating but this one is for others.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 May 2011
at 06:06
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Jan & Charlottes tasting, Ulfborg, Denmark 09.04.11 cheers Jan & Charlotte This has a very nice aroma, roasty a little dark sugar and a touch of liqourice and even a little soured cream. Pours black with a beige head. Wonderfully roasty in the mouth, there is a little warmth from the alcohol, touch milky. Cappucino in the mouth, creamy but while the roastiness lasts for a long while there are some late hops coming to join the fray. A8 A5 T9 P4 Ov16 4.2
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Apr 2011
at 23:19
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle 500ml. @ UK-SCO Tasting in Ulfborg.Clear dark brown color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, sweet dark bread, roasted, chocolate, caramel. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, chocolate, coffee - dark malt bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110409]
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Apr 2011
at 06:42
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
bottle at jans ... black ... thin tan lacing ... sweet slight burnt roast malt big berry fruit nose ... light bitter front ... big chocolate .. light aniseed ... dark fig and plums ... 3.8 btl brew dog ... black ... sweet malt ... soft cchocolate ... little aniseed ... dark fruits ... very nice 4.0
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Apr 2011
at 12:47
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
50 cL bottle. Pours dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is dark chocolate and caramelish. Slight smoked and dry malty flavoured. Roasted and liqourice dark malty flavoured. Dark malty and roasted. Smooth and lingering finish. Solid bitter into the far finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2011
at 05:21