BBIS
Reuben's Brews in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.41
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BBIS is brewed using the same oat-forward and British specialty malt recipe that we followed with the original release in 2013. Over the years we have adjusted and enhanced it, introducing new techniques to produce a bigger, richer, and silkier beer. Most of the barrels in this year’s blend have spent about 18 months aging in 8- to 12-year-old bourbon barrels, with the addition of some younger BBIS to contribute to the complexity of this bold imperial stout.
Tasting notes: Warming aromas of cocoa, milk chocolate and bourbon. The sip offers a silky mouthfeel, with vanilla and rich milk chocolate mid palate. Background notes of smoke, licorice and coffee are wrapped up with some cherry liquor at the finish.
Malts: C-60, Cara Munich, Chocolate, Crisp Pale Chocolate, ESB, Pale, Roast Barley
Hops: Magnum
Tasting notes: Warming aromas of cocoa, milk chocolate and bourbon. The sip offers a silky mouthfeel, with vanilla and rich milk chocolate mid palate. Background notes of smoke, licorice and coffee are wrapped up with some cherry liquor at the finish.
Malts: C-60, Cara Munich, Chocolate, Crisp Pale Chocolate, ESB, Pale, Roast Barley
Hops: Magnum
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
(2025) clear, bright, very dark brown colour with a small brown head; aroma of wet wood, milk chocolate; balanced flavour with a long, light bitter finish
Tried
from Draft
at
Reuben's Brews - Downtown Taproom
on 21 Feb 2026
at 23:38
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
22oz bottle. Pours nearly black with minimal head. Huge bourbon, molasses, burn sugars, and charred wood on the nose. Flavour has tons of charred bourbon barrels, burnt sugar, bread crusts, and molasses. Great malt depth and barrel character with good integration and complexity.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Reuben's Brews - Downtown Taproom
on 26 Dec 2025
at 22:17
6.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dark brown, boozy and rich, some headsy phenols from the barrel. Lots of sugar. The base stout is on the sweet side, doesn’t have a complex malt character. It’s decent but definitely a bit too boozy for me.
Tried
on 09 Mar 2025
at 05:51
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Trade. Shared at Delaneys, Odense. Pours mega Black with a small beige head and lacings. Roast and bourbon. Slick vanilla, No booze, coffee and a touch of dried fruit. Well rounded and quite sippable for 14%. Excellent bourbon impy with No messin about. Chocofanter. Nice
Tried
on 15 Oct 2023
at 08:17
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle, shared by Jon, 2022 version. Pours black. Chocolate, biscuit, bourbon, nutty, vanilla, intense booze, cherry. Oily body. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2023
at 21:54
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Flaska från Reuben's, årgång 2019, 14%. Mörk brunsvart med tjusig brun krona. Väldigt mycket bourbonfat i både doft och smak. Massor av bourbon, toffee, hårt rostade toner, läkerol, likörpralin, marsipanbröd, saltlakrits. Stor kropp med riktigt mycket fatprofil, utan att det slår över i för mycket. Rejält med bourbonsmak, ligger kvar länge i munnen. Old school storlek större. Riktigt gott.
Tried
on 07 Feb 2021
at 17:58
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Courtesy of Sergey
Black colour. Lean and elegant, with strong bourbon character and strong alcohol, cocoa, touch of marzipan. Warming.
Very good.
Black colour. Lean and elegant, with strong bourbon character and strong alcohol, cocoa, touch of marzipan. Warming.
Very good.
Tried
on 13 Dec 2019
at 09:41
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
22oz from Co-op at Alex's shared with Andrey. Appearance: dark brown with a beige head. Aroma: a bit sweet, bourbon, some booze. Taste: along the same lines, some licorice. Overall: pretty nice
Tried
on 13 Dec 2019
at 06:20
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
2016 on tap at the brewery. Pours black with small beige head that diminishes to nothing. The aroma is wood, bourbon, vanilla, roast. Medium body, roast, cocoa, vanilla, light smoke, boozy finish, very good.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Nov 2016
at 11:46
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Black with brown head. Woody alcoholic nose and palate, both so strong nothing else comes through
Tried
on 30 Jul 2016
at 23:30