Imperial Café Racer - Bourbon Barrel Aged
Fierce Beer Co in Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland 🏴
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.69
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Small batch edition 18.1
We do love Imperial Café Racer. The combination of smooth espresso and Madagascan vanilla is just fabulous. However, allowing it to rest in Bourbon barrels for nine months and creating this amazing brew was definitely time very well spent!
We do love Imperial Café Racer. The combination of smooth espresso and Madagascan vanilla is just fabulous. However, allowing it to rest in Bourbon barrels for nine months and creating this amazing brew was definitely time very well spent!
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can at Craig's. Pours dark brown with a thick tan head. Aromas of bourbon, coffee, chocolate. Taste is more of the same. Decent.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Jul 2022
at 19:12
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
440 ml can.pours black with moderate tan head. Aromas of bourbon, chocolate nougat, graham cracker and slick roasted malts. Flavors follow same with additional vanilla and emphasis on sweet bourbon. Very nice.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Oct 2021
at 11:50
8.5/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
440 ml can, small batch edition 18.1, from the brewery webshop. ABV is 9%. Pitch black colour, moderate tan head. Aroma of roast malts, bourbon, fusel alcohols, molasses, vanilla, chocolate, oak and coffee. Roasty and medium sweet flavour with the same elements as the aroma, fusel is now less distinct, moderate hops. Very tasty beer.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Jun 2021
at 14:45
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Black beer, brown head. Sweet aroma of boozy malt. Flavour has chocolate, toasty malt, some fruit and a pretty hefty boozy, spirits quality but without being overpowered by it. Some liquorice through it too. I'd perhaps have liked the other flavours to be a bit more dominant but this is still really good, really rich and smooth. Fierce know their way around an Imperial dark as well as anybody.
Earlier Rating: 9/28/2019 Total Score: 4.2
Black beer with a decent collar. Smell is malty chocolate with a strong waft of bourbon. Tastes delicious. Maltz chocolate, coffee, vanilla, caramel, bourbon. And as I've come to expect from Fierce the balance is perfect. A big, rich smooth stout with loads going on. A brilliant, warming imperial stout.
Earlier Rating: 9/28/2019 Total Score: 4.2
Black beer with a decent collar. Smell is malty chocolate with a strong waft of bourbon. Tastes delicious. Maltz chocolate, coffee, vanilla, caramel, bourbon. And as I've come to expect from Fierce the balance is perfect. A big, rich smooth stout with loads going on. A brilliant, warming imperial stout.
Tried
on 06 Feb 2021
at 23:49
7.5/10
Tried
on 27 Nov 2020
at 23:39
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Black with a thick tan head. Aroma of cafe latte, vanilla, lactose, light cocoa powder. Flavour is heavy sweet. Medium to full bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Nov 2020
at 23:32
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
44 cl can @ home, BBE 29.05.2022 Aroma has coffee, licorice and alcohol. Flavour has coffee, licorice, some chocolate and pastry stout notes. Also bourbon and vanilla. Pleasant, balanced and delicious.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Nov 2020
at 18:57
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 8
Overall 7
Short-lived dark tan head over black beer. Vanilla, Bourbon, sweet, vanilla cake, mocha, espresso. Sweet, Bourbon, vanilla cream, I praliné /I, chocolate, typically dessert-like. Full bodied, alcoholheat. A tad too sweet, after all, as oversugared espresso with vanillasugar. Still drinkable, however.
Tried
from Can
from
Station 1280
on 14 Nov 2020
at 09:40
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can 18.1, 9. Very dark brown with small beige head. Aroma is roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, vanilla and a little espresso. Flavour is roasted malt, chocolate, caramel, vanilla, sweet, hop, little liquorice and medium bitter.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Oct 2020
at 21:48
8/10
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Tried
from Can
on 26 Sep 2020
at 09:54