Lykov

River's Edge Brewing Company in Milford Charter Township, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸

Stout - Imperial Rotating

Score

7.01

ABV: 11.9%

IBU: -

Ticks: 2

Imperial Stout Aged in Bourbon, Scotch, Rum & Brandy Barrels. In 1936, the Lykov family fled their small town in Russia to a life of isolation in the Siberian taiga. More than 42 years later, they were discovered by a team of geologists working in the area. Subsisting mostly on potatoes, rye and pine nuts, the Lykovs had children that had never even seen another human outside their family of six. This beer is about time and isolation. Four different types of spirit barrels aging the same beer for over a year then blended together into a beer that drinks like a meal. Na Zdrovia! (На здоровье)

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8.1

superspak (10160) reviewed Lykov from River's Edge Brewing Company 7 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

6800th review! 22 ounce bottle into snifter, bottled on 3/1/2018. Pours pitch black color with a 1 finger fairly dense and fluffy tan head with solid retention, that reduces to a ring of lace that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, molasses, vanilla, toffee, bourbon, rum, peat smoke, leather, tobacco, nuttiness, toasted oak, and dark/brown bread; with lighter notes of licorice, raisin, plum, fig, red grape, cherry, citrus zest, herbal, floral, and yeast/roast/oaky earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt and spirit barrel notes; with great strength. Taste of big milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, molasses, vanilla, toffee, bourbon, rum, peat smoke, leather, tobacco, nuttiness, toasted oak, and dark/brown bread; with lighter notes of licorice, raisin, plum, fig, red grape, cherry, citrus zest, herbal, floral, and yeast/roast/oaky earthiness. Light herbal/roast/char bitterness and spirit/oak tannin spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, molasses, vanilla, toffee, bourbon, rum, peat smoke, leather, tobacco, nuttiness, toasted oak, dark/brown bread, light licorice/dark fruit, herbal, floral, and yeast/roast/oaky earthiness on the finish for a while. Awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and spirit barrel flavors; with an awesome roasted bitter/sweet and spirit/oak spiciness balance; with zero cloying/acrid/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering hop/roast bitterness and oak spiciness. Medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/bready, and lightly sticky/chalky/tannic mouthfeel that is great. Mildly increasing warmth of 11.9%, with zero barrel booziness lingering after the finish. Overall this is an awesome barrel aged imperial stout! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and spirit barrel flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the big ABV. Very rich malt complexity, with awesome barrel integration. Never overly bitter, tannic, or drying. Most barrel prominence with the Scotch, followed by rum/bourbon; with the brandy in the back. A really enjoyable offering.

Tried from Bottle on 25 May 2018 at 22:07

6.9

deyholla (22727) reviewed Lykov from River's Edge Brewing Company 7 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle thanks to my Mom! Pours black with a light brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has roasted malts with dark grains and a good amount of barrel underlying. Flavor has earthy dark grains, roasted malts and a hint of peat with barrel notes supporting.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Apr 2018 at 04:45