Dragon's Milk Reserve: Raspberries
New Holland Brewing Company in Holland, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.20
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This beer is from our collection of special variations that live in our Dragon’s Milk cellar. Local raspberries were added to the barrels in the final stages of conditioning. Raspberries lend depth, brightness and unique fruit character that harmonizes beautifully with Dragon’s Milk dark, roasty tones of malt, bourbon and oak.
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8/10
Tried
on 27 Jan 2018
at 14:31
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Refrigerated brown bomber poured into a glass. Translucent medium brown with small beige head. Aroma is dark malt with raspberry, medium body, light carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is raspberry, chocolate, bourbon, and dark malt.
Tried
on 14 Jan 2016
at 19:37
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
12 oz. bottle thanks going to Willrunforbeer, thanks, I think? Ruby color, not black. Aroma is an over the top fake raspberry. Just fake raspberry.... Uhhhh what?
This is not an imperial stout. Body is thin and the chocolate is more like caramel. Body is flimsy and weak. I don’t taste any bourbon at all. It’s more like a brown ale with artificial flavor added. I’m glad I didn’t pay for this or I would be pissed off. A very huge disappointment.
This is not an imperial stout. Body is thin and the chocolate is more like caramel. Body is flimsy and weak. I don’t taste any bourbon at all. It’s more like a brown ale with artificial flavor added. I’m glad I didn’t pay for this or I would be pissed off. A very huge disappointment.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2015
at 16:31
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Poured from bottle thanks Willrunforbeer dark brown black and medium tan head. Aromas of faint raspberry and chocolate. Taste is faint coffee raspberry cocoa. --- Beer merged from original tick of Dragon's Milk Reserve: Raspberries on 26 Dec 2015 at 17:17 - Score: 7
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2015
at 16:17
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Let’s a lot of light through for an imperial stout. light orange 3 finger coffee colored head. Faint aroma but certainly has a distinct raspberry ad chocolate aroma. Well, it lives up to the name. chocolate, cocoa, raspberries and faint coffee. It’s good but very thin for an 11% beer.
Tried
on 26 Dec 2015
at 16:10
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Vintage 2014 bottle.
This was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a nice looking black color with no head and light strings of lacing.
The smell captured a powerful yet authentic raspberry aroma to blend with a little bit of coffee to bitter and slightly roasted cocoa bean.
The taste combines sweetly and roasty in a slight sticky sort of authentic way. A light sticky sweet raspberry aftertaste starts and runs slightly into a semi-dry yet roasty finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a pretty good sipping quality about it. The carbonation is there but a bit smoothed out, guessing it might be due to its age.
Overall, I say this was an excellent D/IS that New Holland executed well. However, I must admit, the bourbon seems to have settled out as its mostly un-noticeable.
This was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a nice looking black color with no head and light strings of lacing.
The smell captured a powerful yet authentic raspberry aroma to blend with a little bit of coffee to bitter and slightly roasted cocoa bean.
The taste combines sweetly and roasty in a slight sticky sort of authentic way. A light sticky sweet raspberry aftertaste starts and runs slightly into a semi-dry yet roasty finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a pretty good sipping quality about it. The carbonation is there but a bit smoothed out, guessing it might be due to its age.
Overall, I say this was an excellent D/IS that New Holland executed well. However, I must admit, the bourbon seems to have settled out as its mostly un-noticeable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2015
at 19:35
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
I am not crazy about Dragon’s Milk, but I like this more than than the regular version. Good, roasted malt flavor. Light raspberry is there but not dominating.
Tried
on 21 Feb 2015
at 13:10
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
22 ounce bottle into snifter, bottled on 12/8/2014. Pours nearly pitch black color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense khaki head with good retention that reduces to a thin cap that lingers . Light spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas if big tart raspberry, milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, toffee, vanilla, toasted oak, light bourbon, and oak/toasted earthiness. Fantastic complexity and balance of dark/roasted malt, raspberries, and bourbon barrel flavors; with great strength. Taste of big tart raspberry, milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, toffee, vanilla, toasted oak, light bourbon, and oak/toasted earthiness. Light fruity tartness/oaky bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of raspberry, milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, toffee, vanilla, toasted oak, light bourbon, and oak/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Incredible balance and complexity of dark/roasted malt, raspberries, and bourbon barrel flavors; with great malt/fruit tartness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and medium-full bodied; with a very smooth fairly creamy, and slightly slick/chalky mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a light warming present after the finish. Overall this is an incredible barrel aged imperial fruited stout. Al around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roasted malt, raspberries, and bourbon barrel flavors; and very smooth to sip on for the big ABV. Love the additional complexity and great balance that the tart raspberry fruit adds to this beer, it really places it far above the standard base beer for me. A highly enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2015
at 22:31
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle, Homer tasting. Pours clear sherry, small tan head. Aroma is lots of raspberry, a bit artificial, cocoa. Flavor is hella raspberry, chocolate rb truffles. Medium sweet, light bitter, a bit hot. Eh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2015
at 23:15
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
22 oz bottle. Pours deep brown to black with an off-white head. Candy raspberry aroma hinting at cocoa and bourbon. Flavor is also strong on sweet raspberry, balancing with the bourbon tones and cocoa, light roasty coffee. Great melding of flavors. The raspberry really brightens up an already good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2014
at 22:32