Big Ol' Mama
NovaBirra in Braine-l'Alleud, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij De RankeStout - Imperial Special Out of Production
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Score
6.92
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Kraddel (15810) reviewed Big Ol' Mama from NovaBirra 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pours black, small, dark tanned head with very short lifespan. Smell is low in intensity, has a certain tart side to it, as well as a mild roast. Sharp, overall, and not as intense as hoped for. Taste is intense roasty, bitter, mild tartness, some chocolate malts, fusel alcohols, burnt malts, very sharp. Medium to medium thick body, medium high carbo. Cocoa is noticable, but not as much as hoped. This beer could benifit from less alcohol, thicker body, lower carbo, and more balance. It certainly ain't bad as it is now, tho.
Sebletitje (15832) reviewed Big Ol' Mama from NovaBirra 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bouteille 75cl. Brune foncée, col épais crémeux retombant assez rapidement. Arôme au nez fruité (noir) effluves de whisky sont bien marquées et ces dernières prennent un peu le dessus sur le caractère malté chocolaté, caramel qui caractérise la version de base, surtout avec l’apport chocolat des dernières versions - batch2. Palais est assez fin même pour ce niveau d’alcool, le whisky ajoute un côté de fraicheur et je retrouve un profil bcp plus belge (la levure?) que sur les versions antérieures. Petite chaleur se forme avec qcq gorgées, et le caractère malté choco et caramel revient un peu à la charge. Boisé, chêne français, je suppose, donne aussi un certain cachet qu’on retrouve souvent dans l’usage de whisky. Une petite déception pour ma part, autant je suis fan des autres versions de ce stout impérial, autant je trouve que l’usage de whisky n’a pas vraiment apporté voire élevé la bière vers un fini qui justifie les 18€.
77ships (14509) reviewed Big Ol' Mama from NovaBirra 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Thank you Sebletitje! 750 ml. bottle sampled @ “Wish you were Adam Chandler” tasting. Light dark brown, little tanned head. Nose is weird vegetable umami, touch vinous oddly, quite rich in spirit. Taste is boozy, boozy whisky, lightly roasted malts, coffee grounds, oddly a bit vinous, too alcoholic, vegetable, herbal, light sweetness charred oak. Thick & boozy body. Base was a decent stout with some mild sweet coffee, cacao, it was decent, nothing crazy for an Imperial Stout. This one is too bitter, vegetable & umami like, oddly vinous & overly boozy, might have spent a bit too much time, I am not too crazy about this evolution. Glad that I didn’t buy a bottle of it, apparently this one is quite expensive as well.
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Big Ol' Mama from NovaBirra 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as NovaBirra Big Ol' Mama (by NovaBirra):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5
4/VII/16 - 75cl bottle @ Adam Jackson Tasting Without Adam Jackson - BB: 4/II/21, bottled: II/2016 (2016-732) Thanks to Sebletitje for sharing the bottle!
Clear dark brown beer, irregular creamy beige head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sweet, caramel, pretty roasted, bit vegetal. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty roasted, little sourish, hoppy, bitter, something's "wrong", it's hard to put my finger on it though. Maybe wrong yeast type for the beer style? Aftertaste: roasted, sweet, caramel, bit vegetal.