Battle Axe Stout (2023)
Arizona Wilderness Brewing Company in Gilbert, Arizona, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Special|
Score
7.53
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First brewed in 2017 and brought back for our 10th anniversary, this brutal imperial stout was aged many months in Scotch barrels for smooth, peaty smokiness.
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8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Slim 12oz can pours with a nice deep dark chocolate mahogany colored body that supports a thin ring of tan bubbles. The aroma offers up chocolate flowing into subtle boozy barrel treatment and a sense of dark fruity esters. The taste delivers chocolate like notes mingling deeply with dark roasted malts. To midway the tangy barrel treatment comes along in a mild manner adding more depth as the modest booziness rises toward the finish. The barrel treatment only offers mild to even subtle smoky peatiness, unfortunately. I could really go for a bigger barrel treatment. This isn't nearly as intense as the first batch. It is, however, opening up some as it warms. I dig it.
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from Can
on 03 Oct 2023
at 02:47