Counsel
2 Crows Brewing Co. in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.21
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Brewed with a wide assortment of caramel malts, roasted barley, chocolate malt, oats and flaked barley, and boiled for 24 hours to allow for more caramelization and to really amplify the brew’s intensity. Fermented warm with Oslo yeast, a wonderfully neutral kveik yeast strain from Bootleg Biology. After fermentation, the beer was conditioned on French oak and 100lbs of toasted coconut before being lagered for 5 weeks. Finally, after canning into cute little 355ml cans, we allowed the beer to condition a further 3 months to allow all the flavours to integrate nicely. Roasty, smooth, and lush with assertive roast, lovely soft coconut, and light tannin structure, full silky body, and clean finish.
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pictoman (9684) reviewed Counsel from 2 Crows Brewing Co. 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Poured from 355mL can (pkg 22/01/2020). Dark brown with beige head. Light roast, a bit of kveik, mild chocolate and oak, very feint hint of coconut. Decent, but a little flat and needs more coconut. Could be the age.
Boutip (9769) reviewed Counsel from 2 Crows Brewing Co. 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can: Poured a black color imperial stout with large brown foamy head with some retention and light lacing. Aroma of chocolate notes with some coconut notes. Taste is a mix of chocolate notes with some coconut and light roasted malt notes. Body is a bit thin for style with good carbonation and no apparent alcohol notes. Too thin for the style with slight mix of balance in flavors.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Counsel from 2 Crows Brewing Co. 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can, from Cask & Barrel in West Kelowna. Dark brown. Chocolate and coconut jump out of the glass first and foremost. There's a moderate bitterness, again a fairly chocolatey character, and then a touch of toasted coconut late just to round things out. I would say it drinks bigger than the low (for style) abv would suggest. Good stuff.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Counsel from 2 Crows Brewing Co. 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
2020-11-03, can from Firefly, Vancouver, 7-4-6-2-11=30
Arg! This can is completely different from the one I had in the summer (it was sitting in the fridge all the time); it's quite dry, moderately sour, with cherry and sour grapes juice; some liquorice, no oak, no coconut; it's also a bit metallic.
Bummer.
2020-06-21, courtesy of Riley, can, 8-4-8-4-16=40
Pitch black colour, with brown head. Creamy aroma, dark chocolate, and some cookies. Dark chocolate flavour; there's no coconut, no bourbon, no kveik, instead roasted almonds.
Very good.
Ferris (26026) reviewed Counsel from 2 Crows Brewing Co. 5 years ago
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Jet black brown with a rich nice brown head. Lots of roast and woody notes. Bitter, woody and toast with a bit of bitterness. Nice and bold.
BeerPlace (10899) reviewed Counsel from 2 Crows Brewing Co. 5 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
16oz (thx, Alex!) in Golden Ears shared with Andrey and Alex on the Alouette lake beach. Appearance: very dark brown with a beige head. Aroma: roasty, fruity, some leather. Taste: along the same lines. Overall: good Imperial Stout, but coconut is missed here.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Counsel from 2 Crows Brewing Co. 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
341mL can, pours black with a small light brown head. Nose is a bit herbaceous, with oats, cocoa, red wine -- not getting any coconut. Flavour is bizarre for an impie, with herbaceous / vegetal notes (from the kveik yeast?), with the cocoa further subdued, a dry oat presence, and a hint of woody oak. Not sure this is as cohesive as it could be; there's a bit of a metallic presence, some iron, some iodine. The mouthfeel is oily and silky, yet I'm not wholly convinced on the flavour cohesion.