Bring Out The Imp!! (Côtes du Rhône Cask)
Alechemy Brewing in Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland 🏴
Stout - Oatmeal Special|
Score
7.38
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 17
A great aroma of chocolate, sweet fruit, coffee, and red wine. How about a whiff of recently sharpened pencil?? More of the same in a big, rich taste profile. Dark chocolate, ripe field berries, a slight red wine venousness, molasses and a hint of wood. A touch of acidity keeps it clean. Solid citrus hops in the background. Really tasty
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from the LCBO. Black pour, with a small light brown head. Aroma is semi sweet, cocoa, and soy, with some sweet fruit, dark roast coffee, light berries, light red wine. Mouthfeel is soft, and slightly oily, and a soft carb. Medium bitterness, sweet red wine notes, earthy, slightly woody finish. More coffee, and soy with a semi sweet maltiness.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Waitrose - still can't get used to Supermarkets stocking impys! This is mahogany-black with a thin but lasting tan head and a middling amount of fizz. Ooh... it's fruity! Yep, lots of homemade strawberry jam. Smoke. Caramel. Sherry. Leather. Black coffee. Vanilla. Victoria sandwich cake. There's a lot going on here. Pretty sweet with a dry finish. It's a very interesting beer and I loved it at first, but the more I drank the more I felt it was just a bit too jammy, and didn't quite gel as a whole. Maybe it suffered by comparison with the Redchurch brew I'd had just before. It's still very, very good, just not as good as I thought from the first taste.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Creamy tan head stayed on a dark brown still body. Heavy malt & chocolate aroma. Medium to full bodied, smooth, creamy & lighter on the back with clean aft. Sweet stewed fruit, jam, nutty, light coffee, liquorice & chocolate tastes with a big boozy red wine finish. Excellent!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
330ml bottle from Waitrose Pontypridd. Drunk watching a programme about cats on BBC4. Dark appearance, thin tan ring circling the glass. Nice comforting aroma with milk chocolate, vanilla, almond. Oily palate, medium bodied with welcome vinous shades accompanying the molasses and subtle liquorice. A harmonious blend overall, really satisfying.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Black with a medium light brown head. Aroma of burned malt, coffee and some wooden barrels end. Sweet with a burned malt and coffee ending.
Excellent
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9.5
Super thick, smooth, sweet and rich. Excellent balance between a chocolaty, sweet, rich stout, and woody, vinous tannins from the cask. Molasses, deep red wine, chocolate, cherry and a lovely mellow bitterness at the back end. Amazing beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
330ml bottle from the LCBO. Super dark mahogany with just a hint of khaki coloured head with an aggressive pour. Nose is molasses, dark fruit, wood, licorice, dark chocolate, coffee, red wine and roasted nuts. Wine is more prominent in the flavour with a light fruit sweetness and a medium- dark chocolate and coffee bitterness. Mouth is medium+ and oily with soft carbonation. Alcohol is warming but not distracting. 9-/3/8/3+/16-
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle: Poured a pitch-black color ale with a large dark brown foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of roasted malt with some vinous notes also perceptible. Taste is a good mix of roasted malt with some light dry bitter notes, some vinous notes with some fruity red wine notes. Body is about average with some silky creamy notes and good carbonation with no real apparent alcohol notes. Enjoyable but fruity wine notes do become overwhelming after a while.