Rain Shadow (2019)
(Batch of Rain Shadow)
Buxton Brewery in Buxton, Derbyshire, England 🏴
Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.87
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Theydon_Bois (46756) reviewed Rain Shadow (2019) from Buxton Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can split at James, from the Buxton Brew House, 19/09/20. Pitch black with a decent tan cap that clears to a swirl. Nose is bitter roast, dark chocolate, treacle toffee, light spice. Taste comprises dried fruits, more bitter roast, scorched brown, dried fruits, cocoa powder, charr. Full bodied, fine carbonation, balanced rising boost at the curtain call. Decent.
Mr_Pink_152 (17449) reviewed Rain Shadow (2019) from Buxton Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Tried at the canal house Nottingham. Jet black with a thick tan head. Aroma and taste roasted malty light smoked taste sweet to smokey bitter. Full body.
SinH4 (15514) reviewed Rain Shadow (2019) from Buxton Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can, many thanks Fin! Opaque darkest brown color with nice beige head. Aroma is chocolate, roast, caramel, iodine. Taste is strawberries at firsr, chocolate, iodine, full-bodied, rich. Thick oily mouthfeel with low carbonation. Very classic Imperial Stout, very good!
jhaase (14941) reviewed Rain Shadow (2019) from Buxton Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can, thanks a lot Fin! Darkest cramy brown, dark brown cream. Dry dark chocolate, caramel, allspice, fruity coffee. Medium full, sweet but balanced, dark chocolate sauce, tobacco, wood, berry, light nut, salt/iodone nut caramel. Chewy, very nice.
CambridgeUtd (3880) reviewed Rain Shadow (2019) from Buxton Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Black with a minimal light brown head. Aroma of roasted malt, wooden barrels, dark chocolate and dark fruits sense. Sweet with a warm wooden barrels and dark chocolate end. BB 06.2021, bought at Alko Rovaniemi, FIN nov2019
BenL8 (2072) reviewed Rain Shadow (2019) from Buxton Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can. Almost no head, pours completely black. Aroma is complex, layered dark malts, caramel, coffee, chocolate, lots of dark malts. Quite a bit of fruitiness and berries as well, pine and earthy; I feel like the hops give this quite a bit of additional complexity on top of the dark malts, giving this a bit of a foresty note. Medium to big body, not super thick. Flavour is intense and complex dark malts, lot more roasted barley than I expected from aroma but balanced nicely by chocolate malt and flavours of chocolate, espresso, lots of roastiness, licorice. Medium to high bitterness, balances a medium sweetness. Still a touch of pine, some earthy flavours and indeed a bit jammy, blackberry and blueberry. A bit of burnt flavours, especially in the finish, with a bit of charred wood. Hint of cinnamon and vanilla in the finish, as well as bittersweet chocolate and a bit earthy. Long finish. Lovely. Really brings out the specialty dark malts and I am happy that the hops are accentuated as well (something which is sadly not that common in imperial stouts)!
Fin (18516) reviewed Rain Shadow (2019) from Buxton Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Can picked up from Buxton Webshop, München, had this at home Attenkirchen Saturday 23rd May 2020, whilst on a lengthy zoom call with Jude and Baz. Pours black with a tan head. Aroma is roasty, a little hint of hedgerow fruits, woody (burnt & wet) some vanilla, chocolate. Very smooth in the mouth, taste is as above, with a little black pepper, really full bodied. Excellent.
Fergus (31537) reviewed Rain Shadow (2019) from Buxton Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Can at home picked up from beer ritz. An opaue, brown black coloured pour with a creamy dark tan head, Aroma is earthy roast, liquorice , charred wood, cow pat, Earthyu roast, spice, pine, dark choc. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, liquorice, black roast, jammy fruit, little cinnamon, some vanilla. Really fucking good. Rich, jammy fruit. blackberry. . Palate is semi sweet, light tang, blackberry, dark choc. Rich.
Grumbo (24737) reviewed Rain Shadow (2019) from Buxton Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
4/5/2020. Sample courtesy of the SHIG, cheers! Pours rich dark mahogany brown / almost black with a small creamy beige head. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malt, caramel, nut, coffee and dark fruits. Moderate sweetness and medium roasted bitterness. Full body, slick texture, soft carbonation. Deep bitter roast finish. Very drinkable.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Rain Shadow (2019) from Buxton Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
Renewed version of the barrel aged Rain Shadow by Buxton, aged on bourbon barrels. Bottle of now almost a year old, bought from Gedeelde Vreugde in Sint-Niklaas (in between Ghent and Antwerp). Initially thick and foamy, membrane-lacing, deep brownish mocha coloured head, thinning until almost nothing of it is left, but slowly so; pitch black robe with thin burgundy edges. Intense nose of cold espresso, whisky, lots of bitter black chocolate, dusty old wood, hard caramel, bayleaf, dry old walnuts, dry chocolate cake, pipe tobacco ashes, molasses, cigars in a cedarwood case, hints of Worcestershire sauce, salmiak, treacle, nutmeg and black olives. Very focused and intense, yet elegant flavour profile: restrained dried prune sweetishness at first, paired with light sourishness underneath and a faint dash of black olive umami, softly carbonated with a very thick, oily but smooth body. Profoundly walnutty, toasted-bready, hard-caramelly and bitter-chocolatey malt profile, complex and layered, bittersweet but putting more emphasis on bitterness than on sweetness, though a sweeter chocolatey effect surely lingers on. 'Blood'-like metallic effects subtly pop up here and there but feel completely natural, an inherent part of the play; ends very coffeeish-roasted, even a tad ashy, drenched in drying woody tannins and a strong, hot and boozy bourbon flavour, accompanied by hints of salmiak and bayleaf - but also a very pronounced, spicy hop bitterness managing to pierce through the thick roasty maltiness, adding a vibrant, pleasantly peppery effect. Long, complex finish, very boozy as expected yet somehow this booziness manages to avoid damaging drinkability - while oaky 'vanilla' notes linger retronasally. Intensely, deeply and respectfully old school, maintaining relative drinkability in spite of all its intensity (a difficult exercise), with a roasty, rustic effect that is only intensified by the bourbon barrel treatment - the standard Rain Shadow is enough of a masterpiece as it is, but this is one of those examples where liquor barrel ageing has actually improved the basic beer. And with the basic beer already being a 'chef-d'oeuvre', well... One of the best stout ever to come out of England and reach my taste buds, consolidating my view on this brewery as being among the very best of England, even with very stiff competition going on throughout the country.