Alvin
Basqueland Brewing in Hernani, Basque Country, Spain 🇪🇸
Stout - Imperial Special|
Score
7.56
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This Stout will only improve with age (bottled Feb 6, 2016). It is infused with freshly toasted coffee beans and dried coffee skins from Sakona Coffee Roasters (Irun) along with split vanilla beans.
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8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Darkest brown. Aroma is toffee vanilla dark chocolate brown sugar. Taste is sweet dark chocolate with deep melasses and bitter spiky hops. Very smooth with vanilla finish. Nice.
Tried
on 05 Nov 2021
at 21:01
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at Fierce. It pours opaque black with a medium tan head. The earthy roast, big coffee action, cookie dough, rocky road and chocolate cake. The taste is rich roasted malt, chewy, sticky, oily, plenty of coffee, cookie dough, chocolate cake, more coffee, sticky and alcohol with a drying finish. Thick body, foamy carbonation and oily mouth feel. Big and chewy. Works well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jan 2020
at 16:55
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Shared bottle, many thanks. Dark brown color with medium beige head. Coffee, vanilla in aroma. Taste, coffee, light vanilla, licorice. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2019
at 18:10
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle sample at a tasting at Yoav's place. Black, tan foam. Roast, coffee, licorice, soy sauce, sweet and bitter, a bit umami, full-bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Nov 2019
at 16:49
9.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Même si je n'ai pas été totalement séduit par cet Alvin, il faut avouer que cet imperial stout, enrichi de vanille et de café, est très solide. Ses arômes pleins, francs et posés sont son grand atout, avec café, vanille, épices (poivre, piment) et chocolat. Le visuel est sur un noir total avec une fine mousse brune à sa surface. Le nez est relativement simple mais plein sur le café, chocolat et vanille. L'attaque est soyeuse sur un bon équilibre amertume/malt/alcool (80 d'EBU et 10,5%). Le cocktail aromatique est quant à lui intéressant sur le chocolat, la vanille, le café, la noisette et le poivre. La deuxième bouche est un peu plus poivrée et même pimentée. Ceux-ci sont d'ailleurs sur les devants. L'alcool à 10,5% ne se ressent que peu mais assoit bien les arômes. Le sucre est légèrement trop dosé à mon goût, sans que cela soit péjorable néanmoins. L’arrière-bouche, sur une très bonne présence, voit les épices quasiment disparaître pour faire la part belle au café et à la vanille. Le final, long est sur une alliance amertume/alcool qui me laisse quelque peu circonspect. De manière plus général c'est l'enchaînement de l'ensemble qui me questionne au-delà de toutes les grandes qualités de cet imperial stout qui se savoure lentement.
Tried
on 28 Oct 2019
at 12:05
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours oily roasted, coffee, dark chocolate, sweet, some sharp alcoholic flavors, creamy, smooth, vanilla, vanilla, some dark dried fruits --- Beer merged from original tick of Basqueland Alvin on 21 Mar 2019 at 22:07 - Score: 7. Original review text: Pours oily roasted, coffee, dark chocolate, sweet, some sharp alcoholic flavors, creamy, smooth, vanilla, vanilla, some dark dried fruits
Tried
on 25 Mar 2019
at 14:16
8/10
Tried
on 18 Jan 2019
at 22:49
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft. A black beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, coffee, and dark chocolate. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, caramel, dark chocolate, and coffee, leading to a dry finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Dec 2018
at 14:19
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Appearance: Very dark brown, close to black. Nice, dark tan head. Aroma: Dark malt, coffee, roasted. Some vanilla. Taste: Very dark malt, roasted, nice coffee notes and vanilla. Enjoyable! Bought: Trade with teddybeer - thanks!, 330 ml Info: 31/8-2018, BB: ??/??-????
Tried
on 04 Sep 2018
at 14:11
8/10
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at 10:22