Garage Series 1: War & Peace
Fulton Beer Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.37
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Sample at Lizardville Westerville. Brown-black pour with a medium beige head that recedes gradually to a film. Small patches of lace. Roast malt, coffee and vanilla in the nose. Medium body with a roasty coffee and malt character, with notes of vanilla and chocolate in the background. The finish is sweet and roasty with a vanilla coffee aftertaste. Pretty good all around.
Tried
on 23 Apr 2019
at 19:10
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Fulton, pours black with a small beige head. Aroma brings out medium roast, with the coffee beans upfront, and a touch of vanilla. Flavour is similar, with lots of coffee beans upfront, followed by vanilla and a touch of roast. Reasonably balanced and well-constructed. Solid impy.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Dec 2018
at 22:14
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Tavour. Pours dark brown with a slight dark tan head. Aroma of very nice coffee with some dark treacly background. Med + body or better. Flavor is very nice coffee, dark treacle and arguably some chocolate. It's very smooth and very tasty. From from dry, but coffee bitter. Just excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Feb 2018
at 02:49
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
12oz bottle. Small head in my pour. Hey, it's definitely a coffee beer. I mean lots of coffee in the aroma. Full on dark bean roast coffee. No offputting or bad coffee use. Frankly, can't tell there is beer beneath it. Flavor is a lot like cola beer mixed with slightly watered down cold coffee. A good deal of carbonation and a lighter body. A bit of ashtray aftertaste. I'm not into coffee beers but I can appreciate a good one. This one is just ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Feb 2018
at 02:24
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Got in a trade with The-Adjunct-Hippie. 12 ounce bottle into snifter, no bottle dating. Pours opaque dark brown/black color with a 1 finger dense khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice dense spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big nutty dark roasted coffee, dark chocolate, cocoa, caramel, molasses, toasted dark bread, herbal, pepper, and pine; with lighter notes of vanilla, smoke, charcoal, raisin, cherry, fig, leather, tobacco, and roast/toast/smokey earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of black/roast/bready malts, coffee, and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big nutty dark roasted coffee, dark chocolate, cocoa, caramel, molasses, toasted dark bread, herbal, pepper, and pine; with lighter notes of vanilla, smoke, charcoal, raisin, cherry, fig, leather, tobacco, and roast/toast/smokey earthiness. Moderate roast/char and herbal/piney/peppery hop bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of nutty coffee, dark chocolate, cocoa, caramel, molasses, toasted dark bread, vanilla, smoke, charcoal, dark fruit, herbal, pepper, pine, and roast/toast/smokey earthiness on the finish for a while. Awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of black/roast/bready malts, coffee, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a nice roast/hop bitter/sweet balance, and zero acrid/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from hop/char bitterness. Medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready/grainy, and fairly sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol for 9.5%. Overall this is an awesome Russian imperial coffee stout! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of black/roast/bready malts, coffee, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the ABV; despite the increasingly bitter/drying finish. Very rich with balanced nutty/fruity coffee and black/roasted malt complexity; with a nice earthy/piney hop presence. A really enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Oct 2017
at 19:33
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Good Imperial Stout, but there’s not much coffee present. Aroma is dark malt and a little bit of black patent. Flavor is like nose. It’s fairly balanced between bitter and sweet and very easy drinking although the Finish is on the better side.
Tried
on 01 Mar 2017
at 23:55
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Minnesota Trip Beer #93. Keg at the brewery, 5/9/16. Dark brown, large creamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of big coffee notes, roasted malt. The taste is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, vanilla. Medium bodied, mild lingering bitterness.
Tried
on 13 Oct 2016
at 00:38
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Refrigerated 75 cl brown bottle poured into a snifter. Black with small brown highlights and small beige. Aroma is nice coffee, medium body, low carbonation, and some lacing. Taste is coffee and dark malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2016
at 19:46