Garage Series 1: War & Peace
Fulton Beer Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.37
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. Pours almost black with a beige head. Roasted malt, coffee. but mostly coffee. Too much coffee. Not that impressive.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle. Pours a dark brown with no head. The aroma is roast, cocoa, wood. Medium mouth, lots of chocolate, nice roast, boozy finish, very good.
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.