Junie: Life For a Puppy Shouldn't Be So RUFF
(has 3 batches)

Imperial stout from the state of Michigan, United States, sampled at BCBF. No head whatsoever, ink black robe. Aroma of cola (!), fudge, milk chocolate or chocolate milk, vanilla, blackberry juice, brown rum, nougat, bourbon. Extremely sweet onset – (Pepsi) cola again, with caramel-coated raisins perhaps, softly tingling fizz in spite of the lack of head, smooth but full body, oddly somewhat less sticky than expected based on that cola-like sweetness, probably due to that souring, minerally fizz underneath it all; ‘Koetjesreep’, fudge and cappuccino flavours join in as well as, in the end, warming brown rum-like alcohol (peppery in the throat), but that weird cola sweetness remains dominant. Imperial stout has undergone a strong evolution towards sweetness (from its original bitterness) in the past decade or two and I guess many American consumers have gotten used to that, especially the younger craft beer geeks, but this is ridiculously sweet even for a pastry stout, rendering it a bit one-dimensional…

Pours black, no real head. Scent is soy, caramelly, roasty. Taste is sharp, roasty, bit bitter., boozy. Rather sweet. OK, not as extremely good as some of their others, but still quite damn nice indeed !

Draught No head, pitch black beer. Very sweet & boozy nose. Raisins in rum or USA whisky, vanilla. Bourbon, vanilla, raisins, sweet dried plums with booze-filled chocolate cake and dried fruit (plum, apricot, sultanas). Thick, syrupy, undercarbonated. Well. This is typically overdoing the pastry punch. How utterly American.

10/XI/23 - on tap @ Billies Craft Beer Festival (Antwerp), Day 1 - part 1, BB: n/a (2023-929) Thanks to NathanVC for sharing today’s beers!

Clear dark brown to purple brown beer, no head. Aroma: very malty, good roast, a bit oxidized, yeasty, ripe banana, acetaldehyde, yeasty, ripe banana, caramel, sugary impression. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very sweet and sugary, pretty oxidized, malty, banana, meh. Aftertaste: sugary, some alcohol, malty, yeast, some milk chocolate, way too sweet and sugary, don’t like it.

Solid big stout, support robust nothing pokey and just clean to the pint. __ billies craft beer festival 2023__

Black with no head. Aroma and flavour have a vanilla and dark chocolate sweetness. It gets pleasantly boozy. Super thick and oily. --- Beer merged from original tick of Junie Life For A Puppy Shouldn't Be So Ruff Swirl on 01 Jan 2025 at 12:06 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5. Original review text: 2023 version. Black and very thick with no head. Aroma and flavour have something of red fruits and soy sauce. The light acidity doesn't belong.

Draft at Peders, Copenhagen. Poured almost black with little life. The aroma is roasty malt, big chocolate. The flavour is big sweet, with a smooth, rich, oily, sweet chocolate, liqourice, light warm alcohol bitter palate. Full bodied with flat carbonation.