Big Bad Baptist - Sextuple Barrel
Epic Brewing Company in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.58
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Dark brown. Dark chocolate, some nuttiness. It's a mess. Nothing stands out. Not a bad mess like things don't work, but just nothing stands out so you have a big strong beer, lots of booze, so it is thin. As it turns out, this just kind of falls apart. Not badly or anything but there's definitely better variants of this beer and as multi-barrel bitchslaps go, this isn't really getting there.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
22 oz. bottle, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma is rather monstrous, with salt, bourbon barrels, and cocoa. Flavour is smooth, with lots of whiskey, coffee and cocoa upfront, with a touch of salt. Not really noticing the almonds or coconut. Comes across rather flat and lacking depth, but there's obviously plenty of whiskey depth here. Good, but very gimmicky -- barrel aged salt, barrel aged almonds? Give me a break. Just a good BA impie stout with adjuncts.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Refrigerated brown bomber poured into a snifter. Black with small beige head. Aroma is whiskey, medium body, lower carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is chocolate, whiskey, wood, and booze. Heavy, but complex.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Jet black brown with a rich light brown head. Intense coffee and chocolate. Rich chocolate and coffee with a long nice coffee and toasted coconut finish. Coffee comes through as the king, barrels not so much.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Bottle picked up from I forgot where and consumed at Campinplatz Aichalehof, Staffelsee, Saturday 10th July 2021 after a 24km hike around Staffelsee. Pours black with a tan head, chocolate, whisky, oak, nutty edge, vanilla, toffee, caramel, more chocolate. It's all here. Very nice Impy'Stout.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Epic’s most ambitious beer I presume, a series that has been in existence since 2016; apparently it is not just the beer as such which has aged on (whisky) barrels, but also its adjuncts, namely cocoa, coconut, almond, coffee and salt, making for six barrel ageings in total – hence the name ‘sextuple barrel’. Medium thick, mocha-beige, membrane-lacing, opening but edge-retaining head on a black beer with thin burgundy edge. Aroma of Chocotoff candy, almond, walnut oil, drambuie, lots and lots of toffee, kahlua, dry beef stock cubes, lots of oak wood and its associated vanilla, blood, black coffee, wet leather, salmiak, indeed a whiff of dried coconut flesh, fresh bayleaf, something minerally (which may well represent the salt). Dense, sweet onset with a thin umami edge, dried prunes, currants, marmite, soft carb with very full, oily, creamy mouthfeel; walnutty and bitter-chocolatey, toffeeish layers of malt fill the mouth completely, with quite a lot of vivid coffee bitterness towards the end, along with pronounced tannic woodiness and indeed a salted caramel hint from the salt. Almond is less discernible and blends in with the nutty-sweetish aspect of the malt composition; a dash of spicy hop bitterness and warming, whisky-like alcohol top it all off into a wonderful grand finale. Intense and boastful, very American ‘impy’; I wonder what the purpose is of barrel ageing all those added ingredients, but the end result is wildly complex – sipping one of these, peeling off layer after layer of flavour, is undeniably a great drinking experience. By far the best I ever had of this usually very solid and trustworthy brewery, big American craft the way I like it, still managing to maintain a balance between all those components – which is the reason I am scoring this high profile beer so high here. Exemplary in every single way.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Poured from a 22 oz bottle. Aroma is very adjunct-forward with tons of coffee and chocolate with much lighter coconut notes. Moderate roast and chocolate malt notes. Light caramel and nut notes with light bourbon and alcohol notes. Pours jet black with a medium large, thick, dark mocha head that recedes slowly to a small, thick, creamy film that lingers. Light lacing and long legs. Flavor is rather sweet with moderate chocolate and roast notes with light notes of caramel and toffee. Moderately strong bitterness and moderate alcohol notes. Lots of coffee, and cacao nibs with light coconut and faint almond notes. Hints of salt. Medium light bourbon and faint oak notes. Mouthfeel is full bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, a solid imperial stout. Loads of adjuncts, but this isn't a pastry stout. Coffee notes are much stronger than other adjuncts. Coconut and almond are rather muted.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Bottle. Black beer with a brown head. Chocolate and coffee aroma with whiskey and coconut. Chocolate and caramel flavor with whiskey and coffee. Fuller bodied. Whiskey and chocolate linger with caramel, toffee, coffee, and coconut.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle code SLC 7166. Release #3.
Pours pitch black with a pretty awesome head of tan foam, lacing is above average.
Nose is whiskey, coconut, coffee, chocolate in that order. Nice.
Coconut dominates the taste. Whiskey barrel shines, chocolate is more of a milk than dark, it adds some sweetness. Bitter notes come from the coffee.
Full bodied, alcohol increases with every sip to my palate.
A sip sip sipper but enjoyable.