Bourbon Street Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
Abita Brewing Company in Abita Springs, Louisiana, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.24
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Bourbon Street Stout is an Imperial Stout that is aged in Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon barrels. Our Imperial Stout is brewed with a combination of pale, caramel, chocolate and roasted malts. Oats are also added to give the beer a fuller and sweeter taste. The roasted malts give the beer its dark color as well as its intense flavor and aroma. After fermentation the beer is cold aged for 6 weeks. This is necessary for all of the flavors of the malt and hops to balance and produce a very smooth flavor.
After the cold aging the beer is transferred into the bourbon barrels. It is then aged for another 8 weeks to absorb all of the flavors from the barrels. The result is a strong stout that brings out the roasted flavors from the malt and the warming toasted, vanilla, and bourbon flavors from the barrels.
After the cold aging the beer is transferred into the bourbon barrels. It is then aged for another 8 weeks to absorb all of the flavors from the barrels. The result is a strong stout that brings out the roasted flavors from the malt and the warming toasted, vanilla, and bourbon flavors from the barrels.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, 22oz, shared by bergstaden. Murky dark, dark brown in the glass, topped by a dense, dark beige head. Roasted malts, coffee, dark chocolate, coconut and bourbon booze, some dried fruits and tobacco in the finish. It’s full-bodied, silky-smooth and nicely carbonated, slighlty warming and with a decent bitterness to deal with the sweetness. Roasted malts, dark chocolate, tobacco, bourbon and some dried fruits in the flavor. Lasting roasted malts finish with booze, coffee and dark chocolate. Lovely indeed, but a bit too much on the booze side for me. 170311
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2017
at 12:01
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle 650ml @ geokkjer
[Courtesy of bergstaden] Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate and lots of bourbon, vanilla, toffee, coconut, oak and alcohol. Taste is heavy sweet and light to medium bitter with a long warm, chocolate, coconut, vanilla, bourbon and toffee finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
[Courtesy of bergstaden] Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate and lots of bourbon, vanilla, toffee, coconut, oak and alcohol. Taste is heavy sweet and light to medium bitter with a long warm, chocolate, coconut, vanilla, bourbon and toffee finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2017
at 11:54
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
22 oz. bottle, pours black with a small off-white head. Aroma brings out cocoa, light bourbon barrels, and a hint of caramel. Flavour is rather tame for what you'd expect from a bourbon barrel imperial stout, with light bourbon barrel character upfront, a touch of vanilla, toasted malt and a little caramel. Very light-bodied for the style, and the flavours are rather underwhelming but still quite pleasant. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Mar 2017
at 21:45
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Medium brown. Thin head. The aroma shows a mellow barrel character, touch of vanilla. On the palate, a mellow vanilla character, a thinnish body, touch of chocolate. The bourbon character is really nice, sweet but not overwhelmingly so, and it melds well with the dark sugar malt elements. But there aren’t quite enough sugars. So good, but not great - would like more richness.
Tried
on 02 Mar 2017
at 21:40
8/10
Tried
on 26 Aug 2016
at 22:38
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
The beer pours brown-black with a medium tan head that recedes steadily to an outer ring. Partial rings of lacing. Roast malt, chocolate and oak in the nose. Medium to full body with flavors of oaky bourbon, malt and bittersweet chocolate. The finish is roasty and oaky with a bourbon aftertaste. Above average overall.
Tried
on 19 Apr 2016
at 11:23
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Winter Beer Dabbler, 2016. Black color, bottled. Moderate bourbon aroma and flavor, some carbonation. A little sweet. Roasted malt, and it dries out near the end of the sip. OK for a bourbon aged beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Feb 2016
at 21:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Coconut, vanilla, oak, dark chocolate nose, rich and complex. Black, medium tan head, low retention. Bourbon and oak, coffee underneath. Tastes nothing like it smells. Lighter body for the style, easy carbonation. Charred oak finish.
Tried
on 02 Dec 2015
at 17:13
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Brown-black beer with a light tan head. Chocolate and bourbon aroma. caramel and chocolate flavor with bourbon. Medium bodied. Caramel and bourbon lingers with light chocolate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2015
at 19:51
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sampled from the tap at the Oklahoma Craft Beer Festival. Pours a near clear dark brown with a brown head that lasts throughout the beer. Aroma has notes of musty dark grains with a bit of bitter chocolate supported by bourbon. Flavor has musty dark grains with bitter chocolate, roasted malts and a hint of bourbon.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Jun 2015
at 21:14