Flying Buffalo Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout: Great Lakes Coffee (2017)
Griffin Claw Brewing Company in Birmingham, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.50
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2017 Coffee Notes
Farmer: Arthur & Francisca Chacon
Origin: Costa Rica
Region: Sabanilla de Alajuela
Farm: Finca Sabonilla
Altitude: 1450 MASL
Variety: Caturra, Catuai
Process: Perla Negra, Natural
Tasting Notes: Juicy/Blackberry/Rich
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Maybe coffee stouts are growing on me, maybe it's just damn good coffee in here. Medium light bodied, easy drinking upfront, mid and finish are packing espresso, dark chocolate, and bourbon with lingering espresso notes. Thanks FlandersNed !
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Poured from bottle from vertical in trade with Flanders light brown black with a tan head. Aroma is wonderful coffee, caramel, vanilla. Taste is soft, nice mouthfeel, abv is well hidden. Really nice. --- Beer merged from original tick of Flying Buffalo: Coffee on 21 Sep 2019 at 18:12 - Score: 8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Chalumeaux with a killer vertical, thanks buddy! 2017 vintage. Moderate coffee, bold bourbon. Flavor has nice long lasting bourbon throughout the sip. Slight warming after the sip. Body is on the full side. Nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle, 2017, 14%. Color: Very dark ruby, fast disappearing thin beige head. Aroma: Fruity fresh coffee beans and Bourbon. Taste: Boozy, roasted malt, balanced with Bourbon, notes of vanilla and fruity, sourish coffee. Notes of blackberry. Moderate to medium sweet and bitter. Full body, below average carbonation. Nice complexity, very well balanced. Very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
I Draught /I Reddish dark brown beer under a yellowish head with a green sheen. Weird nose of coffee and pine needles - from a Xmas tree at New Year. Alcohol. Very boozy flavour, alcohol dominated; again these dry pine needles & artificial snow from the tree. Buffalo grass? Vanilla emerging after short warming up. Full bodied, alcoholheat and -thinning, ending wry. Weird.
Yup, coffee. No wonder that Buffalo was flying, good shot of espresso in this. Creamy, rich, fairly sweet. Some chocolate in there, and a good dose of bourbon.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle - pours dark brown tan head - nose/taste of coffee, milk sugar, little green pepper, chocolate, bourbon and oak - medium body