Dark Ritual
Sibeeria in Prague, Prague, Czechia 🇨🇿
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.46
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Brewing Imperial Stout is always a kind of ritual here - starting early in the morning with mountains of grain, stretching through painfully slow lautering process and endless boil ending late at night. After careful fermentation we lager it for months and when we feel it’s smooth enough, we add the finishing touch. We thought this one might work nicely with some hazelnuts supported with a dose of vanilla and cocoa. What we got is a robust 11% pitch-black brew tasting like fine pralines from the darkest possible chocolate. Bitter finish, no lactose, no cloying sweetness, just 10+ different malts and the occult art of brewing in perfect harmony.
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8.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 9
Texture 7
Overall 9
Can. Malty aroma and taste, roastyness, vanilla, cocoa, medium bitter, light sweet. Medium to full body, malty vanilla bitter sweet finish. Good.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Apr 2026
at 19:41
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can at Justičná Tasting, april 2026. Dark brown color with beige head. Aroma of vanilla, nuts, dark malt, chocolate, moderate roasty notes. Taste is very similar, alcohol level is very high, what decreases drinkability of this beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Apr 2026
at 19:31
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8
(Draft at Akkurat, Stockholm, 14 Nov 2025) Black colour with creamy, beige head. Malty, roasted nose with notes of chocolate, hazelnuts and milky coffee. Malty, roasted, slightly vinous taste with dark chocolate, hazelnuts, coffee, chocolate truffles and a balanced roasty bitterness in a a slightly boozy finish. Full body, with a certain sweetness. Rich, warming and fairly well balanced for its strength. Very nice.
Tried
from Draft
at
Akkurat
on 12 Feb 2026
at 21:24
8/10
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Nov 2025
at 16:27
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Black Colour with small beige head.Aroma is roasted and toasted with flavour of licorice and chocolate nice roasted and toasted with good flavours of vanilla and dark drid fruit smooth we'll balanced taste.
Tried
from Draft
at
Væskebalancen Bar & Bottleshop - Copenhagen
on 11 Aug 2025
at 15:03
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from De Baron Van Wolvega. Aroma is roasted malt with hazelnut, coffee, some vanilla, milk chocolate, fudge, cappuccino. Plenty of nutty notes throughout, which pleases me. Flavour is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Above medium body, not as full as I'd like. Otherwise very tasty.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Jan 2025
at 06:58
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can 0.5l, more than three years aged. Black, opaque. AROMA- roasted, liquor, dark chocolate, touch of vanilla. FLAVOR- moderately sweet, lightly bitter, liquor, pralines with creamy filling, dark chocolate, no recognizable hazelnuts. Fuller to full bodied.
Good.
Good.
Tried
from Can
from
Base Camp Pivní Galerie (Old location)
on 13 Jan 2025
at 23:31
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap @ Væskebalancen Bar, Aarhus. Black with a small beige head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, chocolate and vanilla. Flavor is very sweet and light bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish. Oily and soft. 150424
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Apr 2024
at 15:52
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draught @ Væskebalancen Bar, Aarhus. Pours black with a very small brown head. Aroma of roasted malt, caramel, dark chocolate, vanilla, hazelnuts. Flavor is sweet, light bitter, roast malt, caramel, dark chocolate, nuts, vanilla, alcohol. Medium to full body, average carbonation, light bitter finish with some warming alcohol. 150424
Tried
on 15 Apr 2024
at 15:31
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 February 2022. At Winter Belgian Beer Geek Gathering. Many thanks for hosting, Tim, and cheers to the whole crew!
Hazy black, thin, beige head. Aroma of hazelnut, chestnut, fondant, cashew, chocolate sauce, vanilla bean, toast. Taste has sweet date & prune in a toasty, hazelnutty, praliné-like malt profile with creamy notes. Earthy hoppy finish, quite toasty, nutty, still some fondant; warming brandy-like alcohol. Full body, oily texture, soft carbonation. All about the malts, less about the hazelnut actually.
Hazy black, thin, beige head. Aroma of hazelnut, chestnut, fondant, cashew, chocolate sauce, vanilla bean, toast. Taste has sweet date & prune in a toasty, hazelnutty, praliné-like malt profile with creamy notes. Earthy hoppy finish, quite toasty, nutty, still some fondant; warming brandy-like alcohol. Full body, oily texture, soft carbonation. All about the malts, less about the hazelnut actually.
Tried
on 26 Mar 2022
at 13:57