WineyBeest (2021)
(Batch of WineyBeest)
Wild Beer Co in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England 🏴
Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.34
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This years iteration of Wineybeest presents a big chocolate character, balanced by Californian Cabernet Sauvignon acidity.
Wineybeest has a long, rich and elegant imperial stout character. Taking the brash and bold Wildebeest stout and maturing it in our wine barrels, has produced a pronounced red berry acidity and jammy notes, adding layers of complexity to the finished beer making it stand out from the crowd.
Wineybeest has a long, rich and elegant imperial stout character. Taking the brash and bold Wildebeest stout and maturing it in our wine barrels, has produced a pronounced red berry acidity and jammy notes, adding layers of complexity to the finished beer making it stand out from the crowd.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750ml bottle - Pours deep dark brown, almost black with a good sized frothy tan head. Aroma is red wine, red berries, toffee and light oak. A winey, fruity taste, vinous, red berries, red grape, oak and roasted malt flavours with a light drying red wine and sour finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2023
at 18:15
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 8
-1 pt for the ridiculous, irritating wax. Pours viscously to pink-shot dark cream head over red-shot dark brown beer. Chocolate a mile out, then dark red berries, red winegrapes and roast. Sour-roast-meaty-red wine. Chocolate, as in pralines with red berry ganache. Alcohol obvious. Rich, voluptuous, good carbonation, chewy and full-bodied, alcoholheat. Surprising, rewarding beer on the very edge of fruitsour and stout - yet fully balanced. Impressive.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Billie’s Bottle Shop
on 17 Dec 2023
at 09:45
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle on 712 to Edinburgh, thanks to Leigh, 24/02/23. Extremely dark mahogany brown with a decent beige cap. Nose is funky red berry, wine barrel, damp oak, toffee. Taste comprises funk, red wine barrel, damp oak, vinous, red berry must. Full bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced kiss of alcohol. Tidy BA impy sour blend.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Feb 2023
at 12:31
5.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Unclear dark head with almost no head Ok intensity in the aroma A bit sweet and more or less no carbonation Chocolate, dark malt, fruity and vinous flavor [On tap at Neptune Pub in Sarpsborg, Norway]
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Sep 2022
at 09:05
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Barrel-aged imperial stout by Wild Beer, aged in Cabernet Sauvignon barrels and apparently a blend of a one year old batch with a one and a half year old batch. From tap at Dok in Ghent. Yellowish beige, finely moussy, shred-lacing head opening and dissipating gradually over a very dark chocolate brown beer, as good as black, but still with hazy wine red glow. Aroma of coffee grounds, old but good red wine, blackberry juice, lots of moist oak wood, calvados, grape skin, dark chocolate bars, elderberry jam, wine must, toasted walnuts, wet leather, damp dark earth. Tart onset with fruity sweetness and juiciness effects, clear blue grape, impressions of blackberry, blueberry and fresh fig, quite lively carbonated with full, even somewhat syrupy body, but the sourness maintains a certain ‘souplesse’ and drinkability. Deep dark-chocolatey, toasted-walnutty and brown-bready malt body, quickly developing both a firm roasted coffee-like bitterness and a warming, tart, fruity red wine effect, coupled with tannic woodiness; rich and long, complex finish, where all these elements match each other perfectly, further adorned with lingering dark fruit juiciness and earthy hoppy and yeasty aspects. The alcohol warms in an eventually tawny port-like way. Full, complex, fruity sour stout of sorts, profoundly structured in the right way – this is a masterpiece in my book, and one of the best Wild Beer brews I ever encountered. Ambitious alright, but a gastronomical ‘tour de force’ for me.
Tried
on 02 Jun 2022
at 14:40
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
1/VI/22 - on tap @ DOK Brewing (Gent), BB: n/a (2022-622)
Clear dark brown to black beer, small creamy beige head, stable, non adhesive. Aroma: lovely, lots of dried fruits, good roast, a bit oxidized, some caramel, vanilla touch. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: nice, lots of wood, caramel notes, bitter, a soft acidity, very oxidized, dried fruits, very nice! Aftertaste: oxidized, lots of red wine, tannins, sweet, some caramel, dried fruits, very nice, bitter, wood notes, floral, some lavender, spicy finish.
Clear dark brown to black beer, small creamy beige head, stable, non adhesive. Aroma: lovely, lots of dried fruits, good roast, a bit oxidized, some caramel, vanilla touch. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: nice, lots of wood, caramel notes, bitter, a soft acidity, very oxidized, dried fruits, very nice! Aftertaste: oxidized, lots of red wine, tannins, sweet, some caramel, dried fruits, very nice, bitter, wood notes, floral, some lavender, spicy finish.
Tried
from Draft
at
Dok Brewing Company
on 01 Jun 2022
at 20:30
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Appearance: Very dark brown, near black. Small dark tan head. Aroma: Red wine, some dark malt. Taste: Red wine, grapes, a bit of dark malt. Overshadowed by the red wine flavours, though. Bought: Bierrevier, 100 ml tap, CHF 4.75 Info: 23/4-2022
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Apr 2022
at 20:09
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Dark brown color with high creamy beige head. Aroma: dominated by sweet red berries character, acidity of wine, chcolate and dried fruit. Taste: incredibly complex, acidity and red berries later make place for chocolate and sweetness od dried figs and dates. Full body, low carbonation, moderate bitterness. Excellent, tasty, complex, balanced.
Tried
on 26 Jan 2022
at 17:35