BourbRum Plead the 5th
(has 1 batch)
Dark Horse Brewing Co. in Marshall, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.62
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Plead the 5th Imperial Stout aged in Bourbon & Rum barrels.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
2016 bottle shared at Lucky Bamboo share. Thanks Joe! Pours a deep brown to black with a tiny beige head that dissipates. Deep chocolate malt and brownie aromas with cacao nib, dark fruit, oak and light vanilla notes. A bit oxidized unfortunately at this point. Lowish carbonation on the palate with more of the same and an oxidized note that runs though. Lingering chocolate brownie on the finish with bourbon. Would have liked to try fresh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Feb 2019
at 18:29
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
12 ounce bottle into snifter; 2015 vintage bottling. Pours dense pitch black color with a 1 finger dense dark brown head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, molasses, toffee, dark bread, raisin, plum, fig, vanilla, bourbon, toasted oak, cinnamon, nutmeg, spiced rum, light smoke, and roast/oaky earthiness. Damn nice aromas with greart balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt and bourbon/rum barrel notes; with great strength. Taste of big dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, molasses, toffee, dark bread, raisin, plum, fig, vanilla, bourbon, toasted oak, cinnamon, nutmeg, spiced rum, light smoke, and roast/oaky earthiness. Light-moderate roast bitterness and bourbon/rum/oak spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, molasses, toffee, dark bread, dark fruit, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, bourbon, rum, and roast/oaky earthiness on the finish for a while. Incredible complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and bourbon/rum barrel flavors; with a great roasted bitter/sweet and rum/bourbon spiciness balance, with zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Light dryness from roast bitter/oak spiciness as well. Light-medium carbonation and fairly full bodied; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/silky, and fairly sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a light warmth lingering after the finish. Overall this is a fantastic Barrel aged imperial stout! All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and bourbon/rum barrel flavors; and very smooth and easy to sip on for the ABV. The rum barrel adds some nice unique fruity/spicy complexity; while still having a nice balance with the regular bourbon barrel notes. A highly enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 May 2016
at 20:47
7.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle, 2014 vintage, thanks to fishmich! Pours opaque black, small tan head, nice residual and lacing. Aroma is rummy, cocoa, cola, more rum. Flavor is medium plus sweet, light plus bitter, astringent, rummy, oak, cola, cocoa, vanilla. Full body, creamy mouthfeel, a bit hot.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Apr 2016
at 01:22
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
12oz bottle pours out dark brown almost black topped with a small tan head. nose is the odd double barrel notes some sour notes a little vanilla and lots of the bourbon and rum. Taste is more of the rum bourbon vanilla lots of booze.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jan 2016
at 18:05
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle. Thanks hackobock! Opaque black liquid with firm, medium tan head. Aroma of chocolate, cinnamon, rum, raw sugar, raisins, toffee, coffee, licorice and cardamom. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with notes of chocolate, cinnamon, cardamom, vanilla, wood and rum. Full bodied with low to medium carbonation. Really different from the bourbon variant, good though! Much spicier. The cardamom aroma reminds me of the cardamom buns my grandma baked when I was a child.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Aug 2015
at 14:21
8.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle thanks to Gibson. Pours a very dark brown with small tan head that diminishes to nothing. The aroma is strong rum, dark chocolate, wood. Slick mouthfeel with strong booze, sweetness from the rum, light dryness, dark chocolate, chewy, very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2015
at 15:18
9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 10
Tap . Pours black , small grey head . Smell is chocolate , rhu , dark malts . Taste is sweet, intense dark malts and very chocolatty . Rhum , wood , touches of bourbon . Very complex . Silky mouthfeel and low carbonation , Awesome beer
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Feb 2015
at 08:39
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
33cl bottle courtesy of and shared with Sarro and Omgrich. Thanks Kyle for hauling this one to Belgium! Couleur brune foncée, col fin moka laissant un filament huileux doré ausr le verre. Arôme est enivrant avec un premier rappel de bubble-gum qui avec plus d’attention offre la complexité du rhum qui semble être un peu au dessus du Bourbon. Note une petite note épicée avec de belles notes maltées. Palais est également complexe avec pas mal de rhum qui s’intègre bien à une malté qui offre une bonne dose de chocolaté, léger retrait malté. Le Bourbon n’est pas en reste et apporte plus la douceur de fin de bouche sur de fines notes vanillées alors que le rhum penche vers l’épicé. Le tout reste imposant avec ses 12%.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2014
at 08:04