La Negra
La Cumbre Brewing Company in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating|
Score
7.74
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Big, black, and beautiful. La Negra is an oak-aged Russian Imperial Stout, brewed with our British Pale malt, and an enormous amount of roasted malts. A 5 hour boil lends a big burnt sugar and raisin character while the intense bitterness gives the beer an incredible dark chocolate finish. Needless to say, the mouthfeel is what you would expect from one of the biggest beers we’ve brewed.
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8.9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 9
Bomber, 2024 vintage. Roasted malt aroma with notes of chocolate, molasses, dark fruit, vanilla, oak and bourbon. Pours deep brown with a thin mocha brown head that has some retention and thin ring of lacing. Starts with rich roasted malt, molasses, chocolate and oak flavors as well as having a rich, full body and slick, viscous mouthfeel. Finishes impeccably smooth with dark fruit, vanilla and bourbon flavors as well as nice warming booze at the very end. Wonderful.
Tried
from Bottle
from
J&K Liquor
on 04 Apr 2026
at 03:09
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Stefan: pours black with almost no head. No idea how olde this is. Aroma is barrel, anise, dark chocolate, vanilla. Taste is somewhat sweet, lightly boozy, some bitterness. Nice aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2026
at 01:37
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle many thanks to Stefan this is delicious! Dark brown black pour and some beige head. Nose is delicious chocolate, anise, some fruit. Tastes of barrel, toasted malt, ash, anise, raisins, chocolate. Great mouthfeel.
Tried
on 28 Aug 2025
at 23:21
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Undated bomber shared by Jow on 8/28/25.
Clear, dark. Tan bubbles immediately to thin ring.
Big oaky notes next to fudge, mild licorice and moderate but not overdone roast. No alcohol, no excess sugar. Tobacco, molasses, nice and intense.
Now this is a RIS that I can get behind. Roast and hop are certainly present, but tempered. Body is chewier and thicker than traditional. Tons of fun complexity with more molasses and tobacco. Great depth and attenuation. No alcohol noted.
Clear, dark. Tan bubbles immediately to thin ring.
Big oaky notes next to fudge, mild licorice and moderate but not overdone roast. No alcohol, no excess sugar. Tobacco, molasses, nice and intense.
Now this is a RIS that I can get behind. Roast and hop are certainly present, but tempered. Body is chewier and thicker than traditional. Tons of fun complexity with more molasses and tobacco. Great depth and attenuation. No alcohol noted.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Aug 2025
at 23:09
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
bomber bottle. pours an opaque black color with a small khaki colored head that soon dissipates t a fine ring. T he aroma is strong with whiskey barrel, anise and chocolates. Taste, like the aroma, has whiskey barrel in the forefront; followed by licorice, baking chocolates and bitter walnuts. The palate is full and viscous with soft carbonation. Finishes long and semi-sweet with lingering bitter black licorice. Overall: decent RIS--paired superbly with some English cheddar.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2025
at 18:01
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Rich, black, just a thin head. Lots of liquorice, molasses on the nose. Super rich, powerful burnt sugars, lots of bitterness, robust bourbon in the finish, too. Excellent.
Tried
on 27 Dec 2023
at 04:33
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
From a bomber enjoyed in Steamboat Springs. Pours black with a tan head. Aromas of chocolate and toffee. Flavors are moderately bitter roast with some barrel notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Feb 2023
at 04:07
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
I have a 22 oz bottle of La Negra that was bought at Susan's Fine Wines in Santa Fe last year. La Cumbre, easily my favorite NM brewery, offers up an imperial stout, I'm on top of it. Tonight's glass, a tulip from Cowtown, is in place. The pour is a solidly black liquid and no head that I can see. And the scent is attractive with dark plums and chocolate. The taste, geez, is really good. Black raisins, dark chocolate, the barest hint of roast, caramel, malt, bourbon I assume, black bread and jam. Some decent sweetness offset by a nice finishing bitterness. La Cumbre, well done again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jan 2023
at 01:43
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Refrigerated black bomber poured into a glass. Black with medium light brown head. Aroma is roasted malt, medium body, well carbonated, and some lacing. Taste is roasted malt, oak, cocoa, and dryer finish.
Tried
on 02 Sep 2019
at 00:32
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at WTF V. Pours black with medium tan head leaving spotty lacing. The aroma is roast, wood, char, smoke, cocoa. Medium body, dark chocolate, roasted malt, wood, char, boozy finish, very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jul 2017
at 14:12