Brewer's Reserve: Peruvian Morning
(has 4 batches)
Central Waters Brewing Co. in Amherst, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Series|
Score
7.62
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A Bourbon Barrel aged Imperial Stout made with freshly roasted Emy J's Coffee. This beer is as complex as it gets. Flavors of vanilla, tannins, and coffee meld together to create a flavor as deep as the ravines of the Peruvian Andes!
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 cl bottle, courtesy of CaptainCougar. Pours cloudy dark brown with a minor redish glare with a small tan head. Solid coffee, roasted malt and dark chocolate. Mild cherry fruity note. Roasted chocolate malty, dark chocolate note, mild vanilla note. Lingering coffeeish note. Lingering coffee, vanilla and light mild fruity lingering finish. Nice one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Aug 2009
at 13:01
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle 35,5 cl. Courtesy of CaptainCougar. Clear black with a tint of red and a rough beige head. Aroma of had roasted malt and a vague tartness, vague oaky edge. Medium body, hard roasted malts and oaky notes. Some vanilla also. Malt bitter finish with an underlying tartness. 300809
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Aug 2009
at 12:31
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Courtesy of Dan. Pours thick black with beige/mocha head. Aroma is just another CW hit. Bourbon comes alive and fills the nose with barrel goodness. Coffee is present adding a great dimension to the aroma. Flavor, malty with strong coffee presence. Found the bourbon to be sub par to some other CW bourbon beers. Hints of caramel malts, light bitter chocolate and a warming bourbon mouthfeel, lots of coffee roast on the palate.
Tried
on 28 Aug 2009
at 15:18
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Beer #38 of 42 at GTMW, 8-8-09. The server said this was a barrel-aged version. I’ll need to check it out. Very nice stout appearance. Very apparent coffee smell, as well as an alcohol and bourbon smell. I need to sit down to taste this. Nice sharp coffee taste predominates over any alcohol. I’m clearly not in a condition to review many more beers, but this one is well worth having discovered.
Tried
on 25 Aug 2009
at 01:16
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12oz bottle courtesy of CaptainCougar. Thanks! Opaque brown-black color, thick tan head. Roasty chocolate aroma. The moderate ABV really helps this one to shine in my opinion. Smooth and watery mouthfeel in some respects, but lots of flavor. Mild coffee and vanilla notes. The bourbon isn’t hyper-pronounced, but rather melds in perfectly with the other flavors. Really quite mellow and well done, this is a great Stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2009
at 00:58
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dark brown colour. Thick head. Rich coffee nose with dark choclate. Fairly heavy with both vanilla bean and coffee bean. Sweetish in the finish veers this towards vanilla latte territory and that’s not going to work for me. The underlying quality of the ingredients and production is evident but the profile of the beer is simply not to my taste.
Tried
on 08 May 2009
at 13:05
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours a turbid dark brown - thin wisp of lace - aroma of intensely strong coffee, moderate bourbon, vanilla beans, a touch of coconut/toasted oak - the flavor has an initial sharp bitterness from the coffee, followed by spicy alcohol - the oak and bourbon don’t manifest until the finish, but they come on strong - alcohol gets astringent as it warms - good, but somewhat over-rated (like a lot of other CW beers).
Tried
on 18 Apr 2009
at 20:35
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Bottle thanks to pepsican. Pours with a large, creamy tan head over an ultra dark brown body. Aroma is strong with coffee, chocolate, tons upon tons of spicy roast, soil, cocoa dust, vanilla, oak, leather, hazelnut liqueur and something else I can’t read from my notes. Taste is coffee, vanilla and hazelnut creamer. A bit salty in the finish. Not a lot of residual sugars, but it works well. Mouthcoating and a bit syrupy, light carbonation. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2009
at 12:29
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Courtesy of Gillard. Pours dark brown with amber edges and mocha head. The aroma is coffee with a backbone of chili peppers, chocolate, molasses and mild burnt malts. The taste is smooth goodness spiking first with a pulse of chili peppers and then quickly moving into chocolate, molasses as well as roasty to burnt malts. This is smooth, rich and deliciously good.
Tried
on 03 Apr 2009
at 22:41