Dog L
BrewDog in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 🏴
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.45
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The 12th edition in our Dog series. An Imperial stout aged in cognac and maple syrup barrels,sitting at 10.1 %. Full coffee, dark chocolate and nutty flavours, as well as vanilla, caramel and rich orange flavours from the cask.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
5th August 2026
Near opaque dark brown beer, a good and persistent bubbly tan head. Airy palate, a very mild dryness, decent superfine carbonation on the back end. Airy dark malts, a little dark malt cream. Touches of chocolate and coffee but, they are very much second fiddle to the maple barrel. The maple is rich, fruity and a tad savoury and, thankfully swerves the cloying sweetness it sometimes brings. The Cognac barrel is, unfortunately, also a lesser partner. It does deliver that smooth cognac unsweet caramel ripe fruit thing on the back end but, for me needed a lot more presence to balance out the maple. A relatively light abv suggests well used barrels or a shorter time spent in them. Was this one of the last Dog beers? It's good but perhaps a portent that things were not as good as they should be
Near opaque dark brown beer, a good and persistent bubbly tan head. Airy palate, a very mild dryness, decent superfine carbonation on the back end. Airy dark malts, a little dark malt cream. Touches of chocolate and coffee but, they are very much second fiddle to the maple barrel. The maple is rich, fruity and a tad savoury and, thankfully swerves the cloying sweetness it sometimes brings. The Cognac barrel is, unfortunately, also a lesser partner. It does deliver that smooth cognac unsweet caramel ripe fruit thing on the back end but, for me needed a lot more presence to balance out the maple. A relatively light abv suggests well used barrels or a shorter time spent in them. Was this one of the last Dog beers? It's good but perhaps a portent that things were not as good as they should be
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2026
at 20:09
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Brewdog Seven Dials. Chocolate orange, maple & apricot aromas. Nowhere near an imperial stout in the taste, has a 'dipper' feel. Certainly a Cognac backnote but no discernable stout notes, odd but nevertheless a tasty brew.
Tried
from Bottle
at
BrewDog Seven Dials
on 28 Jun 2025
at 14:22
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Аромат сразу весьма кофейный и очень алкогольный, цвет черный как гуталин, пены нету конечно, легкая маслянистость. Вкус очень алкогольный, прямо с большим перебором, его вообще не пытались скрыть. За ним есть приятный шоколад с ликером, немного бочки и сладость, намеки на кофе. На финише даже охложденное оно все равно проявляет алкашку. Норм конечно, но надо было что то со спиртом делать.
Tried
on 07 Feb 2025
at 05:56
8/10
Tried
on 26 Apr 2024
at 20:55
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled 330ml. -at Goblet Zagreb. Black coloured, small pale beige head, maple syrup and light wood in the nose. Roasted malt, maple, wood, caramel and earthy with nutty alcoholic finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Nov 2023
at 21:34
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Draught at BrewDog Ealing, shared with Finn. Bubbles on the surface of a jet black body, spotty lacing. Inviting aromas of chocolate-caramel, mid-sweet and smoothly roasted. Rich taste character, moments of liquorice, vanilla chocolate, caramel, and biscuit. Long-lived ending with chocolate-caramel, lightly roasted. Excellent sipper. (Ealing, London 26.09.2023).
Tried
on 06 Oct 2023
at 18:07
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Delt med Rune på BrewDog Ealing. Svart. Middels høyt lysebrunt skum som daler sakte. Aroma av konjakk & sirup. Oljeaktig munnfølelse. Smaken sammensatt. Vanilje. Karamell. Kokos. Nøtter i avslutninga. Perfekt dessert.
Tried
on 26 Sep 2023
at 17:40
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Keg at BDCW - London. Pours clear, deep brown with a small, foamy beige head. Medium sweet flavour, quite thick, lots of bitter ash, charred malts, sludgey dark malts, earth. Full bodied, super chewy, soft. Warming finish, bittersweet, dense dark malts, drying ashy notes, hard roast. Not bad.
Tried
on 21 Sep 2023
at 11:51
7/10
Tried
on 22 Jul 2023
at 17:11
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap. Pours black with short tan head. Aromas of dark powdery chocolate, vanilla and roasted malts Flavors of rich chocolate cake, vanilla, maple syrup and oily roasted malts. Good.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Jul 2023
at 16:08