Sometimes You're A Nut
Lough Gill Brewery in Sligo, Sligo, Ireland 🇮🇪
Collab with: Alewife Brewing CompanyStout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Special
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Score
7.06
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Imperial Chocolate, Coconut, Almond Milk Stout. Brewed in collaboration with our Friends from Ale Wife Brewing Co NYC this is a big bold Milk Stout at 10% abv. For our love of an Almond Joy we added chocolate, coconut and almond to enhance the sweetness and give us a full bodied flavorful Pastry Stout.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Smell of coconut, chocolate. Dark brown colour, tiny tan head. Aroma of coconut, chocolate, almond, lactose, faint licorice. Very sweet. Thick texture. Soft carbon.
Tried
from Can
from
Alko (Turku Länsikeskus Citymarket)
on 11 Feb 2026
at 19:09
7.5/10
Tried
from Can
on 22 Nov 2025
at 02:00
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Can from Drankenhandel Leiden. Aroma is nutty indeed with chocolate, coconut, dark malt, vanilla, almond. Fairly sweet with a moderate bitterness. Above medium body, drinks below its 10% abv.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Feb 2025
at 23:47
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
1st May 2024
Panda thanks to Cloin. Semi opaque dark brown beer, decent bubbly tan head, but it's a transient thing. Light smooth malts, a light dark malt creamy sweetness. Light chocolate cake, a little chocolate candy. Mellow fruity bourbon. Dark chocolate Malteasers. A little dark chocolate bitterness. Fruity bourbon linger. Nice job. Light but rich.
Panda thanks to Cloin. Semi opaque dark brown beer, decent bubbly tan head, but it's a transient thing. Light smooth malts, a light dark malt creamy sweetness. Light chocolate cake, a little chocolate candy. Mellow fruity bourbon. Dark chocolate Malteasers. A little dark chocolate bitterness. Fruity bourbon linger. Nice job. Light but rich.
Tried
from Can
on 01 May 2024
at 20:32
7/10
Tried
on 25 Mar 2024
at 01:08
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can at home, from an online peddler whom I can't recall, 17/03/24. Token Irish beer on St Paddy's day! Lighter shade of black with a tan head that thins edgewards. Nose is cacao nibs, toffee, almond, chocolate praline, dark malts, light roast. Taste comprises candied fruit rinds, coconut shavings, light roast, almonds, chocolate, light spice, shades of dark chocolate Bounty Bar. Medium bodied with bite, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a light kiss of alcohol. Fun enough easy drinking Impy stout ... comes in well below the stated 10%.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Mar 2024
at 23:07
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Black with a medium sized foamy brown head. Boozy with strong coconut, cocoa and vanilla. Long finish. Moderately full bodied.
Tried
on 24 Nov 2023
at 16:11
3.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
--Sample, thanks fonefan! -- Black, small head. Aroma of boiled milk, caramel and coconut. Very sweet with perfumy almond flavouring, boiled milk, caramel, milk chocolate and saccharine. Finishes with aching sweetness and lingering coconut. There are degrees of hell. This is on the tolerable side of pastry stout. Given a choice of horse dung and this, I might opt for the latter.
Tried
on 06 Apr 2023
at 21:19
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sample (thanks fonefan!). Pitch black colour, small off-white head Aroma is nutty, some mint chocolate, mild herbal, almonds and coconut tones with vanilla and some alcohol sweetness too. Flavour is quite much following the pattern of the aroma, but at the same time shows the toast and mild wooden tones to it. Lovely balance and elements to it.
Tried
on 01 Apr 2023
at 13:08
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Can 440ml. @ home. 🏡❄☃️🇩🇰 💻👀
[ As Lough Gill / Alewife Sometimes You're A Nut ].
ABV: 10.0%. Clear dark red brown colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, dark malt, sweet malt, roasted - chocolate, coconut, almonds. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a long duration, sweet chocolate, coconut, dark malt, almons, sweet malt. Body is medium, texture is oily and sticky, carbonation is soft, finish feel is warming and light alcoholic. [20230225]
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Tried
from Can
on 25 Feb 2023
at 20:50