Twenty Five (XXV)
Central Waters Brewing Co. in Amherst, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Series|
Score
7.55
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Join us in a celebration twenty five years in the making with this carefully blended bourbon barrel aged stout. Dark, rich, and sophisticated, Twenty Five represents our commitment to barrel aged excellence. Toast with us on our silver anniversary!
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7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours black, no head. Scent is a bit soy, roasty, loads of bourbon. Taste is full, roasty, barrel. Hot, bit soy. Very intense. lovely, but a bit too hot for sure.
Tried
on 11 Apr 2025
at 16:56
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
RBESG 2023, Zagreb Grand Tasting. Thanks! Dark. Alcoholic, liquorice, oaky, charred wood. Roasty flavour, liquorice, alcohol, dried fruit and chocolate. Full body, strong, warming and smooth
Tried
on 31 Dec 2023
at 14:54
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 9
Bomber shared by Joen. Many thanks! Opaque pitch black color, virtually no head. Aroma is malts, bourbon, lightly raisins. Flavor is malts, dark malts, raisins, bourbon, vanilla. Delicious beer. Very well balanced. It just doesn't need to be more than this. Keep it (rather) simple.
Tried
on 31 Dec 2023
at 14:54
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle, 650 ml at RBESG 2023. Black with beige head. Chocolate, cocoa, vanilla, some bourbon. Touch of fruit. Some barrel. Sweetish with some bitter finish. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2023
at 10:48
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled from the tap at Lucille’s. Pours near black with a chocolate brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has strong roasted malts and barrel with a bitter dark grain note underlying. Flavor has bitter dark grains and roasted malts with some chocolate and barrel in the finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Aug 2023
at 15:10
8/10
Dark black body medium foamy brown head. Roast chocolate aroma. Roast chocolate ashy flavor. Full body moderately low carbonation. 8/5/8/4/16 4.1
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Aug 2023
at 21:38
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Zagreb summer gathering. Pretty close to black color, small brown head. Aroma of nutty chocolate. Taste has sweet dark chocolate, dark fruit, booze. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jul 2023
at 11:21
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottled at the RBESG 23 grand tasting, final beer of the tasting! Blackish body, light tan head. Slightly oxidized-seeming chocolate and brown sugar aroma. Soft, light taste, coconut, chocolate and carob, quite soft, dried peach too, fair bit of alcohol too. Not bad!
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2023
at 19:16
7/10
LCI. Roast, alcohol, vanilla, bourbon
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jul 2023
at 09:57
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
--Bottled at RBESG Grand Tasting 2023. -- Black, small beige head. Aroma of chocolate sauce and bourbon. Very sweet with full body and dense, rounded mouthfeel. Caramel, bourbon and milk chocolate. Warming finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jul 2023
at 19:51