Ransuil - Long Eared Owl
Uiltje Brewing Co. in Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Brewed at/by: JopenStout - Imperial Regular Out of Production
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Score
7.57
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This long-eared owl is our core range Imperial/double stout. This stout is standard French oak aged. This is a rich and massive full bodied monster with notes of chocolate, ground coffee, anise and vanilla. It even has some smoky and peaty flavours to it and obviously very hoppy as we love it. Get warmed up by this uber complexed- Owl in a bottle. The beer is unfiltered and unpasteurized, and could definitely be stored away even longer to mature some more.
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8/10
--- Beer merged from original tick of Ransuil on 10 Nov 2015 at 12:42 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9. Original review text: Absolutely delicious imperial stout. Pitch black pour, light brown espresso head. Milk chocolate and dark chocolate in the nose, together with some coffee, molasses and caramel. Tastes like milk chocolate and cocoa and a bit of barrel of some kind. I can’t remember exactly, I am writing from memory, but boy, is this beer tasty!
Tried
on 09 Sep 2016
at 21:25
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Head nearly gone, black beer. Lactic, but also stoutacidity, whisky, smoked, nearly Islay-like. Sweet-ish, coffee cream, Irish coffee or Bailey’s (with a dash of coffee). Very thick, rich bodied, velvety texture. Nice - and strangely enough, it gives the impression of being stronger than the 16:9!
Tried
on 01 Aug 2016
at 03:58
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Maakun, many thanks! Pours dark brown with beige head. Aroma of dark chocolate, caramel, some booze, leather and dark fruits. Taste is dark chocolate, roasted malt, very light coffee, liqourice and leather. Short, slightly bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jul 2016
at 15:16
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle - Dark chocolate and cocoa notes with a touch of toffee. Jet dark brown with a light brown head. Toffee and cocoa with a long finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2016
at 22:31
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Brewery Creek, Vancouver
Dark brown color. Aroma of dark caramel, a hint of chocolate, light vanilla. Smooth, lean, with mild residual sweetness; the flavor is based on dark caramel, no roasted malt, no chocolate flavor, with some vanilla and macadamia nuts, a bit boozy in the final.
Nice, simple among Imperial Stouts.
Dark brown color. Aroma of dark caramel, a hint of chocolate, light vanilla. Smooth, lean, with mild residual sweetness; the flavor is based on dark caramel, no roasted malt, no chocolate flavor, with some vanilla and macadamia nuts, a bit boozy in the final.
Nice, simple among Imperial Stouts.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2016
at 22:28
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330mL bottle, pours a reddish dark brown / black with a small beige head. Aroma brings out lots of sherry oxidation and dark fruits. Flavour is along the same lines, with lots of dark fruits, a little caramel and sherry oxidation. A touch old, but it's still very pleasant. Super fruity. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2016
at 22:24
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Black color with an off-white head, short to medium duration. Aroma has light coffee notes, licorice and some wooden notes. Flavor is slightly bittery, some roasted malts, light coffee. Light on palate with slightly bitterness.
Tried
on 21 May 2016
at 17:57
8.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
dark brown colour, one inch, creamy, stable beige head; aroma of smoked wood, ash, charcoal, tobacco, coffee amd liqueur notes; taste is also smokey and very similar to the aroma; very unique imperial stout
Tried
on 21 May 2016
at 15:33
Tried
on 18 Mar 2016
at 20:43
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 8
Bottle at Billie’s Bier Kafétaria. Pale yellowish beige, stable, lacing head over a near black beer with chestnut brown edges. Rather atypical aroma for an imperial stout (hence the qualification "double" on the label, I assume): strong shoe polish-like phenols, dusty old cocoa powder, pipe tobacco, charcoal, iron, vanilla beans, wet wood, cigar ashes. Softly sourish and umami onset with some candied fig-like sweetness, soft carbo, smooth oily mouthfeel less thick or viscous than expected, caramelly malt sweetishness, very toasted, a bit grainy, roasted with peppery hops in the finish as well as a strong, dry oak effect and warming, whisky-like alcohol. It took me a while to get used to this because it is different from your average RIS, but I sure enjoyed it in the end.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jan 2016
at 08:50