High Stakes
Siren Craft Brew in Finchampstead, Berkshire, England 🏴
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
6.98
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An exceptional and ambitious chilli-chocolate-bourbon-honey-salted-caramel-imperial-milk dream. A blend of stout, wood and rich ingredients delivers an intriguing yet comforting, smokey and delectably sweet experience
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7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 5
Il naso viene catturato da sentori di sottobosco. L'olfatto viene stimolato in maniera molto elevata e la maniera in cui permane è considerevole. Il cappello di schiuma resiste poco. La grandezza delle bollicine è a grana fine. Il colore è nero come la pece. Il corpo è strutturato ma duttile. Il dolce è medio in buona armonia con l'amaro medio. La forza gustativa è molto elevata. La continuità gustativa è lunga e duratura. Le sensazioni boccali finali risultano di birra beverina. Il retrogusto è intenso. Sul tetto della bocca si attestano caratteristiche di caramello, miele, frutta secca, pane tostato, agrumi, arancia rossa, Bourbon, erbe aromatiche, frutta passita, whisky, vino rosso, vino Porto, sale, liquirizia, vaniglia, legno, torbato ed etilico. Alcol presente.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Apr 2026
at 17:40
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
375ml bottle at House of Hops, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Poured almost black in colour with little life. The aroma is roasty malt, super dry, oaky. The flavour is bitter and sweet, with a roasty malt, red berry fruits, dry, oaky, light boozy alcohol bitter palate. Full bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Sep 2024
at 16:14
6.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5
Stubby bottle from Siren online. Pours oily deep brown with a fast disappearing tan bubbles, fades to nothing. Aroma: solvent, oak bourbon barrel, red wine & port hints, dried fruits, spices, demerara, sour edge. Taste: moderate to heavy sweet, roast, various barrels, charr, caramel, molasses, dried fruits, cocoa, super boozy. Medium to full body with low carbonation. Very complex, much going on but they've tried to do too much, it's a muddled mess.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2024
at 23:14
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
375ml bottle @ monthly tasting, Chez Sophie, May 24. Thanks Mike for this. Pours pitch black with a deep tan head. Aroma of deep malt, bourbon and caramel. Thick, unctious feel with layered bourbon-soaked dark malt, smoky hints, perhaps a fruity red wine hint, distant honey sweetness, spiced caramel integration.. an entertaining, big boozy fella.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 May 2024
at 09:28
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Monday 27th May 2024, Shrewsbury Beer Share in Chez Sophie, five guys drinking beer and talking bollox. Last beer of the session for me, train calling. 375ml bottle from Mike. Black, slick body, tanned crown. Malty, with a lovely bourbon like flavour from start to finish. It's a sweet brew with a late chilli undertone, great beer to finish my session with.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 May 2024
at 08:44
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Stubby bottle pours a translucent cola black, fizzy beige head faded fast. Nose is huge with wood and booze and malt. Huge caramel and malt. Some smoke. Some cardboard. Huge. Flavor is more port and old barrel than anything. Caramel. Salt. Char. Full bodied, heavy sticky finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Dec 2023
at 02:29
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle sample at a tasting at a Yoav's place. Black. Lots of acetaldehyde, chocolate, wood, sweet and some sourish apple, a bit of smokiness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2023
at 16:48
8/10
Bottle at lakes... Dark black.. Thin tan lacing. Soft buggy chocolate Roast 3nose.. Dark sweet buggy chocolate Roast malts.. Dark chocolate roast malts.. Heavy buggy mslts
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2023
at 15:28
6/10
On tap at Taphouse. Black with a tiny off-white head. Aroma of toffee, chocolate and booze. Sweet roasted flavour with a sour, burned and hot spicy note. Plenty of alcohol
Tried
from Draft
on 06 May 2023
at 18:18
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
On tap at Taphouse - CPH, pours black with a small beige head. Aroma is rather over-the-top, with intense perfumey bourbon, light chili, and caramel. Flavour is very perfumey, with lots of paint thinner, cocoa, and booze. What the hell? This went wrong. Perfumey, boozy mess. Not good.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 May 2023
at 21:34