Most Most Premium Russian Imperial Stout - Scotch Barrel Aged
Gigantic Brewing in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.45
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 9
Overall 8
(Bottle) 2024 edition, clear, bright, very dark brown color with a small brown head; aroma of toffee, milk chocolate; balanced flavour with a long, light bitter finish, creamy palate
Tried
from Bottle
at
Gigantic Brewing Robot Room at Rocket Empire Machine
on 04 Jan 2025
at 05:31
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Brown bottle, 500 ml, 2022 vintage, beer #160, exchanged with Dustin Sepkowski (thank you! ) on 11 May 2023, savoured on 5 September 2023; eye: black, opaque, no effervescence, tiny ring of brown head, no lacing; nose: malt, aniseed, peat, chocolate, light alcohol, vanilla; mouth: malt, aniseed, peat, chocolate, light alcohol, vanilla, scotch, finale in aniseed with presence of scotch-aniseed, lightly below average carbonation, lightly sweet, lightly alcoholic texture; in short: fine FRANÇAIS
Bouteille brune, 500 ml, millésime 2022, bière #160, échange avec Dustin Sepkowski (thank you!) le 11 mai 2023, savourée le 5 septembre 2023; œil : noire, opaque, pas d’effervescence, minuscule anneau de mousse brune, pas de dentelle; nez : malt, anis, tourbe, chocolat, léger alcool, vanille; bouche : malt, anis, tourbe, chocolat, léger alcool, vanille, scotch, finale en anis avec présence de scotch-anis, carbonatation légèrement sous la moyenne, légèrement sucrée, texture légèrement alcoolique; en résumé : bien
Bouteille brune, 500 ml, millésime 2022, bière #160, échange avec Dustin Sepkowski (thank you!) le 11 mai 2023, savourée le 5 septembre 2023; œil : noire, opaque, pas d’effervescence, minuscule anneau de mousse brune, pas de dentelle; nez : malt, anis, tourbe, chocolat, léger alcool, vanille; bouche : malt, anis, tourbe, chocolat, léger alcool, vanille, scotch, finale en anis avec présence de scotch-anis, carbonatation légèrement sous la moyenne, légèrement sucrée, texture légèrement alcoolique; en résumé : bien
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2023
at 21:18
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle. 2022. Black beer with a brown head. Smoke and caramel aroma with light chocolate. Whiskey and light smoke flavor with caramel and dried fruit. Medium bodied. Whiskey and caramel linger with light smoke, light chocolate, and dried fruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jul 2023
at 18:19
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Panda 🐼 at home big thanks to Wingman. A oily dark black brown halo of tan head. Aroma is semi sweet, waxy, smoke, tar, burnt dark sugars. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, burnt malt, smokey, burnt toffee. Palate is semi sweet, oily, bacon frazzel. mellow carbonation, oily,
Tried
on 04 Mar 2023
at 00:43
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle on 712 heading South, thanks to the Wingman, 26/02/23. Black with a decent tan head that veers edgewards. Nose is roast malts, light smoke, dried fruits, raisins, charr, dark chocolate, scotch barrel. Taste comprises chocolate, molasses, whisky, charr, spice, toffee, fruit cake mix. Full bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced spike of alcohol. Solid BA impy ... well joined up and easy sipping.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2023
at 19:10
7/10
Tried
on 26 Feb 2023
at 19:04
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 4
2020 bottle. Not sure if it’s age or the recipe, but this pint has taken on loads of prune and vinous notes, with underlying veins of chocolate and anise. Scotch-barrel aging seems to have faded; mostly what we’re getting is fresh and dried fruit. One guy thought it was a really old Belgian quad. I guess three years was too long in the cellar.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Feb 2023
at 04:51
8/10
Tried
on 02 Dec 2022
at 17:46
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is chocolate, vanilla, woody, caramel, taste is similar, cocoa powder, chewy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Dec 2022
at 17:46
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle 2022 version. Pours a very dark brown hue with a medium to small brown head. A big nose, the barrel is huge. Sweet base, big hot scotch, licorice, vanilla. Really nice barrel treatment.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Nov 2022
at 06:18