Nikita
Rising Tide Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.30
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Nikita began its life as Sputnik 2, the second beer in our Sputnik Brewer’s Series. It is a Rye Russian Imperial Stout brewed by our brewer, Brady Alden. Nikita is a fairly traditional imperial stout brewed with roasted barley, midnight wheat, and 20% local rye, hopped with Magnum, Cascade, and Mount Hood.
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tfontana (7150) reviewed Nikita from Rising Tide Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can (12/2/22) pour from The Beer Store, Salem. An opaque dark brown with thin cap of beige head fading to ring. Aroma is strong roasted malt, chocolate, rye, hint of cinnamon. Taste is strong roasted malt, toffee, ashy on the back half. Smooth, frothy texture, average-to-lively carbonation and crisp, dry finish with lingering bitterness. Not getting bourbon or barrel. A lot of tiny flaws.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours black into a snifter. Mocha head with good retention recedes leaving spidery sheets. Vanilla, bourbon and rye aromas. Thick with hot pumpernickel toast, chocolate, bourbon and rye front to back. Slick, chocolate espresso finish. Turns to blackened toast and charred coffee grounds as it warms.
Jow (8011) reviewed Nikita from Rising Tide Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Can at home watching Bruins make nhl history. Dark black pour. Nose is Bourbons and ash. Tastes of spicy rye, bourbon, chocolate, campfire ash, pumpernickel. Chewy and slick.
Quick3Beers (3147) reviewed Nikita from Rising Tide Brewing Company 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours a dark near-black brown from a can, light colored head. Coffee and faint cola in the nose, no bourbony notes. Flavor starts off rather sweet, malty, ends with long bitterness, perhaps some faint rye. Pretty good beer.
fonefan (84235) reviewed Nikita from Rising Tide Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Cask (gravity) @ #RHBCF2018 🧙🍻🇬🇧 [ The 11th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival (The 43th. Nottingham CAMRA Beer and Cider Festival) ], The Motorpoint Arena, Bolero Square, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 1LA.
[ As Rising Tide Nikita ].
ABV: 9.8%. Cloudy dark black colour with a small to average, creamy - frothy and open, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, dark malt, wood, licorice, alcohol - bourbon - barrel. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, licorice, dark malt, sweet malt, chocolate, roasted, barrel - bourbon. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat, finish feel is warming and light alcoholic. [20181017]
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saxo (29673) reviewed Nikita from Rising Tide Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask @ Nottingham Beer Festival. Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are coconut, bourbon, fruits, roast malt, chocolate, hops and has a sweet bourbon finish.
Rasmus40 (36891) reviewed Nikita from Rising Tide Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask @ Nottingham Beer and Cider Festival. Black with a light brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, chocolate and heavy bourbon. Flavor is very sweet and rather bitter. Sweet and rather bitter finish with lots of warming alcohol. Oily. 191018
Mr_Pink_152 (17035) reviewed Nikita from Rising Tide Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Tried st the Nottingham beer festival 2018. Black colour with an off white head. Aroma has bourbon, chocolate and treacle. Taste light sweet tomid bitter. Full body.
Grumbo (24130) reviewed Nikita from Rising Tide Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
17/10/2018. Cask at the Robin Hood Beer & Cider Festival 2018, Nottingham. Pours almost black with a small bubbly beige head. Aroma of chocolate, whiskey, malt, wood and light coffee. Medium plus sweetness and moderate roasted bitterness. Full bodied, slick texture, soft carbonation. Very nice.
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Nikita from Rising Tide Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
375mL cork and cage bottled Feb 2017, drunk 6/16/18.
Opaque ebony with a medium-sized, tan head that sits at very light cover.
Very vinous, wow! Earth, licorice, ash and deep subtle char are there as well. Very English, nice! Zero sweet characteristics notable in the nose, not even any caramel to speak of. Hop it's not too dry and thin/under-malted...No alcohol or flaw. Dark fruits linger on nicely.
First sip and...it's not too dry! Very bitter, roasted barley-heavy with long, dry, toffee notes and just the right amount of sweetness (not a lot). Vanilla and vinous notes mix with earth, pepper and licorice. Caramel mixes with lightly sweet raisin, fig and prune. Soft, malty texture with great attenuation and tight carbonation. Just amazing stuff. No alcohol, no flaw, no surplus of sugar and no adjunct. So refreshing to see an English RIS and a great one, at that. --- Beer merged from original tick of Rising Tide Nikita on 02 Feb 2024 at 00:46 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9. Original review text: Canned 11/10/23, drunk 2/1/24. Clear, dark mahogany. Medium-sized, tan head, moderate retention. Chocolate, nutty, lightly floral rye with caramel, cracker, cacao and no booze. Soft, chocolatey, not too roasty, not too floral, not too nutty. Just a nice balance of sweet malt and good dryness on the finish without any weird yeast, booze or such. Seems really well-aged, moreso than you usually get from a non-BA Imperial Stout. Clean, no booze. Shockingly drinkable.