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Imperial Stout [Basqueland]
North Brewing Co in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England 🏴
Collab with: Basqueland BrewingStout - Imperial Regular
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Score
7.33
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Kees caramel fudge stout is a favourite across all the staff at North, so when it came to collaborating with the famed dark wizards the choice of what we should brew together was quite easy.
Here we’ve brewed a big 10% imperial stout with a complex malt grist using eight different malts, caramel in the boil and coffee and cocoa nibs in the fermentor. The beer has a big nose of creamy tiramisu, an incredibly smooth and silky body and a balanced sweetness to carry these heavyweight flavours. Flavours of rich chocolate, sweet cherries from the mildly roasted coffee and clean oak from the cocoa nibs make this beer a perfect aperitif or pudding substitute.
Here we’ve brewed a big 10% imperial stout with a complex malt grist using eight different malts, caramel in the boil and coffee and cocoa nibs in the fermentor. The beer has a big nose of creamy tiramisu, an incredibly smooth and silky body and a balanced sweetness to carry these heavyweight flavours. Flavours of rich chocolate, sweet cherries from the mildly roasted coffee and clean oak from the cocoa nibs make this beer a perfect aperitif or pudding substitute.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330ml can. Pours almost black with a big tan head. Aroma of dark chocolate, roast malts. Taste of dark chocolate, roast malts, some dried fruits, light spice, hint of smoke, brown sugar, mostly on the sweet side with a light bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation.
Tried
from Can
on 19 May 2018
at 22:57
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Black beer, light brown head. Rich chocolate, coffee and malt smell. Flavour follows similar lines with a bit of toasty malt balancing out the sweetness of the chocolate. The coffee really comes through as you go through it and it lingers in the aftertaste. This is rich, hefty, stouty goodness.
Tried
on 11 May 2018
at 21:37
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Lata 33 cl en el gato que bebía cerveza Valladolid. 02..04..2018. (r12). Fcpref 01..08..2018 en fondo lata. Color negro intenso con espuma beige persistente. Sabores maltosos tostados con toques de levaduras, ligeros dulces torrefactos, cacaos y vainillas. Cuerpo medio algo seco. Suave amargo final. Buena.
Tried
on 03 May 2018
at 11:07
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
33 cl psychedelic can from Más que cervezas, Madrid (they open every single day of the year, man!) OK, back to business: it pours super dark caramel-mahogany, almost pitch black, with virtually no head (yeah, there's like a second in which you behold a magnificent brown foamy one, but it lingers zilch, so forget about it.) Aroma is caramel, smoke, leather, coffee (espresso, of course), toffee, bacon, cola syrup. Quite nice and rich. Powerful, alcoholic and very bitter, yet well balanced due to a nice, fresh acidity (yet not zesty, do not misunderstand this statement.) Very long persistence with beautiful reminiscences of black plums and Cuban cigars. Quite fine by me.
Tried
from Can
on 02 May 2018
at 21:09
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can at home. Pours black, nose is roasted, earthy, chocolate, taste is brown sugar, toffee, roasted, bitter, a bit thin. --- Beer merged from original tick of X Basqueland Imperial Stout on 02 Oct 2018 at 19:40 - Score: 7
Tried
from Can
on 28 Apr 2018
at 09:27
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Keg at MK's Vauxhall. It pours darkest brown with a small tan head. The aroma is umami, liquorice, tobacco, smoked aspect, rich roasted malt, meaty, touch of treacle and charred wood. The taste is dry, bitter, rich roasted malt, smoked action, earthy, tobacco, varnish, dark fruits, cacao and warming alcohol with a drying and toothy finish. Medium+ body and fine carbonation. Decent enough.
Tried
on 03 Apr 2018
at 09:12
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can from Beer Cave. Pours black with a thick beige head. Aromas of liquorice and chocolate. Taste has coffee, smoke, tar, dark chocolate. Fir the oats added, I find it a little thin. Bit of dark sugar on the finish.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Apr 2018
at 16:17
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
North Brewing Co / Basqueland Imperial Stout Imperial Stout 748415
Lukt: Kaffe, bek, lakris og sjokolade. Utseende: Sort. Skum/kullsyre: Tynt skum. Smak: Kaffe, røsta malt, lakris, sjokolade. Hvor: True North Bar, Stavanger. Medium: Tapp@150ml@planke, ABV@8%, Når@10.03.2018.
Lukt: Kaffe, bek, lakris og sjokolade. Utseende: Sort. Skum/kullsyre: Tynt skum. Smak: Kaffe, røsta malt, lakris, sjokolade. Hvor: True North Bar, Stavanger. Medium: Tapp@150ml@planke, ABV@8%, Når@10.03.2018.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Mar 2018
at 12:14
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can from Park Fever, Hither Green. The darkest possible brown pour with a tan head. Nose of brown sugar, coffee, dark chocolate, smoke. Taste of cola, liquorice, lots of coffee, more smoke, dark chocolate. Long sweet malty finish. Very tasty.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Mar 2018
at 10:07
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From tap. Pours pitch black. Small brown head. Aroma is dense roasted, alcohol. Dry, roasted, bitter and dark malty. Dry, slight herbal. Bitter and herbal finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Mar 2018
at 13:24