Ra Ra Rasputin - Glenora Whiskey
Big Spruce Brewing in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
6.95
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
[2021 vintage] Pours dark brown with small beige head. Roast, caramel malts, and whiskey barrels on the nose. Flavour has whiskey, dry barrels, fairly toned down malts, some boozy heat on the finish. Rather thin-bodied.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Poured from 330mL bottle (2021 vintage - side by side with rye whiskey version). Very dark brown with minimal beige head. Dark fruit on the nose, sweet whiskey on the taste. Thin-medium body (rye whiskey version is a touch fuller).
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
330mL bottle, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma brings out whiskey barrels, medium roast, and light cocoa. Flavour is nicely whiskey-dominated, with lots of whiskey barrels, medium roast, some booze and a touch of vanillins. Not that complex or integrated, and lacking much depth. Fairly thin-bodied. It's decent but nothing special.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at Black Christmas March 2022, vintage 2021
Slightly more smelly and less character than the Rye Whiskey version, it's a decent strong Brown Ale, with no soul.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Brown bottle, 650 ml, 2018 vintage, from, with and at Sébastien Bertrand (merci!), savoured on August 29, 2021; eye: dark brown, opaque, no effervescence, good sheet of beige head, no lacing; nose: whisky, light alcohol, malt, light medicinal, coffee, light sweat, rum, light molasses, light chocolate, slight coffee; mouth: whisky, light alcohol, malt, light medicinal, coffee, light sweat, rum, light molasses, light chocolate, slight coffee, light brown sugar, light maple, finale in rum with light presence of alcohol, full bodied, lightly below average carbonation, lightly sweet, alcoholic texture; in summary: quite good FRANÇAIS
Bouteille brune, 650 ml, millésime 2018, de, avec et chez Sébastien Bertrand (merci!), savourée le 29 août 2021; œil : brun foncé, opaque, pas d'effervescence, bonne couverture de mousse beige, pas de dentelle; nez : whisky, léger alcool, malt, léger médicinal, café, léger sueur, rhum, léger mélasses, léger chocolat, très léger café; bouche : whisky, léger alcool, malt, léger médicinal, café, léger sueur, rhum, léger mélasses, léger chocolat, très léger café, léger cassonade, léger érable, finale en rhum avec très légère présence d'alcool, corsée, carbonatation légèrement sous la moyenne, légèrement sucrée, texture alcoolique; en résumé : bien bon
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Dark brown. Medium head. On the nose, it's got a sticky, kind of clumsy smelling whiskey note overtop of what seems to be a really sweet impy. On the palate, better balance. A medium richness impy, with layers of chocolate and coffee. The whiskey lends some sugary richness, but it's balanced with more tannins and acidity. I'm digging this.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle: Poured a pitch-black color stout with a medium size dark brown foamy head with OK retention and light lacing. Aroma of roasted malt and black chocolate notes with some vinous notes and light residual sugar notes. Taste is a mix of roasted malt and black chocolate with some vinous notes and light residual sugar notes from the port wine barrels. Body is about average with good carbonation with light warming alcohol notes. Interesting mix of flavours thought not sure port barrels are the best to mix with imperial stout flavours.