BA Prototype 2024: Bourbon Oak Blend
Nova Runda in Zabok, Krapina-Zagorje, Croatia 🇭🇷
Stout - Imperial Series|
Score
7.51
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Our signature Prototype Imperial Stout that spent eighteen months in a blend of Kentucky bourbon barrels, developing layers of vanilla, dark chocolate, and oak complexity.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can picked up from a small beer and tobacco shop in Primošten, Croatia and consumed at Scott and Mandy's, Dumbleton, Glos/Worcs border Fri 10th October 2025, shared this with dad. Pours shark eye black with a small tan coloured head. The nose is very much bourbon dominant but actually not overpowering, there is also elements of chocolate and a light waft of coffee also. It's a little bit boozy, nice roasted malt, the bourbon again, chocolate, vanilla, btw nice mouthfeel. it's a nice beer.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Oct 2025
at 21:00
9/10
Tried
on 10 Jan 2025
at 19:36
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from Spicy Days, shared at Sandi's megatasting. Black body, didn't note too much head. Old barrel notes, licorice, alcohol and chocolate in the aroma - not as rough as some variants hinted. Smooth, sweet taste - cocoa, citric touches, light vanilla, light alcohol, bit heavy but smooth. Was this actually the base for others blended with some other bourbon barrel? Unsure, but it's better than the variants in my book!
Tried
from Can
from
Spicy Days (Tratinska)
on 28 Dec 2024
at 18:45
8/10
Tried
on 11 Dec 2024
at 22:29
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Canned 500ml. -at Goblet Zagreb, shared with Hrabren. Pitch black coloured, small to medium sized brown head, bourbon in the nose. Roasted malt, alcohol, bourbon barrel, light vanilla and some raisins with strong alcohol in the finish.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Dec 2024
at 21:41
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
0.5 l can shared with Ogi and other at Goblet Beer Store, Zagreb. Dark brown to black, minimal head. Aroma is soft milk chocolate, toasty, roasty, oak, molasses and hints of lacquer. Flavour is sweet molasses, roasty, nutty. Rich, soft, quite drinkable, not alcoholic. Balanced, finishes sweet.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Dec 2024
at 16:49
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Canned, 500 ml at Ambasada. Black with tan head. Nice chocolate and bourbon, cocoa, light fruity notes, touch of vanilla, tad thin for what it is. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Can
from
Ambasada.
on 28 Nov 2024
at 23:00