Kentucky Bastard Imperial Stout
Nickel Brook Brewing Co. in Burlington, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.59
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Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout.
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4.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 5
Overall 17
Nice thick tan head. Nose is soft bourbon with mild chocolate and a hint of vanilla. Taste features a nice range of elements -- sweet chocolate, soft bourbon, rich dark fruit, vanilla, molasses, some coffee and a solid touch of woody oak and coconut. These are supplemented by a dense creaminess, significant malt and is punched up by a solid effervescence. Improving with age as well.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Sep 2025
at 20:00
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Quite possibly one of the darkest beers I’ve had in a while. Jet black, medium dark mocha head. The aroma is a slap in the face of spicy bourbon, and earthy, sweet wood, with subtle vanilla and charred brown sugar. As it warms some of the roasty malts come through. There are hard to find amongst the barrel flavours, but they are there. The body is thick, and viscous. The carb is subtle, but not flat. The finish is roasty, quite sweet, with a lot of barrel. This is bordering on a barrel bomb, but it gets better as it warms and the cocoa, and roasty, soy malts come through.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 06:00
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Wijnhuis Blerick. Nice Bourbon aroma with roasted malt, oak, chocolate, some alcohol. Moderate to medium sweet with a mild bitterness and a little alcohol in the finish. Full body. Good stuff, lots of Bourbon.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2025
at 07:04
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
2016 vintage. Old skoolish, roasty and sweetish with some earthiness and licorice.
Tried
on 12 Nov 2024
at 18:22
2/10
11.9 vol
Tried
on 22 Mar 2023
at 19:43
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Refrigerated 0.5 L brown bottle waxed. Black with medium light brown head. Aroma is bourbon, medium body, medium carbonation, and some lacing. Taste is wood, bourbon, and chocolate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Feb 2022
at 00:51
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
2020 version, 11.9%. - Black with dark creamy head. Aroma has a lot of dried prune and quite a lot of vanilla too. They follow through in the taste with those sweeter elements staying quite prominent. Later there's a growing bitterness with mocha notes fading into coffee before the final hit of sweet bourbon and drying wood. It's smooth and oily with a boozy note to the finish.
Tried
on 13 Aug 2021
at 20:27
8/10
Tried
on 17 Jul 2021
at 02:45
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle. A- Oak, slightly metallic, whisky, mild ash. A- Black color, black liquid, brown head. T- Oak, bourbon, cocoa, char, slightly boozy. P- Full body, average texture, average carbonation, balanced finish. O- The barrel influence in here was great. In fact, it was almost a bit tangy from the oak but the rest of the beer kept it in check. Really easy to down for the abv. This was another great variant of this beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2021
at 18:06
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Aug 23, 2024 (8/4/8/4/15=3.9): Poured from 500mL bottle (2021 vintage - 11.9% abv). Black with minimal beige head. Nice bourbon, dry roast, a touch thin, but really nice full flavours. Aug 17, 2020 (8/4/8/4/164.0): Poured from 500mL bottle (2017 vintage - 11.9%). Black with tan head. Rich bourbon barrel with light vanilla and chocolate, touch of leather and soy sauce.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2020
at 05:11