Crazy Ivan (Barrel Aged, Soured)
Mad Fox Brewing Company in Falls Church, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.95
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Take your senses on a journey. Our 2015 Russian Imperial Stout was selected Second Place for the Michael Jackson Award at the Great British Beer Festival. This beer has been aged for nine months in Tennessee whiskey barrels where it was allowed to spontaneously sour. The malt bill is comprised of imported English pale, crystal, brown and black malts with a good amount of roasted barley and flaked oats. Hopping is a very generous helping of English variety First Gold. The complex intersection of oak, roasted malt, ol’ No. 7, and tart notes will have you pondering where the next sip will take you. Za vashe zdorovie!
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4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Cask gravity at GBBF 2015. Black beer no head. Vanilla and oak aroma. Sour. I mean it’s rubbish. Virtually no base beer and then sour and vanilla and burn. As an imperial stout it’s terrible as a bourbon it’s terrible. What a waste. Just poor.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Aug 2015
at 13:12
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask gravity at gbbf 2015 day 3. As soured . opaque mahogany brown viscous pour with a fading tam head. Aroma is oak, vanilla, grapey fruit, alcohol warmth, booze. Flavour is composed of musty grapey fruit, oak booze, salty black malt, fairly smooth roast. Nice drying grape tannin and oak palate is medium full bodied, drying finish. Strawberry and must lingers.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Aug 2015
at 07:08
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From cask at GBBF. Pours hazy dark brown to black with a small tan head. Aroma is fruity, toasted and overripe fruity. Toasted and mild fruity. Dry and wooden, smooth fruity and wineous finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Aug 2015
at 06:48