Iron Road Brewing Northern King - Barrel Aged

Northern King - Barrel Aged

 

Iron Road Brewing in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦

  Stout - Imperial Regular
Score
7.13
ABV: 10.0% IBU: 70 Ticks: 5
At the end of 2018, we put our Northern King Russian Imperial stout in freshly emptied Four Rose bourbon barrels. It was bold going into the barrels and even more so coming out. In addition to the roast, chocolate, and coffee notes there are bourbon, vanilla, and wood characteristics.
 

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7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Tasting at Matt's, vintage 2019, bottle
Solid imperial stout, with very strong alcohol punch; there is a good balance of roasted malt and chocolate, then rounded off by the bourbon; moderately sweet.
Boozy dark chocolate, good.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Sep 2020 at 04:03


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

650mL bottle, pours black with a small tan head. Nose brings out medium roasted malt, moderate bourbon, and some wood. Flavour is robust, with lots of robust roasted malt, a strong bourbon character, wood, and even some forceful hops. Really competent barrel age use. This is excellent.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Jul 2020 at 07:32


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

22oz at Matt's amenity room. Appearance: almost black with a light beige head. Aroma: lots of molasses, some roasty character, moderately sweet. Taste: along the same lines, quite harsh and boozy, on the spirit side, good body, roasty. Overall: not elegant, but it is a good try.

Tried on 31 Jul 2020 at 05:15


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Jet black brown with a decent light brown head. Bourbon, roast and chocolate. Sticky and sweet with bourbon and dark chocolate. Decent.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Jul 2020 at 05:15


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Dark brown. Thin head. On the nose, it's got a touch of toasty, graham cracker, that sort thing. It's got some sweet stuff up front, a fair bit of bitterness. The bourbon is not bad - comes across a bit rough, but both components (base + barrel) are good. So ends up solid.

Tried on 31 Jul 2020 at 05:09