Black Riesling Imperial Stout
Field House Brewing in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.11
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Brewed: Vintage 2022
Fermentation: Primary in steel, Aged on wine skins
Fruit: Dornfelder grapes from Whispering Horse Winery
Yeast: Ale yeast
This imperial stout is full-bodied, dark, and smooth. Aged on Dornfelder grape skins for two months creating a velvet-like texture and allowing the roasted malts to meld with the subtle dark berry notes of the grapes. The skins also add a great depth of colour to this complex stout.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
[Vintage 2022]. 500mL bottle. Pours black with foamy pinkish beige head. Aroma has a lot of dark chocolate, dark grape skins, and roasted malt. The flavour was quite dry and with very prominent red wine notes. Also had dark chocolate, a bit of roasted malt, and some tannic bitterness. A bit haphazard, but quite good and an interesting experiment.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Dark brown, with a purplish brown head. Medium body for style. Some coffee roastiness, and this is rounded by the grape -which is dornfelder, not riesling. The vinous notes lend a pleasant accent to the stout, which as with all FH attempts at an impy is light and thin for the style.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
500 ml bottle. Pours black with a pinkish tan head. Aromas of chocolate, cotton candy, and roasted malts. Flavors of roasted malts, light vinous oak, vanilla, and subtle red grapes. Very nice. Has some complexity. And I think this is the best Field House I have had…
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
500mL bottle, pours jet black with a medium dark brown head. Aroma brings out deep roasted malt, some grape must, earthiness and some molasses. Flavour is surprisingly dry—almost bone dry—with medium roast, molasses, and musty grape skins. Quite unusual for an imperial stout, but I think it works. Interesting experiment.