Imperial Stout - BA Brandy Cask
XT Brewing in Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire, England 🏴
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
6.76
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Keg at the Brewery tap, 05/03/18. Black with a decent tan head. Nose is bitter roast, dark fruit rinds, brandy barrel, oak, dates, raisins, burnt toffee. Taste comprises fruit cake, plummy, ripe dark fruits, molasses, dark chocolate, roast malts. Full bodied, fine carbonation, warming alcohol in the close. Decent enough BA affair.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
At Merton Winter Beer Festival 2018. Black dark cola coloured lasting tan head. Chocolate toffee brandy aroma. Sweet aroma. Oak woody. Warming aroma. I mean it'll get you drunk hides abv well. Barrel age character on aroma. Just about ok. Too much wood for me. Made me happy though.
Fin (18516) reviewed Imperial Stout - BA Brandy Cask from XT Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Merton Beer Festival, Merton, Oxon, Friday 23rd 2018. Pours black with hardly any head at all. The aroma whilst present here is very much muted when compared to the sherry cask, you wonder if this cask has either been used a few times now or if it is just struggling to impose itself in the way that the sherry cask does. As I said with the other variant this is a Imperial Stout very much in the more traditional old style, it's big, ballsy, meaty and I get a beefyness about it the brandy notes are there but subdued. A little dark, bitter chocolate when I would crave a touch more sweetness it's fine but not totally my bag. As I said with the other sherry version if you go traditional then go more like Courage and Harveys who do it for me both offering a level of complexity and fruity tang to a big beast.A6 A4 T7 P3 Ov13 3.3