Cryptical Imperial Stout (Bourbon Barrel)
Starr Hill Brewery in Crozet, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.28
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Black, beige head. Aroma of bourbon, vanilla, chocolate and brown sugar. Bitter flavour, sweet malts, chocolate and bourbon. Bitter finish, dark chocolate.
(from draught @ GBBF ’14, London)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Cask@GBBF 2014, London (13/08/2014) - dark brown near black coloured pour with a thin tan head. Roasted malty aroma and taste, prominent caramel, chocolate, some vanilla, bourbon woody nuances on palate, very nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Cask at GBBF
Damn near black with a small tan head, some lacing. Aroma is woody, bourbon and oak. Taste is woody, bourbon, oak and dark malts
Very nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Cask at GBBF, 2014. Very dark brown pour, no head. Lots of caramel, toffee and licorice aroma which blends nicely into the flavour. Incredibly smooth mouthfeel. Very nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sampled @ GBBF. Dark brown to black color, small light brown head. Aroma and taste are malts, bourbon, wood, lightly vanilla, alcohol, bitter. Medium to full body and carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask - Molasses and dark chocolate, bourbon and a bit of booze. Jet black with almost no head. Boozy barbells, molasses, vanilla and a bitter finish. Nice but a bit hot.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 2013, Great British Beer Festival, London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX.Clear dark black brown color with a average, frothy - fizzy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, chocolate, dark chocolate, laber larver (bourbon), moderate hoppy. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, dark roasted, laber larver - bourbon - vanilla, chocolate. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20130813]
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at Mekong on 05/18/2011. Dark black body with a small creamy light brown head. Sweet chocolate roast and caramel aroma. Sweet chocolate, roast and dry bitter flavor. Full body with moderate carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Gravity cask at GBBF Session 1 - London. Pours clear, black-brown with a faint, bubbly tan head. The nose holds harsh alcohol, earth and straight dark malts. Medium sweet flavour with moderate brown sugar, some oily dark chocolate, char and roast. Medium to full bodied with soft carbonation. Sweet finish, lightly warming, with further oily chocolate and charred malts. OK.