Starr Hill Brewery Cryptical Imperial Stout (Bourbon Barrel)

Cryptical Imperial Stout (Bourbon Barrel)

 

Starr Hill Brewery in Crozet, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production
Score
7.28
ABV: 10.0% IBU: 70 Ticks: 22
Bourbon-Barrel Cryptical is an American Imperial Stout that has been aged in bourbon barrels, allowing it to pick up notes of bourbon and vanilla. It packs a wallop of dark malt flavor. The beer weighs in at 10% ABV and has dark, fruity flavors, like raspberry, plum and star anise. Cryptical is dry-hopped with American Hops to balance out its full body with a floral aroma.
 

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8
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)

Tried on 06 Nov 2015 at 00:36


7.9
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.

Tried from Cask on 09 Sep 2014 at 07:23


7.6
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.

Tried from Cask on 24 Aug 2014 at 18:51


8
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.

Tried from Cask on 19 Aug 2014 at 14:05


8
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.

Tried on 18 Aug 2014 at 23:49



7.5
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.

Tried from Cask on 12 Aug 2014 at 11:58


7.8
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]

Tried from Cask on 19 Jan 2014 at 09:07


7.2
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.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Jan 2014 at 16:11


6.4
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.

Tried from Cask on 25 Dec 2013 at 06:30