Russian Stout
Bottle Brook in Belper, Derbyshire, England 🏴
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.03
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Fin (18365) reviewed Russian Stout from Bottle Brook 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask, gravity at Merton Winter Beer Festival 05-02-10 Pours black with a light beige head. Roasty notes on nose along with some coffee and bitter chocolate. Taste is more of the same but chocolate is quite bitter in the background, quite dry and very easy drinking tastes nothing like 8% If tasting blindfold I would have guessed 5% tops, little fruity tang half way through. Enjoyable stuff but not quite what I was expecting. A7 A4 F7 P3 Ov14 3.5
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Russian Stout from Bottle Brook 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Cask gravity at London Drinker BF 08. Black with thin beige head. Slightly choccy, some heat from alcohol. OK, that’s an impy stout. That woke me up from a mid afternoon lull. A little lacking in fullness in the mouth. Lots of beautiful dark choc on finish. Somewhat bitter, but not harsh. The dark choc on the finish is excellent. Settle down into a very subtle impy stout with an almost liquid 70% cocoa dark choc. This gets better as you drink it. Lovely.