Imperial Eclipse Stout - Brewmaster's Grand Cru Blend 2011
FiftyFifty Brewing Company in Truckee, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Series Out of Production|
Score
8.01
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2011 Imperial Eclipse Stout (Brewmaster’s Grand Cru Blend) = Copper Wax
Each Brewers Grand Cru Blend is a unique yearly blend from the best barrels for blending from the year. Each is a unique entity different from year’s past and present as they utilize a wide range of different spirit barrels each and every year.
Each Brewers Grand Cru Blend is a unique yearly blend from the best barrels for blending from the year. Each is a unique entity different from year’s past and present as they utilize a wide range of different spirit barrels each and every year.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are roast malt, bourbon, fruits, chocolate, coffee and hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Nov 2012
at 14:33
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Black with a small dark brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, chocolate, vanilla and bourbon. Flavor is very sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish. 091112
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Nov 2012
at 14:19
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle 750ml @ fonefan
Pours dark brown with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, vanilla, oak and caramel. Taste is heavy sweet and light to medium bitter with a long sweet, chocolate, vanilla and oak finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours dark brown with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, vanilla, oak and caramel. Taste is heavy sweet and light to medium bitter with a long sweet, chocolate, vanilla and oak finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Nov 2012
at 14:14
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle @ FOneFan. Very dark brown with small beige head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, bourbon and vanilla. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, little liquorice, sweet, bourbon, vanilla, medium bitter and hop.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Nov 2012
at 14:10
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle (#976, 2011), thanks to Ken at THE Eclipse tasting, 2012. It pours very dark brown, with a thin bubbly beige film. The nose is bourbon, oak, vanilla, toasted coconut, smoke, charcoal, toast, salt and caramel. The taste is roasted malt, toasted, charred wood, tar, toffee, toasted coconut, some astringency, salted caramel, liquorice, lactose, subtle dark fruit, and milk chocolate cake, with a dry, roasty finish. Full body, fine-moderate carbonation and chewy mouth-feel. Bold, yet well balanced. One of the better Eclipses of the evening.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2012
at 10:45
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
23rd October 2012
THE Eclipse Tasting. Bottle 976/2011. Opaque dark brown beer, little pale tan head. Smooth dark malts. Mild carbonation. Bourbon is a little spicy. Mild dark chocolate and a little dark fruits. Semi dry finish.
THE Eclipse Tasting. Bottle 976/2011. Opaque dark brown beer, little pale tan head. Smooth dark malts. Mild carbonation. Bourbon is a little spicy. Mild dark chocolate and a little dark fruits. Semi dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2012
at 10:15
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle at THE Eclipse Tasting, London. Bottle #976, copper wax. Pours clear, dark brown with a frothy beige head. Big, rich dark chocolate nose with plenty of complementing dark sugars, some alcohol presence. Big sweet flavor with a robust alcohol base, some torched wood, dry chocolate, brown sugar. Full bodied with fine carbonation and a moderately oily mouthfeel. Warm finish with lots of chocolate, a bit of alcohol, dirt, good roast, modest earth, brown sugar. Great stuff, very rich and well rounded. One of the best Eclipse editions of the evening.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2012
at 06:28
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle #864. Pours a black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty woody chocolate and bourbon aroma. Roasted malty woody chocolate whiskey flavor with hints of vanilla. Has a roasted malty woody chocolate finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Sep 2012
at 07:06
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Big thanks to BOLTZ7555 for this. It pours deep mahogany with a thin tan head. The aroma offers up plenty of notes such as roasted malts, spicy oak, faint vanilla and slight bourbony like booze. Smells yummy. The taste has wide loads of various booze and vanilla like notes as well as a bit of spicy oak and some sweet aged molasses in the background. The more I try this the more barrel forward and boozy it gets. In the end this is too barrel-y and boozy for my taste as those notes swallow up wonder beer flavors whole.
Tried
on 10 Aug 2012
at 22:46
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
75 cL bottle. Pours with a small tan head. Aroma is smooth toasted malty and toasted caramelish. Smooth toasted and crisp hoppy. Dry and phenolic. Dry and light spiced into the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jul 2012
at 21:07