L'Impératrice (Heaven Hill)
Le Trou du Diable in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.33
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle has a Lot with a rectangle that's supposed to give a date, I presume. Illegible.
Pours black with a heck of a nice tan head of long lasting foam.
I smell a lot of caramel malt, Bourbon, bits of dark fruit, toffee.
The taste is kinda roasty with caramel malt, toffee, and a weird bitter sweet thing going on. Mixed with the Bourbon, it's not something that I favour. There's some booziness but it's tolerable.
Medium bodied with light carbonation.
All in all, I find this very disappointing. I have no idea how old it is. Shrugs.
Backlog
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tap at beerlovers bar. 2016 edition, 10 abv. Pours very dark brown, clear. Small white head. Side by side tasted with the bottle , also 20166 vintage. Bottle was a gusher. Smell is buttery bourbon, burnt grainyness, but not in a enjoyable way to me. Taste is sharp, bit bitter, bit sweet, rather dry, very much bourbon. Out of balance to me. Weak body. Dont love this one.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
7-3-7-3-14
On tap @ What's Brewing 17. Pours black, with a creamy mocha head. Aroma is roasted malts with dark fruits, tobacco and muscovado, as well as wooden barrels. Medium body, with average carbonation. Flavour is dark roasted malts with fruity notes of tobacco and bourbon wooden barrels, as well as raisins and muscovado.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sampled at BXL. Dark pour with a tan head. Notes of roasted malts, oxidized fruit, dark chocolate, cocoa, bourbon, dried fruit. Full body, medium to full body, fruity bitter-sweet finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Dégustée à l'été 2016 sur place (De mes notes). .
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Botella. @Cimmeria, Oviedo 15/06/2017
Color negro opaco con corona de espuma beige, aromas a madera con notas torrefactas, sabores a licor y madera, cuerpo medio.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5
16.06.2017, 0,75l bottle shared @ local tasting:
Gusher. Huge fizzy longlasting head. Aroma is strange sour-ish mineraly, bloodlike minerals, grass, minerals, alcohol, dark malts, mild bourbon, weeds, bark. Taste is slightly dry sour-ish mineraly, weeds, minerals, bark, oak, mild bourbon, medicine, booze, dark malts, grass. Medium to longlasting bitterness, slightly harsh medical mouthfeel. So disappointing...
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Poured from the tap. Dark black with tan head. Soy and leather with hints of roast malt, mild alcohol. Pretty lacklustre to be honest.