Imperial Eclipse Stout - Rye Cuvée
FiftyFifty Brewing Company in Truckee, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.78
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Now in its 12th vintage, 2019 Eclipse is our rich Imperial Stout aged to perfection in whiskey and spirit barrels. All Eclipse starts with the same base beer bringing hints of dark chocolate, espresso, and a smooth complexity, with each barrel treatment delivering its own unique character after a minimum of 180 days of aging. Rye Cuvée is aged in a variety of premium rye whiskey barrels. Dipped in dark green (olive drab) wax.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at C&R Pre-GBBF Tasting 2017. It pours jet black with a small beige head. The aroma is soft, sweet, rich roasted malts, creamy, sticky, treacle, chocolate, honeycomb, vanilla and a touch of spice. The taste is slick, oily, honeycomb, toasty, dark roasted malt, slick, chewy toffee, earthy, leather, cocoa, charred wood, light spice and warming alcohol with a slick finish. Full body and fine, prickly carbonation. Well rounded and way more drinkable than it should be.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Sep 2017
at 12:09
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared at Chriso’s and Ruth pre GBBF shindig. 02/08/2017. Huge thanks to Steve I’ve known. A dark black brown coloured pour with a light tan head. Aroma is sweet praline, coconut, peanut butter. Oaky peanut butter.. Palate is semi sweet, full bodied, moderate carbonation. Creamy. Flavour is composed of sweet honey, chocolate, coco pops, coco. Palate is sweet, full bodied, moderate carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2017
at 14:42
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle 9 at cropredy 2017 Friday.. Dark black.. Small tan head... Dark sweet honey chocolate roast malts nose.. Soft meaty chocolate roast malts nose.. Dark dry chocolate roast malts.. Heavy dry roast... Light bitter roast... Dark chocolate roast malts.. One of the best 50 50 i had recently
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Aug 2017
at 07:35
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Bottle picked up from GBBF foreign bar, cheers Steve (Beersi’veknown) for serving me , consumed at Fairport Annual Reunion, Friday 11th August 2017. Pours black with a beige head, some heat and then honey comes through, black treacle, bonfire toffee, roasty, rich, mocha, vanilla, cocoa, superb. A8 A4 T9 P5 Ov15 4.1
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Aug 2017
at 07:27
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle shared at Chris and Ruth’s Pre Gbbf Shindig 2017. Dark brown beer with a small beige head. Aroma of dark malt, Honey, chocolate. Taste of strong dark malt, honey, bourbon, nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2017
at 04:19
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Honey version. Bottle at Chriso pre GBBF Shindig 2017. Dark brown. Some chocolate sponge. Dark chocolate. Not much honey. Dark chocolate. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2017
at 03:52
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle 22fl.oz. @ [ chriso & Boudicca's pre- GBBF Shindig 2017 ] - Chris and Ruth's House, London. [ As FiftyFifty Imperial Eclipse Stout - Honey - 10th Release Edition ]. Clear dark brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, honey, wood. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a long duration, wood, honey, roasted, chocolate. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20170805] 8-4-8-4-16
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2017
at 01:36
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared at Chriso’s and Ruth pre GBBF shindig, August 5, 2017. Brown pour. Flat. Bourbon nose, vanilla and barrel quite strong. Taste is decent chocolaty stout gotten more boozy with the barrel I guess. Sweet and creamy and with some fresh booze. Honey disappears a bit but still good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Aug 2017
at 04:26
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Sample at Kurtkeller 025: Eclipse-tastic 01 on 12/23/2016. Black pour with a medium frothy beige head that diminishes gradually to a film. Patchy lacing on the glass. Aroma of oak, whiskey, dark chocolate and spice. Full-bodied with flavors of oaky char, rye whiskey, malt and bittersweet chocolate. The finish is oaky with a spicy rye and malt aftertaste. Good beer all around.
Tried
on 03 Jan 2017
at 13:52