20th Anniversary Imperial Stout
O'Hara's / Carlow Brewing Company in Bagenalstown, Carlow, Ireland 🇮🇪
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.15
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To celebrate 20 years of brewing we crafted this limited edition Imperial Stout. This beer impresses from the first touch with it’s sheer complexity. Immensely viscous, yet smooth with a rich syrup mouthfeel. The aromas and flavours of rich coffee, chocolate and a light hop addition hit every sense and lead to a long warming finish where the flavours constantly develop. This is a beer which will develop for years in the bottle.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled. Pitch black colour, small beigeish brown foamy head. Aroma is roasted malts, liquoriice, alcohol, coffee and some dried fruits. Flavour is figs, some alcohol, coffee, chocolate, dried fruits, mild nutty tones along with some mild vanilla and toffee too. Very pleasant sipper.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2022
at 18:40
7/10
Tried
on 23 Jul 2022
at 15:34
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Corked bottle. Black. Malt, caramel, salted licorice in the aroma and flabor. Soft tart notes. Sweet. Full bodied. Pleasant and well balanced, but with a limited depth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:05
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Black with little brown head. Aroma is slight smoky, peanuts, dark chocolate, oils, soy sauce. Taste is slight salty, very umami and oily, slight metallic. Intense and interesting taste but I dont feel like taking another sip.
Tried
on 23 Apr 2018
at 19:09
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle with cork. Darkest brown, low brown head. Sweet Port aroma, rural roast, hay, banana, Medium light dry mushroom body, dry roast, a bit earth, salty, light fishy, iodine, berry, heather - tastes like the coast alright. Rye bread with jam retronasal.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2018
at 19:06
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Black color with beige head. Aroma is mushroom, petroleum. Taste is petroleum, chocolate, salty, iodine, soy sauce. Oily mouthfeel with low carbonation. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2018
at 19:04
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle 0.375l. Black, opaque. AROMA- chocolate, roasted cocoa nibs, roasted malts, alcohol. FLAVOR- neutral, touch of sourness, milk chocolate, salty caramel, hazelnuts, touch of alcohol, lightly bitter finish. Fuller bodied.
Very good.
Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Apr 2018
at 08:27
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle: Literally black, medium-sized and slowly collapsing tanned head, leaving rings on the glass; moderate to solid sweet-biiter and "warm" aroma of mainly dried berries and caramelly-toasty malt, the usual traces of chocolate , leather and dry bitter hops are easy to find, too; full bodied, smooth, solid bitter-sweet flavour; drier and lingering bitter coffeeish finish with lots of dried fruits and a tinge of warming alcohol in the aftertaste. Very good and complex winter-warmer...
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2018
at 14:52
5.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 5
37.5cl Bottle from Vonk. Black colour, beige head. Aroma of hard-roasted malts, ink, toffee, cream, burnt chocolate. Flavour is hard-roasted malts, some toffee, sourness from the burnt malts, berries/prunes, lots of ink, acrid. Medium bodied. Didn’t enjoy this at all.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2017
at 10:26
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours a black color with a small small tan head. Has a roasted malty caramel chocolate licorice aroma. Roasted malty chocolate caramel licorice flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate and caramel finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2017
at 09:55