5th Anniversary - Chocolate Raspberry Imperial Stout
Westbrook Brewing Co. in Mt Pleasant, South Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.78
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Our 5th Anniversary beer is a dark and decadent imperial stout fermented with raspberries and finished on cocoa nibs and a touch of vanilla.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 9
22oz bottle pours out black topped with a small tan head. Nose is nice raspberry jam sweetness chocolate sweetness roast malts. Taste is more of the heavy raspberry jam sweetness and nice rich chocolate malt sweetness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2016
at 00:02
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
CBC. Black with a light brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, chocolate and raspberries. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish. Oily. 130516
Tried
on 08 Jun 2016
at 09:37
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
CBC. Black with big brown head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, liquorice, little tequila, berries and vegetables. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, little tequila, cocoa, caramel, berries, medium sweet and medium bitter.
Tried
on 01 Jun 2016
at 10:41
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
[5/13/16] Draught sample at Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2016. Yellow session. Black with a beautiful tan head. Aroma has lots of chocolate, raspberries. Sweet, sourish, and slightly bitter flavor, with chocolate and raspberries. Full-bodied.
Tried
on 27 May 2016
at 09:48
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
From tap at Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2016 - Yellow session. Black color with beige head. Roasted malty and fruity aroma, chocolate, cocoa, licorice, caramel, raspberries. Sweet and light bitter taste like aroma. Medium to full oily body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 May 2016
at 11:14
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tap@Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2016, Copenhagen - pours black with a tan head. Dark roasted and sweet malty with chocolate and raspberry focus, some additional caramel and fudge like sweetness, some coffee, vanilla nuances into the finish. Excellent.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 May 2016
at 06:41
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at CBC ’16. Black with a small tan head. Aroma of strong raspberry upfront with roast, dark chocolate, coffee and caramel. Flavour is light heavy sweet and bitter. Light full bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 May 2016
at 08:53
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap @CBC16. Thick and black, small tan head. Aroma has roast, dark chococlate and berries. Flavour has dark choc and berries, coffee, roast and some caramel. Sticky with roasted bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 May 2016
at 15:53
9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
On tap at CBC 2016. Pitch black with a tall espresso head. Tons of chocolate in the nose. Tastes like chocolate, cocoa, coffee. A lot of chocolate in the aftertaste, without the usual malt roastiness. Excellent.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 May 2016
at 12:33
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sample at CBC 2016. Black with a small head. Aroma and taste of raspberries, dark chocolate, roasted malt and some hints of wood. Sweet and with a long aftertaste.
Tried
on 16 May 2016
at 02:49