XX - Bourbon Imperial Stout
Mad Squirrel in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England 🏴
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Special|
Score
7.36
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BEER STYLE - Bourbon Imperial Stout
HOPS - Herkules
CONTAINS GLUTEN? - YES
VEGAN FRIENDLY? - YES
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Fergus (31537) reviewed XX - Bourbon Imperial Stout from Mad Squirrel 6 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle taster at the St Albans beer festival 2025. A dark black brown coloured pour with a fine tan head. Aroma is meaty earthy roast, bourbon, vanilla,, dried fruits, soy, oily. Flavour is composed of thick chewy roasted malts, Warming bourbon, light tangy white grape, woody roast, dried fruit,. Lingering soy and meaty roast. Liquorice. Palate is semi sweet, chewy, tangy, mellow carbonation. Good but unrefined and rough round the edges. Warming alcohol in the finish.
danlo (13332) reviewed XX - Bourbon Imperial Stout from Mad Squirrel 10 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Panda courtesy of Theydon_Bois, cheers Colin! Black colour, afew bubbles on top and aroma of wood barrel, caramel, bourbon, vanilla. Taste is woody, dark malts, bourbon, vanilla, raisins, with roasty earthy bitterness. Medium bodied, low soft carbonation, drying woody boozy bitter finish. Nicely drinkable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Grumbo (24737) reviewed XX - Bourbon Imperial Stout from Mad Squirrel 11 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
27/4/2025. Bottle shared by Colin, cheers. Pours black with a small tan coloured head. Aroma is woody, bourbon, chocolate, roasted malts, toffee, vanilla. Moderate sweetness, moderate roasted bitterness, slight whisky sour edge. Medium body, smooth, light carbonation. Paired well with some stilton.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
16th July 2025
Panda thanks to Cloin. I was in a crowded St Alban's recently, full of day trippers and tourists and, a beer would have done much to improve my souring mood. Cue a Mad Squirrel tap room! Shut! Unamused. People every feckin where but the tap roomis shut - FAIL! Won't let that affect this rating. 🤥. Near opaque dark brown beer, good bubbly tan head. Smooth palate, airy, mildly dry, good fine carbonation. Smooth dark malts, a good amount of airy dark malt cream and much lesser chocolate. The bourbon barrel is the dominant factor here and it's that damp bourbon infused wet wood slight tang and mild spicyness that bosses the mildly sweet dark malts. Airy finish brings unsweet dark chocolate Malteasers and good fruity bourbon. A mild spicy linger. Rather good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home, from MS HWY, 06/04/2025.
Black topped with a lasting khaki head.
Nose is chocolate, vanilla, mellow bourbon, dark malts.
Taste comprises roast malts, charr, raisins, bourbon, fruit cake, caramel.
Full bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced rising.
Solid BA impy.