Rain Shadow
(has 8 batches)
Buxton Brewery in Buxton, Derbyshire, England 🏴
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.90
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A brooding, heavyweight stout, crammed with intense, deep roast specialty malts.
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8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
330 ml can at the Taproom. Pours a reddish black with short tan head. Aromas of oaky bourbon, copper, dark caramel, and slick roasted malts. Flavors of chocolate liqueur, more oaky bourbon, dark sugars, and oily roasted malts with a little bit of black currant. Very good.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Mar 2020
at 13:46
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can. Nose is roast, peat, soy, hints of licorice, ash, light fruity blackcurrant. Taste is soy, licorice, salt, hints of chocolate, leading to fuller dark chocolate, roast, lightly fruity blackcurrant, the fruity notes emerge as it opens up and some very sweet candied fruit notes emerge. Praline, hints of vanilla ice cream, hazelnut, almond, touch of marzipan. It's a really good example, but I don't love it as much as the earlier editions, looking at my notes I suspect it's my changing palate as much as the beer, but this feels over sweet in the finish.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Mar 2020
at 20:26
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ Jazzy Hours, Ratebeer Odense, March 2020, Oluf Bagers Gade. Pours Black with a small beige head. Roast, chocolate and coffee. Charcoal, salty licorice, Piratos and katjes. Dry roasted bitter finish. Smooth and dry bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2020
at 20:12
7/10
Jazzy Hours, Ratebeer Odense, March 2020. Black with a lasting tan head. Roasted aroma with charcoal, chocolate and licorice. Sweetish roasted flavour with licorice and a touch of smoke.
Tried
on 03 Mar 2020
at 20:11
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottled, 330 ml from Beerdome. Shared with Max and Miro B. Black with tan head. Chocolate, roasted, sweetish, bourbon, some fruity notes, oily. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Feb 2020
at 06:58
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Aroma: Dark roasted malt with coffee and chocolate. Flavour: Roasted malty sweet with fruity sweetness and bitterness with notes of coffee. Aftertaste is malty sweet and bitter. Mouthfeel is creamy and alcoholic warm. Colour: Black with a brown head. From: Can @ Tidens Farver Aarhus Feb. 2020.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Feb 2020
at 17:11
8/10
Koffie, maar lekker smooth. Treindrinkings voor simplicity fest.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Feb 2020
at 15:37
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
2019 can. Black. Roast, caramel, amandelspijs in the aroma and flavor. Sweet, full bodied, red fruit. Soft vinous notes. Low on carbon. Well balanced.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Feb 2020
at 13:37
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at Pikkulintu, Helsinki. Color is dark brown with small slightly brownish head. Aromas and flavours: Dark chocolate, some sweetness, some bourbon and roadsted malts.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2020
at 16:42
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
330ml can. Pours black with a thin tan head. Aroma of bourbon, oak, dark malts, chocolate. Taste has strong bourbon character, oaky, dark fruity and chocolatey malts, roast/coffee, liquorice. Full bodied, rich stout.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Jan 2020
at 22:25