Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Dark brown. Aroma is chocolate and coffee. OK, way too much carbonation, it's got a bit of sugar but it seems like something is eating that sugar. Bugs? Yeah, something here. Not something good. It's not 100% off but it's definitely not on. That's interesting, but not good interesting. Just like damn, was there a good beer here at some point?
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5
330mL bottle, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma has gentle espresso, plenty of roasted malt, and a touch of vanillin. Flavour seems like it has a low-level brett infection, with the high carb, low-level tartness, some alcohol, and molasses. Well, this is all sorts of wrong, and not really in such an egregious way. How does this brewery produce so many infected (BA) imperial stouts? The brett infection here will just get worse and worse with time. Fucking fix your brewing issues, guys.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Poured from 330mL bottle. Very dark brown with small beige head. Weird dry roast with a feint brett quality, abv also doesn't seem anywhere close to 18%. Not totally off, but will likely go off soon.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
375mL bottle. Pours dark brown with a beige head. Lots of espresso and dark chocolate on the nose. Flavour has a ton of dry espresso, borderline Brett infection, some dark chocolate. I don't understand how this turned out this way, this is an icebocked stout, how is it so light and carbed? This makes four of four stouts from this brewery with an infection.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
A hazed rosey gose with a thin lacing white head. In aroma, sweet fruity mix of tart raspberry, light lactic notes, light Epsom salts. In mouth, sweet fruity malt with light raspberry jam, light acidity, light mineral notes. Ok.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 4
355mL can, pours black with a small tan head. Nose is odd, with some boiled vegetables, celery, and toasted malt – something is quite wrong here. Flavour is all wrong, with plenty of boiled vegetables, toasted chestnuts, and rotting wood. This is all sorts of fucked up. Very bad.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5.5
Medium brown colour. There's a cardboard accent on this, maybe some roast but you really do have to look for it. On the palate, it's got a sharp sourness. Have you ever had carrot juice with a squeeze of lemon? That's the vibe I'm getting. In other words, not an imperial stout, like really not what they were trying to brew.
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 4.5
355mL can. Pours black with a beige head. There's bourbon, nuts, and something fucked up on the nose. Flavour has sour nuts, bourbon, stale roasted malts. This is a mess, something clearly went wrong with the barrel aging. This is fucked.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Vibrant amber colour. Thin head. Crystal malt and marmalade throwback aroma. That orange is nice, lemon verbena, some lychee. On the palate, it's got again that bright citrusy character. Lots of bitterness, and lots of sweetness, too. Not that chewy, actually, certainly less chewy than the aroma hinted at. Everything is coming together really well.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6
355mL can, pours a clear dark amber red with a small beige head. Aroma is pretty hoppy for a barleywine, with resinous notes, caramel malt, and bready notes. Flavour is on the drier, hoppier side for a barleywine, with bready malt, toasted caramel, and some earthy hoppy bitterness. Reasonably balanced with slight astringent bitterness on the finish. Good but nothing more.