Imperial Bourbon Stout
Mick Duff's Brewing Company

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From:
Mick Duff's Brewing Company
 
Idaho, United States
Style:
American Imperial Stout
ABV:
9.5%
Score:
Needs more ratings
Avg:
3.96 | pDev: 6.82%
Reviews:
1
Ratings:
2
Status:
Active
Rated:
Aug 06, 2016
Added:
Aug 01, 2015
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Recent ratings and reviews.
 
Rated: 4.23 by jordanginsberg from Louisiana

Aug 06, 2016
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.68/5  rDev -7.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
16oz glass (really?) at the brewpub, coming in at 9.5% ABV, and made with nugget and cascade hops, chocolate, molasses, and Bourbon barrel oak chips aged in an unspecified cold cellar since December 2014.

This beer appears a solid, light-absorbing black hole, with subtle reddish basal edges, and one hefty finger of puffy, densely foamy, and mildly creamy beige head, which leaves some broadly scoped atmospheric lace around the glass as it slowly abates.

It smells of bready, doughy, and lightly toasted caramel malt, bittersweet chocolate, dark euro crackers, generic black licorice, wet mixed smokers' ash, and rather faint Bourbon 'barrel ' esters - weak gritty wood and benign vanilla, mostly. The taste is sharp woody barrel notes (natch), the vanilla joined by some dry caramel notes, as well as a minor rye spiciness, with a native roasted caramel malt, further besotted biscuits, subtle anise, wet ash, and a tame leafy weedy, and earthy hop bitterness.

The bubbles are pretty much a no-show for the most part, barely an ephemeral frothiness detectable at the blurst of times, the body a solid medium-heavy weight, and generally smooth, perhaps a wee boozy woodiness taking a minor toll here. It finishes sweet, sure, from the typical suspects and yet with none of the usual caveats I tend to reel off.

For the production method employed here, this comes off as more than all right. Full in bearing, and pretty tasty, my preset diatribe against the use of home brewery-friendly oak chips seems to have been lost in my at best dodgy notes. Worthy of checking out, with the A/C, or when all those alpine shops become relevant once again around here.
Aug 01, 2015
Imperial Bourbon Stout from Mick Duff's Brewing Company
Beer rating: 3.96 out of 5 with 2 ratings