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Imperial Eclipse Stout - Rebel Yell
FiftyFifty Brewing Co.
- From:
- FiftyFifty Brewing Co.
- California, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 9.5%
- Score:
- 87
- Avg:
- 3.85 | pDev: 12.73%
- Reviews:
- 21
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 04, 2018
- Added:
- Dec 07, 2012
- Wants:
- 21
- Gots:
- 14
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Reviewed by SHODriver from North Carolina
4/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A: Poured into a snifter to a black beer topped by a finger of dense light tan head which fades quickly to a collar around the edge of the glass with minimal lacing
S: Smells of rich chocolate with some chewy caramel and vanilla along with a touch of oak. Slight espresso note as well.
T: Taste is pretty barrel forward with some sharp oak, vanilla and caramel before the milk chocolate, roasted malts and coffee come out to play. The barrel note remains pretty forward with some slight corn and astringency. On the swallow this one is more astringent oak, vanilla, and caramel with some lingering milk chocolate, light smoke and roasted malts.
M: This beer is fairly full in body with a slightly silky mouthfeel. Carbonation is slightly effervescent but not over the top for the style while the beer has a drying finish from the abv.
O: Overall this one is pretty good. The barrel flavor in this one isn't as refined as some of the others but it isn't bad. It gives the beer an interesting character and it isn't totally terrible. It definitely has some nice complexity and drinks pretty well. Kind of rough around the edges still and I'm sure it was a little more brash when it was younger.
Dec 04, 2018S: Smells of rich chocolate with some chewy caramel and vanilla along with a touch of oak. Slight espresso note as well.
T: Taste is pretty barrel forward with some sharp oak, vanilla and caramel before the milk chocolate, roasted malts and coffee come out to play. The barrel note remains pretty forward with some slight corn and astringency. On the swallow this one is more astringent oak, vanilla, and caramel with some lingering milk chocolate, light smoke and roasted malts.
M: This beer is fairly full in body with a slightly silky mouthfeel. Carbonation is slightly effervescent but not over the top for the style while the beer has a drying finish from the abv.
O: Overall this one is pretty good. The barrel flavor in this one isn't as refined as some of the others but it isn't bad. It gives the beer an interesting character and it isn't totally terrible. It definitely has some nice complexity and drinks pretty well. Kind of rough around the edges still and I'm sure it was a little more brash when it was younger.
Reviewed by stakem from Pennsylvania
4.17/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.17/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
2012 Bomber into a snifter appears black with a khaki head that fades leaving patchy lace.
Aroma of sweet milk chocolate, earthy almost dusty to woody grain, honey, licorice and coffee.
Taste is sweet with honey, licorice, raison, earthy espresso and bakers cocoa. Fruity alcohol kiss across that back that increases as it warms.
Medium in body with modest carbonation. A very tasty sweet brew that is chuggable. They just dont make eclipse like this anymore.
Mar 30, 2018Aroma of sweet milk chocolate, earthy almost dusty to woody grain, honey, licorice and coffee.
Taste is sweet with honey, licorice, raison, earthy espresso and bakers cocoa. Fruity alcohol kiss across that back that increases as it warms.
Medium in body with modest carbonation. A very tasty sweet brew that is chuggable. They just dont make eclipse like this anymore.
Reviewed by GRG1313 from California
4.25/5 rDev +10.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +10.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
This bottle is far better in my opinion than the overall BA Score reflected. It is black and thick and almost gooey. The nose is pure vanilla and chocolate and rich assertive sweet roasted tones. The mouth feel is viscous and luscious. The flavor profile is simply like chocolate syrup aged in whiskey barrels and hit with carbonation - it's really good!
Apr 10, 2016Rated by kylehay2004 from Illinois
4.41/5 rDev +14.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.41/5 rDev +14.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
this one got better with age. so good
Jan 26, 2016Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
4.24/5 rDev +10.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.24/5 rDev +10.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Always funny when people automatically drop a beer score because it was aged in cheap barrels or whatnot. Like you could pick it out blind fool!
Looks just like every other Eclipse pretty much, brown and black, thin tan head under half an inch. Nice restrained whiskey aroma, not hot, not huge.
Taste is good, chocolate malt jumps in this one, heat is restrained. The only thing I would change about this is that it is hard to distinguish from the 4Roses red wax. But ultimately, its a solid Eclipse offering.
Dec 16, 2015Looks just like every other Eclipse pretty much, brown and black, thin tan head under half an inch. Nice restrained whiskey aroma, not hot, not huge.
Taste is good, chocolate malt jumps in this one, heat is restrained. The only thing I would change about this is that it is hard to distinguish from the 4Roses red wax. But ultimately, its a solid Eclipse offering.
Reviewed by KevSal from California
4.25/5 rDev +10.4%
4.25/5 rDev +10.4%
fantastic variation, better than i expected. Im not the biggest fan of rebel yell but its character works great against this beer, even 2 years later.
After this id love to try eclipse from a fireball barrel
Oct 26, 2014After this id love to try eclipse from a fireball barrel
Reviewed by ADZA from Australia
3.88/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.88/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Big thanks to MrKennedy for this and it's the 2012 edition which pours a dark black hue with a one finger head and lacing all around the place,the rebel yell is very strong on the nose not much else gets a look in apart from dark coffee,the mouthfeel is full bodied,lightly carbonated and sticky with tastes of dark chocolate,bourbon,the slightest hint of oak and finished like a boozy Irish coffee and overall I'm glad I cracked it tonight and just glad to be able to have tried it cheers.
Mar 17, 2014Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.62/5 rDev -6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev -6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
2012 edition, 22oz, heavy red wax sealed bottle - is there a more annoying enclosure to open with a standard tool than this? Anyways, thanks to hoppypocket for getting this to me back across the continent.
This beer pours a solid black, with subtle basal cola highlights, and one finger of densely foamy, bubbly, and creamy cocoa brown head, which leaves splashy ocean wave lace around the glass as it genially abates.
It smells of vanilla and sweet booze-heavy bourbon barrel, semi-sweet chocolate, toasted grainy caramel malt, soused blackberries and plums, treacle, black licorice, plain dark sugar, and musty, dusty hops. The taste kicks off with a rather harsh, almost gag-inducing leather-bound bourbon booziness, the vanilla, caramel, and wood all complicit, before a relatively lulling cocoa, sugared coffee, and astringent anise essence brings things back down to semi-sane reality. The hops seem stunned into oblivion, but I do get a hint of the earthy mustiness afterburner effect.
The bubbles are quite understated, and barely competent in their quotidian duties, the body a heady medium-full weight, and smooth enough, given the swirling alcohol esters hereabouts. It finishes well off-dry, the sweet, rye grain-tinged barrel notes now somewhat integrated into the cocoa, anise, and coffee essences, to my palate and gullet's delight.
A big-ass stout, somewhat molested by an undeserving barrel, is what this all seems to be. Never having had the whiskey in question, I'm not surprised that it gets comparisons to Wild Turkey, as I have quite an adverse reaction to that spirit as well. Just too astringent and boozy overall, the attendant sweet characteristics really only making things worse by showing what might have been, underneath it all.
Nov 19, 2013This beer pours a solid black, with subtle basal cola highlights, and one finger of densely foamy, bubbly, and creamy cocoa brown head, which leaves splashy ocean wave lace around the glass as it genially abates.
It smells of vanilla and sweet booze-heavy bourbon barrel, semi-sweet chocolate, toasted grainy caramel malt, soused blackberries and plums, treacle, black licorice, plain dark sugar, and musty, dusty hops. The taste kicks off with a rather harsh, almost gag-inducing leather-bound bourbon booziness, the vanilla, caramel, and wood all complicit, before a relatively lulling cocoa, sugared coffee, and astringent anise essence brings things back down to semi-sane reality. The hops seem stunned into oblivion, but I do get a hint of the earthy mustiness afterburner effect.
The bubbles are quite understated, and barely competent in their quotidian duties, the body a heady medium-full weight, and smooth enough, given the swirling alcohol esters hereabouts. It finishes well off-dry, the sweet, rye grain-tinged barrel notes now somewhat integrated into the cocoa, anise, and coffee essences, to my palate and gullet's delight.
A big-ass stout, somewhat molested by an undeserving barrel, is what this all seems to be. Never having had the whiskey in question, I'm not surprised that it gets comparisons to Wild Turkey, as I have quite an adverse reaction to that spirit as well. Just too astringent and boozy overall, the attendant sweet characteristics really only making things worse by showing what might have been, underneath it all.
Reviewed by HuskyinPDX from Washington
4.1/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.1/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Bottle opend on 8.10.13
BR 1 2012
A - Pours a dark brown, with a dark tan head that never fully fades, does move to the edges.
S - Chocolate, burnt toast, whiskey.
T - Sweet up-front, then burnt malt, boozy finish.
D - Good carbonation with a medium body.
O - Very sweet and subtle burnt note with a nice whiskey finish.
Aug 11, 2013BR 1 2012
A - Pours a dark brown, with a dark tan head that never fully fades, does move to the edges.
S - Chocolate, burnt toast, whiskey.
T - Sweet up-front, then burnt malt, boozy finish.
D - Good carbonation with a medium body.
O - Very sweet and subtle burnt note with a nice whiskey finish.
Imperial Eclipse Stout - Rebel Yell from FiftyFifty Brewing Co.
Beer rating:
87 out of
100 with
58 ratings
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