Stout Impériale Russe à l'Érable 2018
Brasserie Dunham
- From:
- Brasserie Dunham
- Quebec, Canada
- Style:
- Russian Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 11.3%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.78 | pDev: 11.11%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Apr 28, 2020
- Added:
- Mar 26, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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RIS with maple syrup and hazelnuts.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by TheDoctor from Canada (QC)
3.55/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.55/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Serving: Bottle
Bottled: Fall 2018 (Consumed Apr-19-2020)
It pours thick pitch black with a billowing, creamy brown head. Good
retention, rings of lacing. Aroma is leather, figs, umami (from oxidation methinks). The flavor follows
along with coffee grounds, some woodsy notes, the same umami flavor and a
herbal-medicinal hop bite at the finish.
It is a pretty smooth beer excepting the final bite. Moderate+ carbonation,
a touch of sweetness but mainly roasty. The maple doesn't really come
through unless it is as the woody mineral-ey kind of character I get in the
flavor. I think that well could be it. All told this is a decent beer. If
I'm being honest, I have never been nuts about nor have I sought out big,
viscous, roasty, molassesey stouts so it could be that. However I've some
some amazing ones that I loved. All of my drinking experience with that
type of beer has told me that (at least for my tastes) age is not the
universal good idea that some make it out to be for beers like this. This
is an example where I think the age has indeed mellowed it, which I wanted.
However, there is some oxidation, which I didn't want. However, the
oxidation has definitely made it a more complex beer, which I like.
However, there is not much maple and it could be a little sweeter and less
harsh. So at the end of the day I am left with a pretty tasty beer that I
will finish and enjoy, but also with a lesson (THAT I ALREADY KNEW,
DAGNABBIT) about striking a balance between patience and forgetfulness.
4.5...3.75...3.25...3.75...3.5
Apr 28, 2020Bottled: Fall 2018 (Consumed Apr-19-2020)
It pours thick pitch black with a billowing, creamy brown head. Good
retention, rings of lacing. Aroma is leather, figs, umami (from oxidation methinks). The flavor follows
along with coffee grounds, some woodsy notes, the same umami flavor and a
herbal-medicinal hop bite at the finish.
It is a pretty smooth beer excepting the final bite. Moderate+ carbonation,
a touch of sweetness but mainly roasty. The maple doesn't really come
through unless it is as the woody mineral-ey kind of character I get in the
flavor. I think that well could be it. All told this is a decent beer. If
I'm being honest, I have never been nuts about nor have I sought out big,
viscous, roasty, molassesey stouts so it could be that. However I've some
some amazing ones that I loved. All of my drinking experience with that
type of beer has told me that (at least for my tastes) age is not the
universal good idea that some make it out to be for beers like this. This
is an example where I think the age has indeed mellowed it, which I wanted.
However, there is some oxidation, which I didn't want. However, the
oxidation has definitely made it a more complex beer, which I like.
However, there is not much maple and it could be a little sweeter and less
harsh. So at the end of the day I am left with a pretty tasty beer that I
will finish and enjoy, but also with a lesson (THAT I ALREADY KNEW,
DAGNABBIT) about striking a balance between patience and forgetfulness.
4.5...3.75...3.25...3.75...3.5
Reviewed by papposilenus from New Hampshire
4.37/5 rDev +15.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.37/5 rDev +15.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
From a 750ml bottle, dated 10/31/18. Served in a tulip.
Pours a sort of used motor oil-sludgy brown, opaque in the glass, entirely without highlights, and with an epic two-plus finger chocolate colored, soft and foamy crown. Retention is excellent, leaving a thick sudsy cap and a complex webbery of fat sticky lacing which looks weirdly like some exotically patterned batik.
The aroma is biting, roasty, toasty malty. I can definitely smell maple but it’s not sweet syrupy maple, it’s the sharp, acrid, earthy smell of raw sap or scraped bark
Taste is much as expected, thick bitter coffee with heavy cream and tree bark. There is very little residual sweetness and the maple, to the extent I can detect it at all, is expressed more as bitter crushed leaf and scraped bark. And to cap it, at the finish, there’s a dry powdered ginger spicy warmth.
Feel is velvety smooth, creamy, unctuous, and thick. There is adequate carbonation to lighten the body but it’s so hefty that the bubbles have to fight to get through it.
Overall, a very-most-excellent imperial stout! I’ll confess, I was expecting it to be sweet and cloying and was prepared to take a few sips and pour the rest out (which may partly account for my high scoring).Instead, it turned out to be both bitter and dry as well as fat and creamy, a combination I find super appealing. My palate could be mistaken but much of the perceived bitterness here, I think, is less from the hopping than from the character of the maple after the sugar has been fermented. Or both. Whichever, it works for me.
Aug 31, 2019Pours a sort of used motor oil-sludgy brown, opaque in the glass, entirely without highlights, and with an epic two-plus finger chocolate colored, soft and foamy crown. Retention is excellent, leaving a thick sudsy cap and a complex webbery of fat sticky lacing which looks weirdly like some exotically patterned batik.
The aroma is biting, roasty, toasty malty. I can definitely smell maple but it’s not sweet syrupy maple, it’s the sharp, acrid, earthy smell of raw sap or scraped bark
Taste is much as expected, thick bitter coffee with heavy cream and tree bark. There is very little residual sweetness and the maple, to the extent I can detect it at all, is expressed more as bitter crushed leaf and scraped bark. And to cap it, at the finish, there’s a dry powdered ginger spicy warmth.
Feel is velvety smooth, creamy, unctuous, and thick. There is adequate carbonation to lighten the body but it’s so hefty that the bubbles have to fight to get through it.
Overall, a very-most-excellent imperial stout! I’ll confess, I was expecting it to be sweet and cloying and was prepared to take a few sips and pour the rest out (which may partly account for my high scoring).Instead, it turned out to be both bitter and dry as well as fat and creamy, a combination I find super appealing. My palate could be mistaken but much of the perceived bitterness here, I think, is less from the hopping than from the character of the maple after the sugar has been fermented. Or both. Whichever, it works for me.
Reviewed by flipper2gv from Canada (QC)
3.43/5 rDev -9.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.5
3.43/5 rDev -9.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.5
A: Pours thick pitch black with a mocha color head. The head is very creamy looking. Lacing is good and retention is ok.
S: Smell is much less than what I expected. There are very little roasted notes (some light roast coffee), tons of vanilla and maple. Some metallic notes. And that's pretty much it. It smells good, but it isn't complex much.
T: Where the smell wasn't very strong with the roasted notes, the taste is all about this. Tons of very dark roasted espresso notes to the point of bitterness. There are quite a bit of vegetal hops and light citrus notes from the hops too. Lots of maple and vanilla notes. Slightly sweet overall. The hops really don't fit the rest of the flavor profile of this beer and just stands out with too much unpleasant bitterness.
M: Super heavy and super smooth. Really good for the genre.
O: This is an alright beer. The biggest problem is the hop profile that doesn't fit the rest of the beer. I have no idea why they thought a maple beer should be hops heavy as they are not flavors that fit very well IMO. It's a shame because the rest of the beer is very good and only the hopping process seems to be the problem.
Mar 26, 2019S: Smell is much less than what I expected. There are very little roasted notes (some light roast coffee), tons of vanilla and maple. Some metallic notes. And that's pretty much it. It smells good, but it isn't complex much.
T: Where the smell wasn't very strong with the roasted notes, the taste is all about this. Tons of very dark roasted espresso notes to the point of bitterness. There are quite a bit of vegetal hops and light citrus notes from the hops too. Lots of maple and vanilla notes. Slightly sweet overall. The hops really don't fit the rest of the flavor profile of this beer and just stands out with too much unpleasant bitterness.
M: Super heavy and super smooth. Really good for the genre.
O: This is an alright beer. The biggest problem is the hop profile that doesn't fit the rest of the beer. I have no idea why they thought a maple beer should be hops heavy as they are not flavors that fit very well IMO. It's a shame because the rest of the beer is very good and only the hopping process seems to be the problem.
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