Thrill Rider
The Bruery
- From:
- The Bruery
- California, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 13.7%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.42 | pDev: 2.26%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 08, 2026
- Added:
- Jul 15, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Bourbon barrel aged imperial stout w/coconut, cocoa nibs and almonds
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Sinfull from New York
4.53/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.53/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Black color with a nice beige head. The aroma brings cocoa, chocolate, almonds, and a touch of coconut. The flavor is rich and soft, with moderate sweetness and warming bourbon notes toward the finish. Really well done
Mar 08, 2026
Reviewed by vette2006c5r from Minnesota
4.48/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.48/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Thrill Rider pours black, with a medium-sized, long-lasting tan head. The aroma has big notes of chocolate, almonds, and coconuts. The flavor is sweeter, chocolate, almonds, coconut, very candy bar-like. Good feel. Overall, a big and rich stout, very candy-like.
Dec 25, 2025
Reviewed by Roguer from Connecticut
4.26/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.26/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Chocolate is definitely the feature in this one, despite coconut getting first billing. The coconut is complementary, and really only noticeable if you know to look for it. The bourbon is mostly restrained, but there is a semi-sweet, grape/cherry-like tartness that I mostly attribute to the bourbon (and perhaps the coconut in a roundabout way).
Full bodied, rich, thick, and nearly chewy. Just a tiny bit of heat, but it's a really smooth drinking beer. Overall a delicious home run, if not anything particularly novel at this point.
Sep 08, 2025Full bodied, rich, thick, and nearly chewy. Just a tiny bit of heat, but it's a really smooth drinking beer. Overall a delicious home run, if not anything particularly novel at this point.
Reviewed by Treyliff from West Virginia
4.41/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.41/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
On tap at Bruery
A- pours black in color with a one finger foamy khaki head that reduces to a ring
S- creamy coconut, chocolate, oaky bourbon, slightly nutty
T- opens with creamy coconut and dark chocolate. Mid-palate brings out a cinnamon note as well as the barrel, adding oak and bourbon, as well as caramel. The finish gives more creamy coconut and chocolate with a bourbon linger
M- medium body with moderate carbonation leads to a creamy mouthfeel that continues into a warming finish
Jul 15, 2025A- pours black in color with a one finger foamy khaki head that reduces to a ring
S- creamy coconut, chocolate, oaky bourbon, slightly nutty
T- opens with creamy coconut and dark chocolate. Mid-palate brings out a cinnamon note as well as the barrel, adding oak and bourbon, as well as caramel. The finish gives more creamy coconut and chocolate with a bourbon linger
M- medium body with moderate carbonation leads to a creamy mouthfeel that continues into a warming finish
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