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Idle Hands Craft Ales
- From:
- Idle Hands Craft Ales
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 9%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.17 | pDev: 4.32%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 14, 2018
- Added:
- Jan 07, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by papposilenus from New Hampshire
4.3/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.3/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
From a 750ml bottle, dated October 2017. Served in a tulip while following the brewer's instructions printed on the label to drink in front of a fire on a cold day.
Pours a dark chestnut-black with three fingers of lush, sturdy, chocolate frappe-like creamy foam, all holey, like a big ol' swiss cheese in profile. Slowly subsides into floating islets of shaving cream with thick, tattered curtains of lacing up the sides.
Sweet, fudgy nose of cocoa krispies and cappuccino with a faint tannic and mineral tang.
Taste is fudgy without a lot of sweetness. Lots of nice, dusty, dry and bitter roasted chocolate malt and a little oak tannin. All about the roast and the chocolate but some vanilla, coffee sweetened with molasses and the barest hint of tree leaves and orange peel sneak in at the finish.
Feel is clean and smooth, medium-light body to the style with ample carbonation and very light astringency.
Overall, an excellent, mildly sweet AIS. Not a heck of a lot of barrel character in my estimation, in fact no guess as to what type of barrel it may have been, but the robust roastiness and clean mouthfeel more than compensates. I had to do a double-take at the abv - it was easy to forget to sip this and my glass was empty way more quickly than it had ought to have been.
Jan 14, 2018Pours a dark chestnut-black with three fingers of lush, sturdy, chocolate frappe-like creamy foam, all holey, like a big ol' swiss cheese in profile. Slowly subsides into floating islets of shaving cream with thick, tattered curtains of lacing up the sides.
Sweet, fudgy nose of cocoa krispies and cappuccino with a faint tannic and mineral tang.
Taste is fudgy without a lot of sweetness. Lots of nice, dusty, dry and bitter roasted chocolate malt and a little oak tannin. All about the roast and the chocolate but some vanilla, coffee sweetened with molasses and the barest hint of tree leaves and orange peel sneak in at the finish.
Feel is clean and smooth, medium-light body to the style with ample carbonation and very light astringency.
Overall, an excellent, mildly sweet AIS. Not a heck of a lot of barrel character in my estimation, in fact no guess as to what type of barrel it may have been, but the robust roastiness and clean mouthfeel more than compensates. I had to do a double-take at the abv - it was easy to forget to sip this and my glass was empty way more quickly than it had ought to have been.
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