Back To Black: Russian Imperial Stout
Eight Degrees Brewing
- From:
- Eight Degrees Brewing
- Ireland
- Style:
- Russian Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 9%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.06 | pDev: 7.88%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 07, 2014
- Added:
- Dec 09, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
NO SCORE
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This unorthodox Russian stout is like an iron fist in a velvet glove. The dark crystal, chocolate malt and roasted barley are balanced with intense hop bitterness, creating a burnt caramel and espresso aroma with rounded rum and raisin notes. Enjoy, sipped slowly, as an after dinner digestif.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by StJamesGate from New York
3.94/5 rDev -3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.94/5 rDev -3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Pours an oily garnet-jet with umber froth that stays.
Dark roast coffee, fig, tobacco and ash on the nose.
Liquorice, black grape, and molasses, some powdery dark cocoa truffle, a sweet roasty bite, then big pine tar hops to finish.
Bong water black malt end and raisiny linger.
Medium edging towards full, well chewy, and round.
Label mentions "intense hop bitterness" so this is presumably going the US route, which is a well-trodden path. And so: the notes are all in the right places, it's easy enough to sip, there are no obvious flaws... But it takes more to stand out in the crowded RIS field.
Solid but not extraordinary.
Dec 24, 2013Dark roast coffee, fig, tobacco and ash on the nose.
Liquorice, black grape, and molasses, some powdery dark cocoa truffle, a sweet roasty bite, then big pine tar hops to finish.
Bong water black malt end and raisiny linger.
Medium edging towards full, well chewy, and round.
Label mentions "intense hop bitterness" so this is presumably going the US route, which is a well-trodden path. And so: the notes are all in the right places, it's easy enough to sip, there are no obvious flaws... But it takes more to stand out in the crowded RIS field.
Solid but not extraordinary.
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