Stave Us From Ourselves
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- From:
- Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 10.5%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.11 | pDev: 4.38%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Aug 31, 2019
- Added:
- Mar 01, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Stave Us From Ourselves, a Barrel Aged Imperial Stout. Pushing our Mash Filter to maximum capacity, we brewed this rich and silky American-style Imperial Stout with 9 different malts to a sugar-rich Original Gravity of 26 Plato. Barrel-aged in former Heaven Hills America oak bourbon and whiskey casks, it pours a robust pitch-black with warming notes of bourbon and whiskey, with dark chocolate, oak, coffee, cherry, coconut and vanilla on the nose and palate. A balanced and complex beer.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
4.09/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.09/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Appearance - Pours a jet black with two fingers of bubbly mocha tan head that quickly dissipates.
Smell - oak, bourbon, caramel, brown sugar, coffee bean, cocoa, earthy, and leafy hops, bready malts, and earthy yeast.
Taste - oak and bourbon upfront followed by the caramel, brown sugar, coffee bean, and cocoa. The earthy and leafy hops follow suit alongside the bready malts and earthy yeast.
Mouthfeel - Medium to full bodied with light to moderate carbonation. Finishes silky smooth with the bourbon and oak lingering.
Overall - A bourbon barrel aged stout that delivers very nicely on the bourbon front. This is definitely a bold and rich brew that is worth sipping.
May 11, 2019Smell - oak, bourbon, caramel, brown sugar, coffee bean, cocoa, earthy, and leafy hops, bready malts, and earthy yeast.
Taste - oak and bourbon upfront followed by the caramel, brown sugar, coffee bean, and cocoa. The earthy and leafy hops follow suit alongside the bready malts and earthy yeast.
Mouthfeel - Medium to full bodied with light to moderate carbonation. Finishes silky smooth with the bourbon and oak lingering.
Overall - A bourbon barrel aged stout that delivers very nicely on the bourbon front. This is definitely a bold and rich brew that is worth sipping.
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
4/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Phillips Brewing 'Stave Us From Ourselves' @ 10.5% , served from a 650 ml bottle
A-pour is black from bottle to glass with a small tan head leaving a spotty lace along the tulip
S-bourbon barrel aging , sweet chocolate
T-sweet start , smooth , big , warming
MF-ok carbonation , feels full bodied
Ov-nice beer , cellar ?
prost LampertLand
Apr 28, 2019A-pour is black from bottle to glass with a small tan head leaving a spotty lace along the tulip
S-bourbon barrel aging , sweet chocolate
T-sweet start , smooth , big , warming
MF-ok carbonation , feels full bodied
Ov-nice beer , cellar ?
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.87/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.5
3.87/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle - another pun-tastic marketing blurb on the side label.
This beer pours a solid black abyss, with the scantest of amber basal edges, and two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat bubbly brown head, which leaves some random melting iceberg profile lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, some vanilla-forward rye whiskey woodiness, muddled dark berry fruity notes, coconut cream, faint cafe-au-lait, some tame anise spiciness, and ethereal earthy, musty, and dead floral hops. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a lesser toffee sweetness, a bit of free-range ashiness, some subtle Bourbon booziness, medium dark chocolate, over-sugared coffee, licorice root, and more well-understated leafy, herbal, and musky floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly low-key in its barely-there frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a nice airy creaminess evolving as things warm up a tad out of the ol' basement bar fridge (that for some reason seems to be getting colder, even though I don't change the settings). It finishes off-dry, the malt, cocoa, vanilla, and wowee sauce all making for a dessert-friendly road-pop.
Overall - this comes across as a simply-rendered big-boy BA stout, with the barrel character applied by a rather light hand. At any rate, it's full of flavour, kind of rich (and I don't mean the price - how do they sell something like this for so cheap?), and worthy of sipping on as I stare outside, which is apparently experiencing an 'air quality issue'. Ah fuck it, I'm still gonna BBQ tonight, and maybe make it worse!
Mar 21, 2019This beer pours a solid black abyss, with the scantest of amber basal edges, and two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat bubbly brown head, which leaves some random melting iceberg profile lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, some vanilla-forward rye whiskey woodiness, muddled dark berry fruity notes, coconut cream, faint cafe-au-lait, some tame anise spiciness, and ethereal earthy, musty, and dead floral hops. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a lesser toffee sweetness, a bit of free-range ashiness, some subtle Bourbon booziness, medium dark chocolate, over-sugared coffee, licorice root, and more well-understated leafy, herbal, and musky floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly low-key in its barely-there frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a nice airy creaminess evolving as things warm up a tad out of the ol' basement bar fridge (that for some reason seems to be getting colder, even though I don't change the settings). It finishes off-dry, the malt, cocoa, vanilla, and wowee sauce all making for a dessert-friendly road-pop.
Overall - this comes across as a simply-rendered big-boy BA stout, with the barrel character applied by a rather light hand. At any rate, it's full of flavour, kind of rich (and I don't mean the price - how do they sell something like this for so cheap?), and worthy of sipping on as I stare outside, which is apparently experiencing an 'air quality issue'. Ah fuck it, I'm still gonna BBQ tonight, and maybe make it worse!
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