Brews Brothers Need You Tonight
Parallel 49 Brewing Company
- From:
- Parallel 49 Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.04 | pDev: 1.49%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 01, 2018
- Added:
- Apr 09, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
4.03/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.03/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
341ml bottle, part of this year's (Vol. 4) Brews Brothers mixed 12 pack, the theme being 'New Wave'. A collaboration with The Parkside Brewery from Port Moody - my word, how many craft breweries can that town sustain? Anyways, the style is a coffee Imperial stout, with the song association taking me back to hockey road trips back in the 1980s. Nuff said.
This beer pours a fairly solid black, with subtle basal amber edges, and three fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat bubbly brown head, which leaves some decent thickly webbed lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, a bit of free-range ashiness, bittersweet cocoa powder, faint cafe-au-lait, a mild dark orchard fruitiness, some tame anise spice, and very plain earthy, musty, and floral hops. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, medium dark chocolate wafers, rich artisanal coffee grounds, a bit of cold cream, muted bruised pome fruit, and more understated leafy, floral, and herbal green hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and more or less smooth, with a wee airy creaminess seeping in once some time is spent out of the ol' cellar frigo. It finishes off-dry, the caramel, cocoa, coffee, and attendant milkiness the order of the lingering masses.
Overall - this does indeed come across in a manner nearly as sexy as Michael Hutchence was before, well, y'all know. Anyways, it masks its 16-proof booze factor with both style and aplomb, making for a rather pleasant post-prandial quaff.
Apr 12, 2018This beer pours a fairly solid black, with subtle basal amber edges, and three fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat bubbly brown head, which leaves some decent thickly webbed lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, a bit of free-range ashiness, bittersweet cocoa powder, faint cafe-au-lait, a mild dark orchard fruitiness, some tame anise spice, and very plain earthy, musty, and floral hops. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, medium dark chocolate wafers, rich artisanal coffee grounds, a bit of cold cream, muted bruised pome fruit, and more understated leafy, floral, and herbal green hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and more or less smooth, with a wee airy creaminess seeping in once some time is spent out of the ol' cellar frigo. It finishes off-dry, the caramel, cocoa, coffee, and attendant milkiness the order of the lingering masses.
Overall - this does indeed come across in a manner nearly as sexy as Michael Hutchence was before, well, y'all know. Anyways, it masks its 16-proof booze factor with both style and aplomb, making for a rather pleasant post-prandial quaff.
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