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Double Barrel Derivation
Side Project Brewing
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- From:
- Side Project Brewing
- Missouri, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 15%
- Score:
- 100
- Avg:
- 4.67 | pDev: 5.57%
- Reviews:
- 12
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 10, 2021
- Added:
- Jun 22, 2016
- Wants:
- 33
- Gots:
- 1
Imperial Stout aged for 2 years in 12-year-old Willett Bourbon Barrels & was then racked to Port Wine Barrels for a second maturation of 3 months. After bottling, Double Barrel Derivation conditioned and aged for 8 months before its release.
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Ratings by grover37:
Rated by grover37 from District of Columbia
4.48/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
Sep 02, 2017
4.48/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
Sep 02, 2017
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by OWK from Missouri
5/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
5/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Pours pitch black with small brown edges. Aromas of vanilla, fudge, dark fruits, toffee, port, light cocoa nibs like notes. Taste has lots of port, grapey notes, vanilla, dark fruits, tannins, light tartness, dry finish.
Jan 15, 2021Reviewed by gibgink from Missouri
5/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
5/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
5 oz. pour during the Side Project Brewery 1 year anniversary celebration. What a treat! There is a sweetness to this brew, but I can also pick up on the Port barrel addition, which is crazy considering how little time the beer was in that particular barrel.
Dec 21, 2017Rated by dleiner from New York
4.15/5 rDev -11.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.15/5 rDev -11.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Too sweet
Aug 27, 2017Reviewed by Luscious_Malfoy from Illinois
4.56/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.56/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
poured from a 750mL black-waxed bottle into a stemmed bulb glass. pours inky black with minimal foam and just a few bubbles here and there. chocolate, bourbon, port-like dark fruits (plums, raisins and cherries) all on the nose. taste follows but is dominated by the port finishing barrels. full mouthfeel but definitely leaning thinning in the context of SP barrel-aged imperial stouts. kind of crazy how much the port dominates when it was only 3 months compared to 24 months in bourbon barrels. you’d think it would be a little more balanced between the two or that the port would be faint but that’s definitely not the case. perhaps it’s the age on this bottle. either way, glad to have tried. sold double barrel-aged imperial stout.
Aug 26, 2017Reviewed by Stevedore from Oregon
4.53/5 rDev -3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
4.53/5 rDev -3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
Beer rating number 3000. Why not this one? 750ml bottle, with black wax, served on-site at Side Project Brewery in Maplewood, Missouri, in a stemmed glass.
Pours a dark black body, oily with thick and hefty brown legs. Half finger mocha head, drops fairly quickly, not much lacing. Smell is heavy creamy milk chocolate with a double dose of cocoa powder and dark chocolate, rounded out by a slightly smoky bourbon. The fortified wine provides a hefty dose of sweetness on top of this as well. Vanillin, oak and bit of earth rounds the nose out. Flavour is essentially quite sweet; fortified wine makes this a sipper, with milk chocolate, vanillin, oak, bourbon, touch of smoke, chocolate and cocoa adding a lot to it. But at the end of it, this is a very sweet beer with a lot of attenuation. It's a wonderful, full bodied beer with a lot of complexity going on, appropriately carbonated, and works great as a dessert beer. I do think the barrel presence is extremely well done and nuanced, and 4oz is going to be more than enough for most people.
Aug 21, 2017Pours a dark black body, oily with thick and hefty brown legs. Half finger mocha head, drops fairly quickly, not much lacing. Smell is heavy creamy milk chocolate with a double dose of cocoa powder and dark chocolate, rounded out by a slightly smoky bourbon. The fortified wine provides a hefty dose of sweetness on top of this as well. Vanillin, oak and bit of earth rounds the nose out. Flavour is essentially quite sweet; fortified wine makes this a sipper, with milk chocolate, vanillin, oak, bourbon, touch of smoke, chocolate and cocoa adding a lot to it. But at the end of it, this is a very sweet beer with a lot of attenuation. It's a wonderful, full bodied beer with a lot of complexity going on, appropriately carbonated, and works great as a dessert beer. I do think the barrel presence is extremely well done and nuanced, and 4oz is going to be more than enough for most people.
Double Barrel Derivation from Side Project Brewing
Beer rating:
100 out of
100 with
55 ratings
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