Rainbow Cookie
Finback Brewery - Glendale
- From:
- Finback Brewery - Glendale
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Imperial Pastry Stout
- ABV:
- 10.2%
- Score:
- 90
- Avg:
- 4.15 | pDev: 9.64%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 18, 2019
- Added:
- Mar 31, 2019
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
90
Outstanding
90
Outstanding
Collaboration with Great Notion Brewing
Imperial stout with almond, vanilla, chocolate and blackberry.
Imperial stout with almond, vanilla, chocolate and blackberry.
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Reviewed by npolachek from New York
4.31/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.31/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pours jet black with good tastes of blackberry. Very drinkable beer with good ABV and solid mocha head and aroma. Definitely recommend, but rare and special.
May 08, 2019
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
2.98/5 rDev -28.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 2.75
2.98/5 rDev -28.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 2.75
Canned on 3/13/19
Pours a thick, oily black topped with a few fingers of dark mocha foam; solid longevity on the head, giving way to a uniform, dense, and creamy collar and a light web of lacing clinging to the glass.
Aromas of blackberry syrup and a hefty, sweet almond backbone are unrestrained upfront, with only light vanilla appearing in spots to even things out; strong, almost sickly sweetness bordering on medicinal.
Taste is strong with blackberry syrup and a more toned down almond nuttiness than the bouquet; chocolate, vanilla bean, and roasted barley come through in dense waves on the finish, but not enough to save this from following the aroma as more medicinal than not.
Mouthfeel brings a medium-heavy body with light carbonation and a light bit of gritty malt; sticky/mouth-coating; a more tame balance of sweetness/roastiness than the flavor profile, and finishes relatively easily against the near-overbearing sweetness.
Just too much happening here and very little balance to show for it; messy, sweet, and uncomfortably medicinal at its worst. Big pass for me on this one; it’s just not my thing.
Apr 11, 2019Pours a thick, oily black topped with a few fingers of dark mocha foam; solid longevity on the head, giving way to a uniform, dense, and creamy collar and a light web of lacing clinging to the glass.
Aromas of blackberry syrup and a hefty, sweet almond backbone are unrestrained upfront, with only light vanilla appearing in spots to even things out; strong, almost sickly sweetness bordering on medicinal.
Taste is strong with blackberry syrup and a more toned down almond nuttiness than the bouquet; chocolate, vanilla bean, and roasted barley come through in dense waves on the finish, but not enough to save this from following the aroma as more medicinal than not.
Mouthfeel brings a medium-heavy body with light carbonation and a light bit of gritty malt; sticky/mouth-coating; a more tame balance of sweetness/roastiness than the flavor profile, and finishes relatively easily against the near-overbearing sweetness.
Just too much happening here and very little balance to show for it; messy, sweet, and uncomfortably medicinal at its worst. Big pass for me on this one; it’s just not my thing.
Reviewed by metter98 from New York
4.21/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.21/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
A: The beer is jet black in color. It poured with a quarter finger high dark tan head that left a thin layer of bubbles covering the surface and some lacing down the sides of the glass.
S: Moderate to strong aromas of almond are present in the nose along with notes of vanilla and chocolate.
T: The taste follows the smell and has lots of almond flavors along with strong notes of chocolate and hints of blackberries.
M: It feels a bit more than medium-bodied and very smooth on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: In both the smell and taste, I really liked the aromas and flavors of almonds in this beer as it really was unique compared to any other one that I have tried.
Serving type: can
Apr 06, 2019S: Moderate to strong aromas of almond are present in the nose along with notes of vanilla and chocolate.
T: The taste follows the smell and has lots of almond flavors along with strong notes of chocolate and hints of blackberries.
M: It feels a bit more than medium-bodied and very smooth on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: In both the smell and taste, I really liked the aromas and flavors of almonds in this beer as it really was unique compared to any other one that I have tried.
Serving type: can
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