VII - 7th Anniversary Blend
Triple Crossing Brewing
- From:
- Triple Crossing Brewing
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 12%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.31 | pDev: 3.25%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 12, 2022
- Added:
- Apr 28, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Just over a year ago now, we remarked at the unbelievable situation that was the beginning of an entirely new way of getting our beer into your hands due to the circumstances…. And it somehow feels, in many ways, as though we’re still stuck in time.
However, as we’ve learned through this last year, it ain’t all waiting on us, and gorgeous inky black stout will, if we let it, emerge from barrels come hell or high water. The combination of our purpose-built Imperial Stout grist, a tightly controlled fermentation, whiskey soaked charred deep dark oak, and the end all variable of patience, has again gotten us to this point.
Our annual anniversary stout returns as VII, comprised of just 4 whiskey barrels with an average age of 18 months of rest, blended together in one of our 10bbl brite tanks, and then lagered for another 2 months, letting the whole thing patiently round itself out.
We taste impressions of bourbon-soaked devils food brownie batter, dark French roast coffee, sweet cinnamon burnt brown sugar, with hints of leather and pipe tobacco.
However, as we’ve learned through this last year, it ain’t all waiting on us, and gorgeous inky black stout will, if we let it, emerge from barrels come hell or high water. The combination of our purpose-built Imperial Stout grist, a tightly controlled fermentation, whiskey soaked charred deep dark oak, and the end all variable of patience, has again gotten us to this point.
Our annual anniversary stout returns as VII, comprised of just 4 whiskey barrels with an average age of 18 months of rest, blended together in one of our 10bbl brite tanks, and then lagered for another 2 months, letting the whole thing patiently round itself out.
We taste impressions of bourbon-soaked devils food brownie batter, dark French roast coffee, sweet cinnamon burnt brown sugar, with hints of leather and pipe tobacco.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by HattedClassic from Virginia
4.34/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.34/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
The beer pours very little brown head that dissipates very quickly while the beer itself is a dark chocolate black with a chocolate syrup like appearance and a nice oily sheen.
The smell is pretty good. It has a good mixture of a sweet and sugary chocolate with hints of bourbon and a light coffee note in the finish. There is also the vanilla note and a light alcohol mixed in there as well.
The taste is delicious and indulgent. It starts with a sweet and sugary chocolate mixed with bourbon and immediately followed by a vanilla note. After the beer warms up a bit, a coffee note comes out as well with a slight alcohol note in the finish.
The feel is good. It has a medium heavy body that is extremely silky with a nice chocolate syrup like feel to it. There is very little carbonation.
Overall, this is a pretty good beer that remains consistently delicious from start to finish and worth getting when available. You can really taste the effort Triple Crossing put into it.
Jan 08, 2022The smell is pretty good. It has a good mixture of a sweet and sugary chocolate with hints of bourbon and a light coffee note in the finish. There is also the vanilla note and a light alcohol mixed in there as well.
The taste is delicious and indulgent. It starts with a sweet and sugary chocolate mixed with bourbon and immediately followed by a vanilla note. After the beer warms up a bit, a coffee note comes out as well with a slight alcohol note in the finish.
The feel is good. It has a medium heavy body that is extremely silky with a nice chocolate syrup like feel to it. There is very little carbonation.
Overall, this is a pretty good beer that remains consistently delicious from start to finish and worth getting when available. You can really taste the effort Triple Crossing put into it.
Reviewed by Sheppard from Massachusetts
4.06/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.06/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Pours an ink jet black with this reddish brown head that quickly dissipates. Bourbon, vanilla, dried cherry aroma on the nose. It is quite silky and chocolatey and the slight sting of booze is ever present. There's also a dried fruit leather note on the finish which helps to limit the presence of the heat in this beer. Like I said, it's super silky, with some depth and thickness in body, but not something I would categorize as thicc. The legs on this are quite long post sip as well. This is nice but not the best BA stout I've had from a Virginia brewery this month (Ocelot Painted Black).
Jun 12, 2021
Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
4.5/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
This one pours a fairly dark black color, with a small head, and not much lacing.
This one smells like spicy and caramelly bourbon, vanilla, dark chocolate, tobacco, oak, and coffee.
This is really nice stuff. It's pretty burly, with not a ton of sweetness. I get some vanilla and brown sugar, but there's a deep and gnarly oak and bourbon character - tobacco, char, oak, bittersweet caramel - that I really like. There's also coffee, chocolate, and brownies.
This is medium bodied, with no real booziness to it, and a very nice drinkability for the style.
Triple Crossing is most certainly the most impressive brewery in Richmond, VA.
Jun 06, 2021This one smells like spicy and caramelly bourbon, vanilla, dark chocolate, tobacco, oak, and coffee.
This is really nice stuff. It's pretty burly, with not a ton of sweetness. I get some vanilla and brown sugar, but there's a deep and gnarly oak and bourbon character - tobacco, char, oak, bittersweet caramel - that I really like. There's also coffee, chocolate, and brownies.
This is medium bodied, with no real booziness to it, and a very nice drinkability for the style.
Triple Crossing is most certainly the most impressive brewery in Richmond, VA.
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