Who Gets To Lick the Whisk?
Refined Fool Brewing Co.
- From:
- Refined Fool Brewing Co.
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.54 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 10, 2022
- Added:
- Mar 28, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.54/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.54/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Bomber from the brewery; no packaging date. Served slightly chilled.
Pours a deep cola brown colour with ruddy highlights; gathered atop is an inch of soapy, beige-coloured head that fades within two minutes or so. A frothy collar of suds lives on, with minimal lace deposition. Not a lot of action on the nose, at least not for a strong stout: a little sweet, with baker's chocolate, ash, subtle black cherry and molasses. Faintly nutty... hazelnut, maybe?
Not bad, but it doesn't come together very well - cacao and cherry at the forefront, mostly sweet with a little cherry juice tartness. Roasted malts, molasses, dark chocolate and chicory towards the finish, with bittersweet chocolate and cherry lingering into an odd, persistent, coppery metallic aftertaste that made me salivate. My palate adjusted over the course of the glass, but the first few sips were strange indeed. Medium in body, with moderate carbonation that provides some bite - definitely on the thin side for a 'black forest cake stout', and surprisingly light for 8%. I'll finish this bottle, but a tallboy would've been plenty.
Final Grade: 3.54, a serviceable B grade. A black forest cake stout needs to be decadent and satiating, but I honestly don't think either of those descriptors really apply to Who Gets To Lick the Whisk? A passable novelty stout at best, with a few kinks that need to be worked out before I'd recommend it with any enthusiasm: more chocolate, more body, and maybe a little more roastiness from the stout itself. I don't regret the purchase, but they brew other stouts and porters that I'd prefer over this one.
Apr 10, 2022Pours a deep cola brown colour with ruddy highlights; gathered atop is an inch of soapy, beige-coloured head that fades within two minutes or so. A frothy collar of suds lives on, with minimal lace deposition. Not a lot of action on the nose, at least not for a strong stout: a little sweet, with baker's chocolate, ash, subtle black cherry and molasses. Faintly nutty... hazelnut, maybe?
Not bad, but it doesn't come together very well - cacao and cherry at the forefront, mostly sweet with a little cherry juice tartness. Roasted malts, molasses, dark chocolate and chicory towards the finish, with bittersweet chocolate and cherry lingering into an odd, persistent, coppery metallic aftertaste that made me salivate. My palate adjusted over the course of the glass, but the first few sips were strange indeed. Medium in body, with moderate carbonation that provides some bite - definitely on the thin side for a 'black forest cake stout', and surprisingly light for 8%. I'll finish this bottle, but a tallboy would've been plenty.
Final Grade: 3.54, a serviceable B grade. A black forest cake stout needs to be decadent and satiating, but I honestly don't think either of those descriptors really apply to Who Gets To Lick the Whisk? A passable novelty stout at best, with a few kinks that need to be worked out before I'd recommend it with any enthusiasm: more chocolate, more body, and maybe a little more roastiness from the stout itself. I don't regret the purchase, but they brew other stouts and porters that I'd prefer over this one.
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