I Must Break You - Maple Syrup Barrel-Aged - Blueberry
Imperial Oak Brewing

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From:
Imperial Oak Brewing
 
Illinois, United States
Style:
Imperial Pastry Stout
ABV:
10.5%
Score:
+8 ratings needed
Avg:
3.86 | pDev: 9.84%
Ratings:
2 | reviews: 2
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Apr 01, 2020
Added:
Nov 04, 2019
Wants:
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Gots:
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Recent ratings and reviews.
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Reviewed by stortore from Illinois

4.24/5  rDev +9.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
12 ounce can into a snifter. Released 10/26/19, had 12/26/19.

Pours a dark brown, thick looking and opaque, with a quarter inch head and some foamy cling. Aromas of some bourbon, char, roasted malt, maple, blueberries, vanilla, oak. Flavors of bourbon, maple, blueberries, malt, oak, chocolate, light cocoa, a little molasses. Smooth, a very good full body, well carbonated.

The maple/bourbon barrels and the blueberries really show well. This a step up from the straight maple/bourbon barrel version that was tap only this year.
Apr 01, 2020
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Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois

3.48/5  rDev -9.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Had on tap. Viscous black with a thick tan collar. Smell has thick roasted malt, chocolate, toasted maple, oak, tons of bourbon booze, and blueberry that is a touch sour. Taste is a boozy mess, so much bourbon booze with smoke, maple, oak, and earth, but then finishes slightly sour with the candy sweet blueberry, to the point where I worry about barrel infection. Very harsh: boozy to slightly sour in both taste and feel. Otherwise heavy, robust, and powerfully dark feeling. I have long held imperial oak in high regard but this is another recent miss
Nov 04, 2019