Ain't Life Strange
The Dandy Brewing Company
- From:
- The Dandy Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Russian Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 9.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.84 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jul 24, 2016
- Added:
- Jul 23, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.84/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.84/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle (no. 2 of 200 - wow!), the latest in their limited 'Dandy Edition' brews, which is labeled, yes, but the pertinent info is written in by hand (I. Stout).
This beer pours a solid, inky black, with the barest of red cola basal edges, and next to nothing in the way of head (the lack of any pop upon opening was indeed, er, strange) beyond a few disparate berm-creating bubbles, which leave zilch in the way of lace around the glass as they quickly waft off.
It smells of bittersweet chocolate, lightly roasted caramel/toffee malt, some sauced-up plum, cherry, and fig dark fruitiness, damp ash, Scandahoovian (my family's term) black licorice, a faint earthy mustiness, and very tame leafy, weedy, and gently floral hops. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, stale toffee candies, gritty cocoa powder, muddled dark orchard fruit (plums and prunes, mostly), subtly spicy anise, and more laid-back earthy, floral, and musty hoppiness.
The bubbles are egregiously AWOL after a whole three months in the bottle, the body a decent medium-heavy weight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess settling in after a short time out of the fridge. It finishes on the sweet side, just, the chocolate, caramel, and minor fruitiness in cahoots with the well-masked booze.
Overall, not a bad rendition of this Old World style, with lots of tantalizing flavours abounding. Absent, however, are the hops, which while being true to style, could have perhaps balanced this out a little bit better. At any rate, a well-made strong brew, one that the proprietors should consider adding to their cool Britannia stable, yeah?
Jul 24, 2016This beer pours a solid, inky black, with the barest of red cola basal edges, and next to nothing in the way of head (the lack of any pop upon opening was indeed, er, strange) beyond a few disparate berm-creating bubbles, which leave zilch in the way of lace around the glass as they quickly waft off.
It smells of bittersweet chocolate, lightly roasted caramel/toffee malt, some sauced-up plum, cherry, and fig dark fruitiness, damp ash, Scandahoovian (my family's term) black licorice, a faint earthy mustiness, and very tame leafy, weedy, and gently floral hops. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, stale toffee candies, gritty cocoa powder, muddled dark orchard fruit (plums and prunes, mostly), subtly spicy anise, and more laid-back earthy, floral, and musty hoppiness.
The bubbles are egregiously AWOL after a whole three months in the bottle, the body a decent medium-heavy weight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess settling in after a short time out of the fridge. It finishes on the sweet side, just, the chocolate, caramel, and minor fruitiness in cahoots with the well-masked booze.
Overall, not a bad rendition of this Old World style, with lots of tantalizing flavours abounding. Absent, however, are the hops, which while being true to style, could have perhaps balanced this out a little bit better. At any rate, a well-made strong brew, one that the proprietors should consider adding to their cool Britannia stable, yeah?
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