Timbertrain
Russell Brewing Company

TimbertrainTimbertrain
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From:
Russell Brewing Company
 
British Columbia, Canada
Style:
American Stout
ABV:
6.5%
Score:
88
Avg:
3.97 | pDev: 6.05%
Reviews:
6
Ratings:
15
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Mar 02, 2017
Added:
Dec 05, 2015
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  2
With a beautifully rich malt base and a healthy dose of Timbertrain Coffee Roasters' cold pressed espresso our brewers have created a beer that is so much more than a breakfast drink.
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Ratings by Niceroad77:
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Rated by Niceroad77 from Canada (BC)

4.04/5  rDev +1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

Feb 11, 2016
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Rated: 4.37 by cknoch from Canada (AB)

Mar 02, 2017
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Reviewed by flyerzrule from California

3.36/5  rDev -15.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Pours almost black with a thick tan head. Aroma is cream, milk, lactose, coffee, chocolate, and a touch of mint. Bitter coffee dominates the flavor and follows through to the finish. There's a slight bitterness that lingers on the tongue. There's a soda like flavor in there as well. Mouthfeel is a little thin, with moderate carbonation. I'd like to see a slightly smoother beer, with the coffee a touch less bitter but still a decent coffee stout.
May 16, 2016
 
Rated: 4.23 by BCborn from Canada (BC)

Mar 19, 2016
 
Rated: 3.75 by schopenhauerale from Arizona

Mar 12, 2016
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Reviewed by ChrisCage from Canada (AB)

4.13/5  rDev +4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
A- Pours a very dark brown/black color with a coffee colored head that isn't very thick to begin with, but the film over the brew lasts a long time! Too hard to tell what the carbonation is like and the lacing is incredibly sticky, with lots of foamy goodness sticking to the side of the glass!

S- Coffee...dark french roast to be exact, dark chocolate and blackstrap molassess are the initial aromas found on this one! Heavy black bittering malts are present, that bring about a licorice/root like Earth smell. The finish is heavy and dry smelling...mildly of dark dried fruits such as dates! Very enticing on the nostrils!

T- This is quite an astringent, dry stout indeed! The coffee is very reminiscent of espresso/americano in strength and bitterness....almost like raw ground beans! The black malt contributes a super dry/bitter component on the palate and there are hints of pure cocoa powder and pure vanilla bean tones to help sweeten things up. Very Earthy....of black potting soil and dark fruit pits.

M/O- This is rather carbonated....probably more than it was meant to be but once you swirl some of this out it becomes creamy smooth and becomes very chocolate grainy in context. This is definitely a sipping beer and while I like it, it is rich and robust and therefore I think it would be hard to call this highly drinkable....I believe this would make an excellent addition to a beef stew!
Mar 07, 2016
 
Rated: 3.84 by imfinished from Canada (BC)

Feb 14, 2016
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Reviewed by hotmailmsn from Canada (BC)

3.93/5  rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
6.5% abv, 50 ibu, 650ml bottle.
A - dark dark with nicely brown head, half finger, lacing.
S - bit grassy, roasted malt, dark chocolate, cold-pressed coffee, latte, liquorice, brown sugar, raisin.
T - too carbonated, i was expecting smoother. mediun-light body. espresso punch, n black coffee bitterness, really good on that. also got some coffee acidity, dry, the bitterness lingering, and long lasting. acidity when it gets warmer.
O - with 6.5% abv, you wouldnt expect a really big body stout. since stout already has a very strong coffee character, with the infusion of real coffee, its likely to be dominated by coffee. interesting how local roaster's coffee is infused into a beer, and indeed great blend of these two. worth to try, and support local! especially supporting two in once.
Feb 11, 2016
 
Rated: 3.68 by Jeremy7 from Canada (BC)

Jan 21, 2016
 
Rated: 4.19 by likeablepaper from Canada (AB)

Jan 12, 2016
 
Rated: 4 by Shadman from Canada (AB)

Jan 11, 2016
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Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)

4.06/5  rDev +2.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Another winner from Russell. This brew is, as promised, laden with dark roasted coffee in just the right proportions. The requisite chocolate and roasted malt that make a great stout are here, too. Overall, a delightful and well balanced coffee stout.
Jan 01, 2016
 
Rated: 4.06 by Slongie from Canada (AB)

Dec 23, 2015
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Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)

4.06/5  rDev +2.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Russell Brewing 'Timbertrain Coffee Stout' @ 6.5% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $6
A-pour is a dark cola brown from the bottle to a near black in the glass with a small fine tan head leaving a spotty lace film along the pint
S-roasted espresso
T-cold pressed roasted espresso , slight bitter coffee finish
MF-ok/decent carbonation , medium body
Ov-true breakfast beer & ok coffee stout
prost LampertLand
Dec 22, 2015
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.82/5  rDev -3.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
650ml bottle - wow, the coffee stouts and other sundry base beers are really coming fast and hard as of late. Here, Russell has employed the titular java junkies to provide the cold-pressed espresso used therein.

This beer pours a solid black hole, with very minuscule basal red cola edges, and a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and bubbly brown head, which leaves some layered stringy lace around the glass as it slowly recedes.

It smells of roasted and grainy caramel malt, bittersweet chocolate pudding, earthy artisanal coffee beans, black licorice, a weak bruised dark fruitiness, and plain leafy, weedy, and mildly musty hops. The taste is acrid cold coffee, grainy caramel malt, a free-range wet roastiness, that dark, almost sugar-free sort of chocolate, tart plums and cherries, licorice root and the dirt from which it came, and some tame earthy and dusty hop bitters.

The carbonation is nice and light and fluffy in its earnest-seeming frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, just a bit of that charred coffee thing maybe not making a few of my tastebuds particularly happy. It finishes trending dry, the caramel malt having bled out, while the bitter cocoa and java elements prance about like no one else is watching.

Russell is really bringing their A-game lately, brewing big, brash, and adventurous offerings - not that a Coffee (insert either 'Porter' or 'Stout' here, with very few exceptions) is all that brave, given their aforementioned preponderance right now. However, at least they get it more or less correct - hipster coffee, sure, but don't you dare forget about the robust stout backbone, and Martha, they have not.
Dec 20, 2015
Timbertrain from Russell Brewing Company
Beer rating: 88 out of 100 with 15 ratings