Winter Stout
Russell Brewing Company
- From:
- Russell Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Stout
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.75 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jan 09, 2018
- Added:
- Jan 07, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.75/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - nothing particularly seasonal about this offering, other than a mixed-up malt bill (flaked barley, oooooh!). And they still don't know the difference between 'pallet' and 'palate'.
This beer pours a fairly solid black abyss, with scant amber basal edges, and three fingers of puffy, rocky, and shiny brown head, which leaves a bit of scattered island group lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of roasted caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, day-old coffee grounds, some free-range ashiness, ethereal anise spice, and some understated earthy, musty, and floral hops. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, medium dark chocolate, unsweetened cafe-au-lait, some wet char, dry black licorice, and more tame leafy, weedy, and dead floral 'verdant' hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a small airy creaminess fighting to emerge against the hovering roastiness. It finishes trending dry, the toasted malt character predominating.
Overall - this is a pleasant enough 'winter' brew, in that I am reminded of sitting in front of a roaring fireplace, and drinking something along the lines of an Irish Dry Stout. Tasty, full-flavoured, and yeah, roasted, if I haven't mentioned that before. Worth checking out.
Jan 09, 2018This beer pours a fairly solid black abyss, with scant amber basal edges, and three fingers of puffy, rocky, and shiny brown head, which leaves a bit of scattered island group lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of roasted caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, day-old coffee grounds, some free-range ashiness, ethereal anise spice, and some understated earthy, musty, and floral hops. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, medium dark chocolate, unsweetened cafe-au-lait, some wet char, dry black licorice, and more tame leafy, weedy, and dead floral 'verdant' hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a small airy creaminess fighting to emerge against the hovering roastiness. It finishes trending dry, the toasted malt character predominating.
Overall - this is a pleasant enough 'winter' brew, in that I am reminded of sitting in front of a roaring fireplace, and drinking something along the lines of an Irish Dry Stout. Tasty, full-flavoured, and yeah, roasted, if I haven't mentioned that before. Worth checking out.
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