Dogs of War: War Russell 2024
Torrside Brewing
- From:
- Torrside Brewing
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- Russian Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 8.2%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.44 | pDev: 6.53%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 18, 2026
- Added:
- Oct 11, 2024
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by EmperorBevis from England
4.74/5 rDev +6.8%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.74/5 rDev +6.8%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Big bottle conditioned bomber shared at Steve’s house as a celebration of not having Kidney damage due to excessive sugar intake
Pours a very dark brown body with fleeting off white head
Aroma is slightly peaty whisky
Flavour is sherry and Dundee cake
Mar 18, 2026Pours a very dark brown body with fleeting off white head
Aroma is slightly peaty whisky
Flavour is sherry and Dundee cake
Reviewed by JonnoWillsteed from England
4.15/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.15/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Blind-tasted ex name and ABV% until after rating/review completed and posted... I learn more and it's more fun this way...
L- Good grief!! One of the darker beers I've seen (x-ref: Icelandic Lava Beer, and other of their heeavy stouts]. Even the bubbles on top are amongst the darkest tan I recall seeing on a beer. Bubbles are quite minimal and a thin large-bubble ring, but counter-'priorexperientually' linger for a few minutes. This is 'just' 8.2% so maybe the barreling is prejudicing CO2 in the glass.
S- Liquor barrel, I don't sense whisky, more brandy. Hmmm unsure, it also has a slight deep roast smokey-ness to it.
T- Takes a moment to build then BOOM! Yes I think that's a brandy barrel. Notable charring and very deep flavour, tailing off with minor ABV% glow on the palate, or something else dry/zingy giving the same sense as higher ABV can. There is something also a touch sour here that I cannot pin down. Given it's intensity it's very suppable indeed, ie dangerous hehe...
F- It's full-on pungent and quite well beyond its 'modest' 8.2%. If not known I'd guess say 10%. To note: It is nowhere near 'sweet', it has some richness, well of course, it has to with this pungency. But that is countered by the dry aspects mentioned^. It's very clever brewing.
O- It seems that on the day I reviewed the '23 version I wasn't much taken by it. This one (blind) seems much more impressive. I've just topped up my glass and even the max 1cm stream of beer going in ex bottle appeared impenetraby black as night. I would prefer more saturated CO2 ie that I then get to feel on my palate, but trust Torrside that with their recipe/barreling this is not achievable. So be aware that this (to me) is notably low CO2 in the mouth.
The lable is the same exquisite and enchanting canine portrait as uploaded here on the 2023 version of this beer, excl one minor variation: The text on this one now reads: 'Dogs of war 2024'. I'm enjoying this a lot, half-way I find I'm slowing down as it begins to warm a touch. Maybe one to share with a buddy? I don't think this is really one that people repeat buy, not least due to it's limited nature and price. It's more an exploration of the fringes of what is possible when the cost of production and 'societal norms + expectations' perhaps matters less.
Bought from Trembling Madness York for home delivery. £15/bottle, ouch, I only get to pop such beers after having a reeeally good week at work, as a treat to self. Actually 2 bottles of the 100 retail bottles for this years release #47 and #49 (this one), jeez there is a thought. But sometimes the pleasure of testing what good brewers are conjouring up makes it worth it... 750ml capped bottle BB 21/04/30.
Edit post reading lable for: Goddammit!! it's whisky not brandy haha, shows how poor I am at IDing spirit barrels....
Oct 12, 2024L- Good grief!! One of the darker beers I've seen (x-ref: Icelandic Lava Beer, and other of their heeavy stouts]. Even the bubbles on top are amongst the darkest tan I recall seeing on a beer. Bubbles are quite minimal and a thin large-bubble ring, but counter-'priorexperientually' linger for a few minutes. This is 'just' 8.2% so maybe the barreling is prejudicing CO2 in the glass.
S- Liquor barrel, I don't sense whisky, more brandy. Hmmm unsure, it also has a slight deep roast smokey-ness to it.
T- Takes a moment to build then BOOM! Yes I think that's a brandy barrel. Notable charring and very deep flavour, tailing off with minor ABV% glow on the palate, or something else dry/zingy giving the same sense as higher ABV can. There is something also a touch sour here that I cannot pin down. Given it's intensity it's very suppable indeed, ie dangerous hehe...
F- It's full-on pungent and quite well beyond its 'modest' 8.2%. If not known I'd guess say 10%. To note: It is nowhere near 'sweet', it has some richness, well of course, it has to with this pungency. But that is countered by the dry aspects mentioned^. It's very clever brewing.
O- It seems that on the day I reviewed the '23 version I wasn't much taken by it. This one (blind) seems much more impressive. I've just topped up my glass and even the max 1cm stream of beer going in ex bottle appeared impenetraby black as night. I would prefer more saturated CO2 ie that I then get to feel on my palate, but trust Torrside that with their recipe/barreling this is not achievable. So be aware that this (to me) is notably low CO2 in the mouth.
The lable is the same exquisite and enchanting canine portrait as uploaded here on the 2023 version of this beer, excl one minor variation: The text on this one now reads: 'Dogs of war 2024'. I'm enjoying this a lot, half-way I find I'm slowing down as it begins to warm a touch. Maybe one to share with a buddy? I don't think this is really one that people repeat buy, not least due to it's limited nature and price. It's more an exploration of the fringes of what is possible when the cost of production and 'societal norms + expectations' perhaps matters less.
Bought from Trembling Madness York for home delivery. £15/bottle, ouch, I only get to pop such beers after having a reeeally good week at work, as a treat to self. Actually 2 bottles of the 100 retail bottles for this years release #47 and #49 (this one), jeez there is a thought. But sometimes the pleasure of testing what good brewers are conjouring up makes it worth it... 750ml capped bottle BB 21/04/30.
Edit post reading lable for: Goddammit!! it's whisky not brandy haha, shows how poor I am at IDing spirit barrels....
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