Cease To Love
Second Line Brewing
- From:
- Second Line Brewing
- Louisiana, United States
- Style:
- Russian Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 8.2%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.58 | pDev: 12.57%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 11, 2020
- Added:
- May 08, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.69/5 rDev -24.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
2.69/5 rDev -24.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
$1.99 USD for a bomber at a beer store in New Orleans, LA - tough to pass up at that price even though the "packed on" date is 5/16/17...
"Bourbon barrel aged Russian imperial stout with toasted coconut." 9.8% ABV. 61 IBU.
The coconut is faint at best, especially considering it's also bourbon barrel aged (I'd expect a good bourbon barrel character to come replete with subtle toasted coconut, and an imperial stout also brewed with the same flavour should boast far more of it than this does). The base stout is rudimentary, throwing out generic dark malts and concomitant sweetness along with basic chocolate malt flavour. Pretty boring, shallow, and simple in the contemporary imperial stout landscape.
Barrel character is lacklustre; the bourbon is barely present, lacking any coconut, oak, rich barrel sugars, or the like. I do get a hint of vanillin, but it's vague and subdued. I don't know that I'd peg this for barrel aged in a blind tasting, and the lack of an age statement/info on the label regarding how long the beer spent in barrels doesn't inspire confidence the brewers committed to the bourbon barrel.
Old Rasputin and Victory Storm King are both superior more intricate expressions of the RIS style without any barrel aging or gimmicky additives. That this is better priced on a $ per oz basis is likely due only to its age, though this ought to have aged well over ~3 years if it was a good RIS to begin with. Rather forgettable across the board.
C- (2.69) / BELOW AVERAGE
Feb 11, 2020"Bourbon barrel aged Russian imperial stout with toasted coconut." 9.8% ABV. 61 IBU.
The coconut is faint at best, especially considering it's also bourbon barrel aged (I'd expect a good bourbon barrel character to come replete with subtle toasted coconut, and an imperial stout also brewed with the same flavour should boast far more of it than this does). The base stout is rudimentary, throwing out generic dark malts and concomitant sweetness along with basic chocolate malt flavour. Pretty boring, shallow, and simple in the contemporary imperial stout landscape.
Barrel character is lacklustre; the bourbon is barely present, lacking any coconut, oak, rich barrel sugars, or the like. I do get a hint of vanillin, but it's vague and subdued. I don't know that I'd peg this for barrel aged in a blind tasting, and the lack of an age statement/info on the label regarding how long the beer spent in barrels doesn't inspire confidence the brewers committed to the bourbon barrel.
Old Rasputin and Victory Storm King are both superior more intricate expressions of the RIS style without any barrel aging or gimmicky additives. That this is better priced on a $ per oz basis is likely due only to its age, though this ought to have aged well over ~3 years if it was a good RIS to begin with. Rather forgettable across the board.
C- (2.69) / BELOW AVERAGE
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