Graben
Microbrasserie de Tadoussac
- From:
- Microbrasserie de Tadoussac
- Quebec, Canada
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 9.6%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.73 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 24, 2019
- Added:
- Jan 17, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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An Imperial Stout brewed with peated malt.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by TheDoctor from Canada (QC)
3.73/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Serving: Can
Canned: May-26-2019 (Consumed Sep-22)
It pours black as pitch with a short-lived, gassy tan head that leaves little in the way of a frothy cap, just a thin ring and some Ebola-looking lacing. A nose of smoky cacao bitterness, caramelized wood. The flavor is day old cowboy coffee, molasses, some chocolate and a light smoke in the finish that slowly rises to become peatier and peatier till it kind of dries your mouth out. It is pretty full bodied despite a little thinness, thanks to a lingering scotchy sort of finish. Fairly active carbonation, pretty sweet.
This is a pretty good stout. Nothing spectacular. It looks like a nice
stout, but suffers from a lack of head retention. The aroma and flavor are
both fairly nice as well and they do an extremely good job of keeping the peat in
check. However it still ends up fairly unbalanced and a little wonky in the mouth. It is a little sweet and thin-roasty as a stout goes. The smoke definitely adds some complexity, but I feel like the thin astringent twang you get from peat kind of exacerbates it's thinness and cuts the richness of the flavor. It has a lingering drying feel from it as well that kick it down a notch for me. All in all though it is not a bad beer and does what other beers from better breweries have not been able to do in my opinion.
3.75...3.75...3.75...3.5....3.75
Sep 24, 2019Canned: May-26-2019 (Consumed Sep-22)
It pours black as pitch with a short-lived, gassy tan head that leaves little in the way of a frothy cap, just a thin ring and some Ebola-looking lacing. A nose of smoky cacao bitterness, caramelized wood. The flavor is day old cowboy coffee, molasses, some chocolate and a light smoke in the finish that slowly rises to become peatier and peatier till it kind of dries your mouth out. It is pretty full bodied despite a little thinness, thanks to a lingering scotchy sort of finish. Fairly active carbonation, pretty sweet.
This is a pretty good stout. Nothing spectacular. It looks like a nice
stout, but suffers from a lack of head retention. The aroma and flavor are
both fairly nice as well and they do an extremely good job of keeping the peat in
check. However it still ends up fairly unbalanced and a little wonky in the mouth. It is a little sweet and thin-roasty as a stout goes. The smoke definitely adds some complexity, but I feel like the thin astringent twang you get from peat kind of exacerbates it's thinness and cuts the richness of the flavor. It has a lingering drying feel from it as well that kick it down a notch for me. All in all though it is not a bad beer and does what other beers from better breweries have not been able to do in my opinion.
3.75...3.75...3.75...3.5....3.75
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