Fatal Deviation - Barrel Aged
Whiplash Brewing
- From:
- Whiplash Brewing
- Ireland
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 11%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.99 | pDev: 5.01%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Yesterday at 10:40 AM
- Added:
- Apr 22, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by StJamesGate from New York
4.06/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.06/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
2021
Viscous ebony with pile of moussy taupe froth; milk chocolate truffles, bourbon, fig jam, and aged oak on the nose; baker’s chocolate, licorice, slight soy, black currant, espresso, touch of wood and brown sugar finish; med-full, creamy, slight burn.
4 4.25 4 4 4
There’s a lot to notice here: how much the aroma recalls not just Cadbury’s, but all sort of milk chocolate: sprinkles, icing, ice cream. How low the roast is in favour of a more layered flavour profile. How much the barrel has stepped back after 5 years. How much the booziness hasn’t.
How the hint of autolysis is creeping in.
This is a totally decent fireplace sipper that, in a market that’s an arms race of barrel, adjunct and ever higher ABV, is likely to get totally lost. Even judging the simple base beer, there are better examples: the recipe seems to go for a subtler layered malt bill at the expense of impact. And it wasn’t worth sitting on for 5 years, but only because the competition is so fierce.
But Alex made good stouts, perhaps more consistently than any other style, and he’ll be missed for that.
A very good stout that never reaches greatness.
Yesterday at 10:40 AMViscous ebony with pile of moussy taupe froth; milk chocolate truffles, bourbon, fig jam, and aged oak on the nose; baker’s chocolate, licorice, slight soy, black currant, espresso, touch of wood and brown sugar finish; med-full, creamy, slight burn.
4 4.25 4 4 4
There’s a lot to notice here: how much the aroma recalls not just Cadbury’s, but all sort of milk chocolate: sprinkles, icing, ice cream. How low the roast is in favour of a more layered flavour profile. How much the barrel has stepped back after 5 years. How much the booziness hasn’t.
How the hint of autolysis is creeping in.
This is a totally decent fireplace sipper that, in a market that’s an arms race of barrel, adjunct and ever higher ABV, is likely to get totally lost. Even judging the simple base beer, there are better examples: the recipe seems to go for a subtler layered malt bill at the expense of impact. And it wasn’t worth sitting on for 5 years, but only because the competition is so fierce.
But Alex made good stouts, perhaps more consistently than any other style, and he’ll be missed for that.
A very good stout that never reaches greatness.
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