Groundswell 4 - Cherry Bourbon Imperial Stout
Bells Beach Brewing
- From:
- Bells Beach Brewing
- Australia
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 11.4%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.25 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 31, 2025
- Added:
- Jan 31, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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The 4th release in our barrel-aged Groundswell programme was brewed using a re-iterated mash process, which has been chilling out for 12 months in Bourbon barrels before being dosed with lashings of cherries.
Sticky and viscous, with a slightly tart cherry finish.
Sticky and viscous, with a slightly tart cherry finish.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by AzfromOz from Australia
4.25/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.25/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
This was purchased at the brewery in September 2024 and drunk in January 2025.
L: The beer is jet black with an insubstantial rim of coffee-coloured head. No carbonation can be seen through the veil of blackness.
S: The nose is roasty dark malts, coffee, cherry and booze.
T: The taste is sweet and tangy cherries with a touch of almond, chocolate, wood, vanilla and booze. The booze backs off as the beer warms, and the sweetness of the cherries becomes slightly more tart and tangy. The finish is long and sweet. The booze note that is there at the start gives no hint of the 11.4% ABV hiding under the hood, and once that booze note drops, the beer becomes very dangerous!
M: The beer is thick and syrupy, with almost no carbonation or carbonic kick, but all is in perfect harmony with the rest of the beer. The can notes the beer is sticky, and the evidence on my lips fully agrees with the statement.
O: An excellent, smooth, tasty and moreish beast of a beer that hides its supreme danger behind a refined and tasty flavour profile.
Cheers!
#669
Jan 31, 2025L: The beer is jet black with an insubstantial rim of coffee-coloured head. No carbonation can be seen through the veil of blackness.
S: The nose is roasty dark malts, coffee, cherry and booze.
T: The taste is sweet and tangy cherries with a touch of almond, chocolate, wood, vanilla and booze. The booze backs off as the beer warms, and the sweetness of the cherries becomes slightly more tart and tangy. The finish is long and sweet. The booze note that is there at the start gives no hint of the 11.4% ABV hiding under the hood, and once that booze note drops, the beer becomes very dangerous!
M: The beer is thick and syrupy, with almost no carbonation or carbonic kick, but all is in perfect harmony with the rest of the beer. The can notes the beer is sticky, and the evidence on my lips fully agrees with the statement.
O: An excellent, smooth, tasty and moreish beast of a beer that hides its supreme danger behind a refined and tasty flavour profile.
Cheers!
#669
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