Nuclear Winter
Banded Peak Brewing Co.
- From:
- Banded Peak Brewing Co.
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Russian Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 10.96%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.85 | pDev: 16.1%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 22, 2022
- Added:
- Feb 08, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
4.09/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.09/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
355ml can - now that the last little while has been so relatively warm, the literary attachment to this one's marketing has lost some of its pull. Anyways.
This beer pours a solid black abyss, with the barest of basal amber edges, and a teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly brown head, which leaves some random mountaintop snowpack profile lace around the glass as it slowly seeps out of sight.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, some indistinct roasted nuttiness, bittersweet cocoa powder, cafe-au-lait, muddled dark fruity notes, and some plain earthy, musty, and lit-up floral hoppiness. The taste is gritty and grainy cereal malt, chocolate pudding cups, dry roasted coffee beans, oily bar-top nuts, cold cream, bruised plums, pears and figs, and some still understated herbal, weedy, and gently perfumed floral hop bitters.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-satiating frothiness, the body a dense medium weight, and pretty damned smooth, with a nice creaminess apparent soon after the move towards room temperature was initiated. It finishes off-dry, the malt, cocoa, coffee, and lactic notes yukking it up well past last call.
Overall - this comes across as a stand-up version of the style, expertly blended from its constituent flavours (which as elucidated, are manyfold). It's supposed to snow tonight, so I suppose I can make the gist of this thing still work. Great stuff!
Mar 03, 2020This beer pours a solid black abyss, with the barest of basal amber edges, and a teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly brown head, which leaves some random mountaintop snowpack profile lace around the glass as it slowly seeps out of sight.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, some indistinct roasted nuttiness, bittersweet cocoa powder, cafe-au-lait, muddled dark fruity notes, and some plain earthy, musty, and lit-up floral hoppiness. The taste is gritty and grainy cereal malt, chocolate pudding cups, dry roasted coffee beans, oily bar-top nuts, cold cream, bruised plums, pears and figs, and some still understated herbal, weedy, and gently perfumed floral hop bitters.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-satiating frothiness, the body a dense medium weight, and pretty damned smooth, with a nice creaminess apparent soon after the move towards room temperature was initiated. It finishes off-dry, the malt, cocoa, coffee, and lactic notes yukking it up well past last call.
Overall - this comes across as a stand-up version of the style, expertly blended from its constituent flavours (which as elucidated, are manyfold). It's supposed to snow tonight, so I suppose I can make the gist of this thing still work. Great stuff!
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
4.46/5 rDev +15.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.46/5 rDev +15.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Collaboration brew with Zero Issue (Issue 1).
"Boozy/Dark/Exothermic"
Appearance - Pours a jet black with three fingers of frothy mocha tan head that leaves some pleasant lace on the glass.
Smell - earthy, leafy, and floral hops, cocoa, coffee bean, roasted malts, hint of dark fruits, milk and dark chocolate, and earthy yeast.
Taste - earthy, leafy, and floral hops upfront. The brew then goes into bold notes from the cocoa, coffee bean, milk and dark chocolate. The hint of dark fruits, and earthy yeast round out the brew.
Mouthfeel - Medium to full bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes velvety smooth with the cocoa, coffee bean and warmth from the alcohol lingering.
Overall - A supberb RIS that boasts bold flavours. I like how everything works together to create a very harmonious brew that is truly a dangerous sipper. Another winner and great collab brew!
Feb 08, 2020"Boozy/Dark/Exothermic"
Appearance - Pours a jet black with three fingers of frothy mocha tan head that leaves some pleasant lace on the glass.
Smell - earthy, leafy, and floral hops, cocoa, coffee bean, roasted malts, hint of dark fruits, milk and dark chocolate, and earthy yeast.
Taste - earthy, leafy, and floral hops upfront. The brew then goes into bold notes from the cocoa, coffee bean, milk and dark chocolate. The hint of dark fruits, and earthy yeast round out the brew.
Mouthfeel - Medium to full bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes velvety smooth with the cocoa, coffee bean and warmth from the alcohol lingering.
Overall - A supberb RIS that boasts bold flavours. I like how everything works together to create a very harmonious brew that is truly a dangerous sipper. Another winner and great collab brew!
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