Big White Cloud
Root + Branch Brewing
- From:
- Root + Branch Brewing
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Russian Imperial Stout
Ranked #59 - ABV:
- 9.5%
- Score:
- 94
Ranked #2,496 - Avg:
- 4.45 | pDev: 7.42%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 02, 2025
- Added:
- Dec 11, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
94
Outstanding
94
Outstanding
Big White Cloud is a Russian Imperial Stout brewed with a large portion of malted and flaked oats, along with thoughtful additions of caramel, chocolate and roasted malts; and conditioned at cool temperatures with organic raw cacao nibs and Ugandan vanilla beans.
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Reviewed by ScruffySouthpaw from New York
4.47/5 rDev +0.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
4.47/5 rDev +0.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
Served in a snifter glass from the can.
Appearance: Strong chocolate syrup like body with a dark tan head which had an initial rise of maybe half a finger's length off the body.
Smell: Hazelnut aroma with hints of vanilla and coffee bean. Addicting scent but little light if you ask me.
Taste: Sweet coffee also comes off with dark chocolate feel. Mocha gives it a sweetness which only compliments the other flavors.
Mouth: Medium carbonation with a strong aftertaste.
Overall: I have had his gem so many times and always forget to review it. If you're lucky for this full body spectacle to cross your eyes...grab it. Always in a glass, Salud!
Feb 02, 2025Appearance: Strong chocolate syrup like body with a dark tan head which had an initial rise of maybe half a finger's length off the body.
Smell: Hazelnut aroma with hints of vanilla and coffee bean. Addicting scent but little light if you ask me.
Taste: Sweet coffee also comes off with dark chocolate feel. Mocha gives it a sweetness which only compliments the other flavors.
Mouth: Medium carbonation with a strong aftertaste.
Overall: I have had his gem so many times and always forget to review it. If you're lucky for this full body spectacle to cross your eyes...grab it. Always in a glass, Salud!
Reviewed by Greywulfken from New York
4.55/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5
4.55/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5
Brewed with wheat, flaked and malted oats, chocolate malts and roasted barley, and conditioned on raw organic cacao nibs and Ugandan vanilla beans; 12/15/18 can release...
Relatively thick black pour produces the same in a nonic pint, but just a quick, slim film of tan foam on top... Solid aromas of chocolate syrup and vanilla on the nose, with undertones of sweet black coffee... Presents similarly on the taste - a rich but only moderately sweet beer - chocolate and vanilla apparent but not overpowering or cloying... Bittersweetness is balanced, and affords some drying on the finish, but the sugars are still present... Just a touch of roasty charred malt... The body is super-big, round and rolling and smooth and deep - real killer...
Root + Branch is super-local to me, being in Wantagh, and their beers are brewed and canned by similarly local Great South Bay Brewery - so I doubt this gets any real distro outside of Long Island - but like Nightmare Brewing, Sand City, Other Half , and a handful of others, these are some seriously good beers - don't pass 'em up...
Jan 01, 2019Relatively thick black pour produces the same in a nonic pint, but just a quick, slim film of tan foam on top... Solid aromas of chocolate syrup and vanilla on the nose, with undertones of sweet black coffee... Presents similarly on the taste - a rich but only moderately sweet beer - chocolate and vanilla apparent but not overpowering or cloying... Bittersweetness is balanced, and affords some drying on the finish, but the sugars are still present... Just a touch of roasty charred malt... The body is super-big, round and rolling and smooth and deep - real killer...
Root + Branch is super-local to me, being in Wantagh, and their beers are brewed and canned by similarly local Great South Bay Brewery - so I doubt this gets any real distro outside of Long Island - but like Nightmare Brewing, Sand City, Other Half , and a handful of others, these are some seriously good beers - don't pass 'em up...
Rated by jimbobill from New York
5/5 rDev +12.4%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
5/5 rDev +12.4%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Phenomenal fluid
Dec 31, 2018
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