Crane: Sumatra
New Park Brewing
- From:
- New Park Brewing
- Connecticut, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 13.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.85 | pDev: 12.47%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 10, 2022
- Added:
- Jun 12, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Over the course of two years we brewed multiple massive stouts employing double mashes and very long boils to achieve huge body and flavor. These were laid to rest in Buffalo Trace and Booker barrels for one to two years.
We recommend pouring with vigor to release the carbonation trapped in the thick liquid and create a nice layer of foam. We get notes of chocolate truffles soaked in bourbon, sticky praline, and boozy chocolate cake with layers of caramel and vanilla.
The Sumatra variant was conditioned on honey-processed beans from the Kerinci Highlands of Sumatra, sourced and roasted by our friends @jrenecoffee. This beautiful coffee adds notes of anise, apricot, cherry, and honey to the rich base stout.
We recommend pouring with vigor to release the carbonation trapped in the thick liquid and create a nice layer of foam. We get notes of chocolate truffles soaked in bourbon, sticky praline, and boozy chocolate cake with layers of caramel and vanilla.
The Sumatra variant was conditioned on honey-processed beans from the Kerinci Highlands of Sumatra, sourced and roasted by our friends @jrenecoffee. This beautiful coffee adds notes of anise, apricot, cherry, and honey to the rich base stout.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
3.37/5 rDev -12.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.37/5 rDev -12.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
2021 vintage (released on 4/5/21, so presumably bottled within a few days/weeks of that date); consumed on 1/9/22
Pours a glossy, motor-oil black body capped with a short-lived half-finger of dark khaki foam, receding quickly to a matte void of a surface, a creamy, moderate collar, and virtually no lacing holding to the walls of the glass with any longevity.
Aroma is blunt with fresh black coffee as the adjacent roast remains prominent across the bouquet, with shades of green pepper, accents of nuttiness, and a lighter caramel intermittent; touches of mocha into the back end round into slight bourbon vanillins on the closing impression.
Taste features straight black coffee with touches of mocha roast upfront, quietly embracing sweeter cocoa and co tasting hints of burnt caramel over the mid-palate; walnut husk on the back end phases into tinges of oak and faint bourbon, finding a boozy trail through the finish and leaving cocoa lingering.
Mouthfeel brings a medium-thin body with sparse carbonation, seeing a prickly roast into the mid-palate with creamy textures intermittent into the back end, building to a semi-charry character encompassed in a boozy warmth.
Minimal barrel presence finds an already thinner stout steeped in fairly one-note black coffee, halfheartedly expanding on a more basic malt profile whose highlights are a sweet mocha undertone largely failing to compensate for a weaker overall trajectory.
Jan 10, 2022Pours a glossy, motor-oil black body capped with a short-lived half-finger of dark khaki foam, receding quickly to a matte void of a surface, a creamy, moderate collar, and virtually no lacing holding to the walls of the glass with any longevity.
Aroma is blunt with fresh black coffee as the adjacent roast remains prominent across the bouquet, with shades of green pepper, accents of nuttiness, and a lighter caramel intermittent; touches of mocha into the back end round into slight bourbon vanillins on the closing impression.
Taste features straight black coffee with touches of mocha roast upfront, quietly embracing sweeter cocoa and co tasting hints of burnt caramel over the mid-palate; walnut husk on the back end phases into tinges of oak and faint bourbon, finding a boozy trail through the finish and leaving cocoa lingering.
Mouthfeel brings a medium-thin body with sparse carbonation, seeing a prickly roast into the mid-palate with creamy textures intermittent into the back end, building to a semi-charry character encompassed in a boozy warmth.
Minimal barrel presence finds an already thinner stout steeped in fairly one-note black coffee, halfheartedly expanding on a more basic malt profile whose highlights are a sweet mocha undertone largely failing to compensate for a weaker overall trajectory.
Reviewed by Tony210 from New Jersey
4.33/5 rDev +12.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.33/5 rDev +12.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Pours super thick, hard to get any foam. Pitch black, minimal head. Dark roasty malt aroma, bitter coffee. Flavor is bittersweet chocolate, roasted malt, I get dark chocolate covered cherries on the end. Barrel presence is not very prominent. Very dense and flavorful. Thick and creamy, very full bodied. Light carbonation adds to a creamy texture. Overall a good BA imperial Stout, barrel presence is not as noticeable as I would have liked.
6/11/21
500 ml bottle
4.25 rating
Jun 12, 20216/11/21
500 ml bottle
4.25 rating
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