KGB
Elbeck Brews
- From:
- Elbeck Brews
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Russian Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 9%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.96 | pDev: 3.54%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 12, 2020
- Added:
- Mar 18, 2017
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by TooManyGlasses from Canada (AB)
3.9/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.9/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
22 oz bottle with almost 2 years on it.
Pours a deep black with three fingers plus of tight foamy brown head.
Aroma dark chocolate, day old coffee, slightly vinous with hints of licorice.
Taste has a somewhat roasty char flavour, vinous, licorice; notes of coffee and bittersweet dark chocolate - there is a definite hop bitterness.
Brisk and vibrant carbonation floods the palate on a medium mouthfeel with a dark chocolate and red wine effect sitting on the palate.
Oct 12, 2020Pours a deep black with three fingers plus of tight foamy brown head.
Aroma dark chocolate, day old coffee, slightly vinous with hints of licorice.
Taste has a somewhat roasty char flavour, vinous, licorice; notes of coffee and bittersweet dark chocolate - there is a definite hop bitterness.
Brisk and vibrant carbonation floods the palate on a medium mouthfeel with a dark chocolate and red wine effect sitting on the palate.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
4.04/5 rDev +2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.04/5 rDev +2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
650ml bottle (produced at Two Sergeants), the resurrection of the same (?) offering that was made by Alley Kat, for Sherbrooke Liquor Store, via the auspices of a homebrewing competition winner around five years ago or so - ah, to hell with it, let's just get to the brew(ski).
This beer pours a solid black abyss, with the barest of basal amber edges, and three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly light brown head, which leaves some crazy approaching iceberg shelf lace around the glass as it genially subsides.
It smells of bittersweet cocoa powder, bready and doughy caramel malt, subtle cafe-au-lait notes, a bit of black licorice spiciness, and some very plain leafy, weedy, and gently perfumed floral green hop bitters. The taste is more gritty and grainy dark chocolate, bready and crackery caramel malt, a hint of free-range ashiness, day-old coffee, stale cream, more understated anise edginess, and some consistently meek leafy, earthy, and soused-up floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its merely supportive frothiness, the body a dense medium-heavy weight, and sort of smooth, as that big-boy alcohol eventually has to have its coming-out party somewhere, yeah? It finishes off-dry, but not by as much as one might have been expecting - lots of gentlemanly roast and wowee sauce keeping things manically tethered.
Overall, this is a very well-rendered version of the style (reminiscent of the original, sure, but that's a comparison for another day), with a certain restraint of reason that I can't help but appreciate. Perhaps it's the lack of barrel treatment to which most of us seemingly have been accustomed, but I'm very much liking the straight-forward, large and in charge, naked stout character that I'm getting here.
Mar 19, 2017This beer pours a solid black abyss, with the barest of basal amber edges, and three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly light brown head, which leaves some crazy approaching iceberg shelf lace around the glass as it genially subsides.
It smells of bittersweet cocoa powder, bready and doughy caramel malt, subtle cafe-au-lait notes, a bit of black licorice spiciness, and some very plain leafy, weedy, and gently perfumed floral green hop bitters. The taste is more gritty and grainy dark chocolate, bready and crackery caramel malt, a hint of free-range ashiness, day-old coffee, stale cream, more understated anise edginess, and some consistently meek leafy, earthy, and soused-up floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its merely supportive frothiness, the body a dense medium-heavy weight, and sort of smooth, as that big-boy alcohol eventually has to have its coming-out party somewhere, yeah? It finishes off-dry, but not by as much as one might have been expecting - lots of gentlemanly roast and wowee sauce keeping things manically tethered.
Overall, this is a very well-rendered version of the style (reminiscent of the original, sure, but that's a comparison for another day), with a certain restraint of reason that I can't help but appreciate. Perhaps it's the lack of barrel treatment to which most of us seemingly have been accustomed, but I'm very much liking the straight-forward, large and in charge, naked stout character that I'm getting here.
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