Power's Out
Vanessa House Beer Company
- From:
- Vanessa House Beer Company
- Oklahoma, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.81 | pDev: 9.45%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 12, 2023
- Added:
- Feb 04, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Roast and vanilla dominate the nose and give way to a roasty, sweet flavor that finishes with a dark stone fruit note.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.3/5 rDev -13.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.3/5 rDev -13.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
12 fl oz pull-tab can:
"Vanilla Stout Ale." 11.5% ABV. 40 IBUs. "Stout Ale brewed with Vanilla Beans."
The vanilla isn't as pungent, luscious, or genuine as I'd like. The base beer (i.e. the beer that isn't additive-laden) isn't as roasty as would be ideal, either. Dark malts, specialty chocolate malt, maybe carafa.
Not coffee-redolent or overtly chocolatey. Has a nice balance of sweetness and dryness, never tending too cloying.
Lacks any overt hop flavour (to style).
A drinkable enjoyable imperial stout, though I wish it went bigger on the vanilla bean and I think it'd do well with more complexity. I'd sooner drink something like Dragon's Milk (which actually has more vanilla-forward flavours merely by virtue of its bourbon barrel vanillin) if I must have a high ABV vanilla imperial stout, not to mention the many vanilla bean-ed stouts that are less widely available (e.g. Bourbon County Brand Stout Vanilla) but this is a decent enough expression of the style. Glad to see it on the Oklahoma market.
Low B- / WORTHY
Sep 14, 2021"Vanilla Stout Ale." 11.5% ABV. 40 IBUs. "Stout Ale brewed with Vanilla Beans."
The vanilla isn't as pungent, luscious, or genuine as I'd like. The base beer (i.e. the beer that isn't additive-laden) isn't as roasty as would be ideal, either. Dark malts, specialty chocolate malt, maybe carafa.
Not coffee-redolent or overtly chocolatey. Has a nice balance of sweetness and dryness, never tending too cloying.
Lacks any overt hop flavour (to style).
A drinkable enjoyable imperial stout, though I wish it went bigger on the vanilla bean and I think it'd do well with more complexity. I'd sooner drink something like Dragon's Milk (which actually has more vanilla-forward flavours merely by virtue of its bourbon barrel vanillin) if I must have a high ABV vanilla imperial stout, not to mention the many vanilla bean-ed stouts that are less widely available (e.g. Bourbon County Brand Stout Vanilla) but this is a decent enough expression of the style. Glad to see it on the Oklahoma market.
Low B- / WORTHY
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