Ego Death
Annex Ale Project
- From:
- Annex Ale Project
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 8.9%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.05 | pDev: 3.46%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 16, 2020
- Added:
- Dec 24, 2018
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.93/5 rDev -3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.93/5 rDev -3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
650ml bottle - I am rather fond of the existential angst names that this brewery tends to give their offerings.
This beer pours a fairly solid black, with subtle amber basal edges, and three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly brown head, which leaves some stellar cobwebbed lace around the glass as it evenly dissipates.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, cafe-au-lait, a hint of anise spiciness, and very tame earthy, musty, and floral noble hops. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee sweetness, medium chocolate wafers, faint day-old coffee grounds, cold cream, sort of spicy licorice, and more understated leafy, herbal, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-satiating frothiness, the body a dense middleweight, and mostly smooth, with perhaps a touch of burgeoning alcohol ingress making a bit of unwelcome inroads here. It finishes trending dry, the roasted character predominating.
Overall - this is a pleasant enough rendition of the style, with no adjuncts getting in the way of a straightforward experience. Easy to put back, on a nice snowy Christmas Day afternoon, which is always a nice thing to have. Oh, and the near 9 points of ABV are pretty much invisible, so I shall enjoy the rest of this with some rapidly disappearing Bridge Mix.
Dec 25, 2018This beer pours a fairly solid black, with subtle amber basal edges, and three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly brown head, which leaves some stellar cobwebbed lace around the glass as it evenly dissipates.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, cafe-au-lait, a hint of anise spiciness, and very tame earthy, musty, and floral noble hops. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee sweetness, medium chocolate wafers, faint day-old coffee grounds, cold cream, sort of spicy licorice, and more understated leafy, herbal, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-satiating frothiness, the body a dense middleweight, and mostly smooth, with perhaps a touch of burgeoning alcohol ingress making a bit of unwelcome inroads here. It finishes trending dry, the roasted character predominating.
Overall - this is a pleasant enough rendition of the style, with no adjuncts getting in the way of a straightforward experience. Easy to put back, on a nice snowy Christmas Day afternoon, which is always a nice thing to have. Oh, and the near 9 points of ABV are pretty much invisible, so I shall enjoy the rest of this with some rapidly disappearing Bridge Mix.
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