Core Competency Blend No. 2
Corporate Ladder Brewing Company
- From:
- Corporate Ladder Brewing Company
- Florida, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 14%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.31 | pDev: 5.34%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 13, 2026
- Added:
- Jun 07, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
4.52/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.52/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
In a supreme experiment of beer barrel-aged blending, Corporate Ladder takes an already enormous Imperial stout and blends together these versions aged in Elijah Craig Rye barrels for 28 months, Blanton's barrels for 24 months, and finally a 14-year Austin Nichols barrels aged for 20 months. What emerges is simply stout lover's heaven.
Jet black and pouring like espresso with the density of motor oil, Core Competency Blend No. 2 might be slight on foam but it is abundant in sweet, savory, toasty, roasty and boozy scents. Seducing the senses like a fine port or sherry, the flavors first slather on the richness with flavors of brown sugar, blackstrap molasses, chocolate wrapped coffee bean, vanilla, caramel and dark condensed fruit.
As its delicious sweetness saturates the tastebuds, the more savory flavors of dark roast coffee, charred woods, lightly smoked chocolate and burnt brownie transitions past simple sweetness and into the decadence of malt. Spicy with the effects of bourbon bringing a chest numbing warmth, there's the char of oak, peppery whisky flavor, coconut, vanilla and caramel that soothe the late palate with nuanced fruits of raisin, date and fig applying a madiera-like character before closing the session out.
Full, lavish and sultry sweet, the bourbon heavy stout never looses its focus on stout but weaves in the best of each whisky's best attributes. It finishes pleasantly rich but off-cloying with a long extension of chocolate, port and bourbon.
Jun 07, 2023Jet black and pouring like espresso with the density of motor oil, Core Competency Blend No. 2 might be slight on foam but it is abundant in sweet, savory, toasty, roasty and boozy scents. Seducing the senses like a fine port or sherry, the flavors first slather on the richness with flavors of brown sugar, blackstrap molasses, chocolate wrapped coffee bean, vanilla, caramel and dark condensed fruit.
As its delicious sweetness saturates the tastebuds, the more savory flavors of dark roast coffee, charred woods, lightly smoked chocolate and burnt brownie transitions past simple sweetness and into the decadence of malt. Spicy with the effects of bourbon bringing a chest numbing warmth, there's the char of oak, peppery whisky flavor, coconut, vanilla and caramel that soothe the late palate with nuanced fruits of raisin, date and fig applying a madiera-like character before closing the session out.
Full, lavish and sultry sweet, the bourbon heavy stout never looses its focus on stout but weaves in the best of each whisky's best attributes. It finishes pleasantly rich but off-cloying with a long extension of chocolate, port and bourbon.
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