Come on Roasters
Maltgarden
- From:
- Maltgarden
- Poland
- Style:
- Russian Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 11.8%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.13 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Nov 05, 2020
- Added:
- Oct 25, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by JonnoWillsteed from England
4.13/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.13/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
L- What an extraordinary pour. Jet black body, brief 1mm deep tan head now 1/2 cleared (no surprise it's light on head at this ABV% x-ref surface-tension etc). I raised the bottle on the pour to 10Cm+ height to encourage more foam-creation, nope, and the pour was *silent* not a single splash, nothing, like pouring oil...
S- Big coffee with some cocoa notes underneath.
T- BIG coffee again, and then some dark cocoa sub-notes, then wham! into big %-liquor-ish notes all over, coffee-liquor, before cocoa plus a really deep malty richness underpinning the big taste.
F- I keep saying BIG hehe, this is though, a big beer and a really big statement. It's big coffee with deep cocoa underpinning it. Then -> wham in comes the ABV% like a couple of shots of 40% grain-spirit has been added.
O- Despite all of this^ and the potentially blunt-impact 11.8% ABV at no point is it over-bearing. There is nothing obviously out of place. It's just a full-on coffee-heavy, cocoa-underpinned, ABV% mega (yet '''understated''' on the palate), slow-sippin' beer that's ideal for winter. I like it. It's not something I could drink much of it's that full-on, but now and again, sure, a big impact treat. Would go reallly well with deep/dark chocolate cake, Xmas pudding, or indeed pungent cheese+crackers which it would stand up to easily. I reckon this is one of the Top-50, of 1430 to date, beers I have reviewed here. It reminds me of some of the really big-beast Icelandic black beers, like Lava Beer etc.
Not cheap, like those^ Icelandics, £7.99/500ml bottle, BB: 04/05/2023. Bought from TremblingMadness/UK as part of a pick-your-own home-delv order to London.
ps. Serve cold and don't linger too long, it gets increasingly rich (and ABV%-full on) as it warms....
Nov 05, 2020S- Big coffee with some cocoa notes underneath.
T- BIG coffee again, and then some dark cocoa sub-notes, then wham! into big %-liquor-ish notes all over, coffee-liquor, before cocoa plus a really deep malty richness underpinning the big taste.
F- I keep saying BIG hehe, this is though, a big beer and a really big statement. It's big coffee with deep cocoa underpinning it. Then -> wham in comes the ABV% like a couple of shots of 40% grain-spirit has been added.
O- Despite all of this^ and the potentially blunt-impact 11.8% ABV at no point is it over-bearing. There is nothing obviously out of place. It's just a full-on coffee-heavy, cocoa-underpinned, ABV% mega (yet '''understated''' on the palate), slow-sippin' beer that's ideal for winter. I like it. It's not something I could drink much of it's that full-on, but now and again, sure, a big impact treat. Would go reallly well with deep/dark chocolate cake, Xmas pudding, or indeed pungent cheese+crackers which it would stand up to easily. I reckon this is one of the Top-50, of 1430 to date, beers I have reviewed here. It reminds me of some of the really big-beast Icelandic black beers, like Lava Beer etc.
Not cheap, like those^ Icelandics, £7.99/500ml bottle, BB: 04/05/2023. Bought from TremblingMadness/UK as part of a pick-your-own home-delv order to London.
ps. Serve cold and don't linger too long, it gets increasingly rich (and ABV%-full on) as it warms....
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