Crooked & Steep Batch #01
Gotahold Brewing
- From:
- Gotahold Brewing
- Arkansas, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 11%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.61 | pDev: 4.16%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 03, 2021
- Added:
- Apr 19, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Big, roasty, viscous stout aged in 3 different bourbon barrels: one with cacao nibs, one with coffee beans, and the last a newly charred but unused bourbon barrel.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Roguer from Connecticut
3.45/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.45/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Very good head production, and similarly solid retention.
Nose is darkly fragrant, with notes of bourbon, coffee, molasses, chocolate, oak, char, vanilla, toast, nuts, banana, and brown sugar.
Hot and boozy up front; plenty of bitter char. A touch sour, I suspect from the barrels; it doesn't quite lean into infected territory, it's just sharp. Strikes me more as a Russian Imperial than American Imperial. Notes of coffee, bitter chocolate, prune, red grape, molasses, oak, bourbon, char.
Update: this was simply to acidic and sour to finish; something definitely seemed "off," perhaps an infection that simply hadn't fully developed yet. The fact remains that I couldn't make it through an entire single glass. I definitely didn't get distinct notes of cacao and coffee, either, to the extent that it would reflect resting on both. This beer seems to have simply been too ambitious for the skills or attention of the brewery's barrel program. I admire the ambition, and there's potential, but the execution simply isn't there.
May 03, 2021Nose is darkly fragrant, with notes of bourbon, coffee, molasses, chocolate, oak, char, vanilla, toast, nuts, banana, and brown sugar.
Hot and boozy up front; plenty of bitter char. A touch sour, I suspect from the barrels; it doesn't quite lean into infected territory, it's just sharp. Strikes me more as a Russian Imperial than American Imperial. Notes of coffee, bitter chocolate, prune, red grape, molasses, oak, bourbon, char.
Update: this was simply to acidic and sour to finish; something definitely seemed "off," perhaps an infection that simply hadn't fully developed yet. The fact remains that I couldn't make it through an entire single glass. I definitely didn't get distinct notes of cacao and coffee, either, to the extent that it would reflect resting on both. This beer seems to have simply been too ambitious for the skills or attention of the brewery's barrel program. I admire the ambition, and there's potential, but the execution simply isn't there.
Reviewed by russpowell from Arkansas
3.76/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 2.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.76/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 2.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours an effervescent chestnut tinged mahogany with one finger of tight tan head. Traces of head retention & lacing
S: Dark fruit, a little dark chocolate
T: Cocoa, woody hops, oaky dryness& a little char up front. Dryness, roastyness, a little vanilla & cocoa as this warms, some figs as well. Finishes roasty, dry with vanilla, figs, dark chocolate & just a little booze warmth
MF: Medium body, fairly firm carbonation which smooths out as it warms
Not bad, but was looking for more barrel aspects, ABV is well masked
Apr 19, 2021S: Dark fruit, a little dark chocolate
T: Cocoa, woody hops, oaky dryness& a little char up front. Dryness, roastyness, a little vanilla & cocoa as this warms, some figs as well. Finishes roasty, dry with vanilla, figs, dark chocolate & just a little booze warmth
MF: Medium body, fairly firm carbonation which smooths out as it warms
Not bad, but was looking for more barrel aspects, ABV is well masked
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