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From:
Private Press Brewing
 
California, United States
Style:
American Imperial Stout
Ranked #742
ABV:
12.4%
Score:
91
Ranked #9,034
Avg:
4.25 | pDev: 3.06%
Ratings:
11 | reviews: 3
Status:
Active
Rated:
Aug 06, 2022
Added:
Feb 19, 2021
Wants:
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Gots:
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Anniversary blend of barrel-aged imperial stouts brewed with honey.
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Rated: 4.07 by Knapp85 from Pennsylvania

Aug 06, 2022
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Reviewed by jzeilinger from Pennsylvania

4.18/5  rDev -1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
A - Dark brown / black pour with a dense tan lacing ring.

S - Toasted brown sugar and alchohol on the nose.

T - Honey, figs, apples, Brandy, Bourbon, and alot of booziness.

M - Big, thick and syrupy texture that's sticky on the palate.

O - Just my modest Edgar Allen Poe review. I'm very greatful for the opportunity to review this beer.
Aug 06, 2022
 
Rated: 4.25 by mattreitz49 from Florida

Jul 06, 2022
 
Rated: 4.19 by BeerBeast from Florida

Jul 06, 2022
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Reviewed by drdiesel9483 from Ohio

4.08/5  rDev -4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Look - nice black thick with a tan rimming
Smell - really nice rich roasty caramel
Taste - sweet roasty caramel woody
Feel - syrupy
Overall - not to bad
Oct 31, 2021
 
Rated: 4.24 by westcoastbeerlvr from California

Aug 21, 2021
 
Rated: 4.34 by Beerbom from California

Aug 18, 2021
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Reviewed by M-Fox24 from New Jersey

4.15/5  rDev -2.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
A: Black foliage to charcoal pour with sunlit qualities that swing burnt cedar before walnut. The head presents an off-white mannerism to creamed coffee, and maintains some defensibility against a hastily cut rim. Thereafter, lace imprints the perimeter in a discrete mannerism that later evolves with stirred gaps, while windows streak lightly upon their bumpy inauguration, and refine within their capacity to grow

S: There’s a mild presence on bourbon that reaches to charred fig compotes and russet prune, while being softly termed against the combusting sense of apple brandy. The carryover works chocolate fondue to sweet drupes, then proceeds to shape a fine footing in vanilla agroforests. On this note, ripe fruit shines and flavors coffee with sweet breadfruit, while parching a rearguard to licorice, as molasses soupçons faded leather straps. Meanwhile, a backlit presence on toasted (caramel) malt, which synergizes the blend and stimulates the nutty/caramel facades to apple blondies. As the rays of light increase the capacity with ongoing sweat, brown sugar ups the ante thru a new level of sticky thickness, while promoting apple cider donuts. With this in mind, the visuals steal back a moment for lace trajectories, as the imprints cultivate. Carrying forward, roasted malt pools some of the barrel warmth, for an adaption that nears the Manuka Honey & Cream edition of Tim Tams. That pool begins to drive a temporarily hot and lacquered sent, while pushing vanilla oak densities. Thereafter, an onward stab for dried smoke, while singling blackstrap molasses and brandied chocolate cherries

T: Roasted front that middles the bitter qualities of an espresso’s heart, while gradually working the intricacies of the body’s sweetness within the shot. The connotation is similar to that of Bali’s Best, with a caressing component for sweet German chocolate, and a bond to hardened Mampostials along apple brandy forecourts. Simultaneously, Cocoa Krispies are a driving force with vanilla cardboard. Yet, cardboard being of the blends adaptation to honey besides apple brandy, which later becomes overshadowed by vanilla graham; nevertheless, irrelevant to corrosion or conditioning. As progression pivots, so does a kindness for the blends contribution to caramel and honey malt, on the basis of Riesen and Milk Duds. Honey strains less on cider, but uniquely ties caramel apple to the growing tails in raisin, fig, and prune. Tub balminess further eases malts suggestive implications on Bit-O-Honey, before preceding into the Caramel Apple Cow Tales. For that reason, the blends placement on structure is an enhancing capability that pushes bitter crema, for mellower/placid summaries in sweet fruit to creamy Vanilla Cocomels, as they rest alongside the apple infused coffee

M: The preset is cemented around a full-bodied earthiness, yet texture ensues the suede-effect in the fullness of time. Accordingly, the body middles to a cottony, cozy, comfortably warm surface. There’s modesty within carbonation, which quietly permits the barrels to lend heat perceptively. Furthering the headway with time-lapse & warmer temperatures adds a solvent quality to the melded finish. Henceforth, drier connotations in the aftermath, from barrel grabs nearing the wood-finish of smoked apple pork, spiced oak, and dried grape leather, with a subtle prevalence in cider donuts

O: The outlining take is moderate on the starts in timbered/floral hops and soft spoken esters, while the richly roasted malts web a network with barrel jovialness. At full length is a progression that maneuvers burnt coffee grounds at go, while acclimating cushier, creamer notations. By and by, a development that reinforces the woolly blend, from oak/bourbon backdrops to apple brandy
Jul 25, 2021
 
Rated: 4.47 by aasher from Indiana

Jul 07, 2021
 
Rated: 4.48 by leroybrown10 from Missouri

Apr 03, 2021
 
Rated: 4.28 by bret27 from California

Mar 20, 2021