UVB 76 - YELENA
Wellington Brewery
- From:
- Wellington Brewery
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Russian Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 11.9%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.31 | pDev: 5.57%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 18, 2021
- Added:
- Dec 05, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Russian Imperial Stout Bourbon Barrel Aged with Ethiopian Coffee infused.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by TheHammer from Canada (ON)
4.25/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.25/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Appearance: Poured with a thumb's worth of head that produced some mild lace but could have stayed around a bit while longer. The beer is as black as night, but the bottom of the glass shows quite a bit of peculiar sediment. Thankfully, it seems to stay at the bottom of the glass.
Smell: Coffee with some mild burnt malt and maybe the barest hint of cherry in the background. Didn't need a lot of warming to come out, and well enough in terms of potency.
Taste: Mild coffee permeates every aspect of the beer, like a mafia don in a club. He's tranquil and out of the way, but you know he's the one in charge and is the one you give respect to. It starts with a nice mildly sweet toffee malt that turns slightly more bitter and burnt, the coffee asserts itself slightly more with a hint of dry grain and a touch of cherry before a light bitter note of the hops bows out with the coffee.
Mouthfeel: Velvety smooth, initially with a peaceful but potent evolution, and the stout and a hint of the coffee bitterness only appearing in the aftertaste around the 3/4 completion mark, and with it that mild cherry snap asserts slightly more, but it's so mild you know that actual cherry isn't causing it. Creamy carbonation could be a bit more potent but transitioning is well done, as "The Coffee Don" holds the whole beer together.
Drinkability: I prefer my stout to be a bit thicker then this, but I wouldn't even call it on the heavier end of medium bodied. The beer's smoothness, aftertaste and masterful concealment of its slightly higher ABV though makes up for that, and it also doesn't feel overly filling. A sipping stout this is not.
Final Thoughts: I was a bit hesitant to do this stout, as I figured it was a coffee stout and that note tends to take over with a lot of these beers, and I need to be in the mood for it. This beer however, while the coffee dominates the beer, it's not the showman, and that is something I found very interesting and unique with this one, making it more then a simple coffee stout, but a stout that uses coffee to be a better stout. High praise for this one, probably the strongest of the UVB series, I've hade.
Sep 18, 2021Smell: Coffee with some mild burnt malt and maybe the barest hint of cherry in the background. Didn't need a lot of warming to come out, and well enough in terms of potency.
Taste: Mild coffee permeates every aspect of the beer, like a mafia don in a club. He's tranquil and out of the way, but you know he's the one in charge and is the one you give respect to. It starts with a nice mildly sweet toffee malt that turns slightly more bitter and burnt, the coffee asserts itself slightly more with a hint of dry grain and a touch of cherry before a light bitter note of the hops bows out with the coffee.
Mouthfeel: Velvety smooth, initially with a peaceful but potent evolution, and the stout and a hint of the coffee bitterness only appearing in the aftertaste around the 3/4 completion mark, and with it that mild cherry snap asserts slightly more, but it's so mild you know that actual cherry isn't causing it. Creamy carbonation could be a bit more potent but transitioning is well done, as "The Coffee Don" holds the whole beer together.
Drinkability: I prefer my stout to be a bit thicker then this, but I wouldn't even call it on the heavier end of medium bodied. The beer's smoothness, aftertaste and masterful concealment of its slightly higher ABV though makes up for that, and it also doesn't feel overly filling. A sipping stout this is not.
Final Thoughts: I was a bit hesitant to do this stout, as I figured it was a coffee stout and that note tends to take over with a lot of these beers, and I need to be in the mood for it. This beer however, while the coffee dominates the beer, it's not the showman, and that is something I found very interesting and unique with this one, making it more then a simple coffee stout, but a stout that uses coffee to be a better stout. High praise for this one, probably the strongest of the UVB series, I've hade.
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