Local's Stash Reserve Series: Bar Envoy Imperial Stout
Crazy Mountain Brewery
- From:
- Crazy Mountain Brewery
- Colorado, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.01 | pDev: 4.24%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 23, 2017
- Added:
- Jan 26, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by mac31 from California
3.84/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.84/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
This is a beer review for IMPERIAL COFFEE STOUT:
Coffee/espresso, strong ash (acrid) component, smoky, and bittersweet chocolate bang the palate on the entry. The non-descript sweetness provides the backbone that keeps some semblance of balance. Mild, earthy hop presence discernible. The body is thin. Carbonation is low which allows the flavors to really come through almost amplifying the flavor profile. Start, coffee. Middle, coffee. Finish, coffee. The alcohol is well hidden. This beer is one day shy of a full 365 since bottling. Could that be why the coffee has some stale-ish ( think old coffee grounds) accents to it? The beer has great, great potential. It screams to me to be Bourbon barrel aged. I’d be quite happy with a nice infusion of more milk chocolate or some vanilla added to the aging process. A nice beer, but needs a tweak or two to be set it off.
Dec 23, 2017Coffee/espresso, strong ash (acrid) component, smoky, and bittersweet chocolate bang the palate on the entry. The non-descript sweetness provides the backbone that keeps some semblance of balance. Mild, earthy hop presence discernible. The body is thin. Carbonation is low which allows the flavors to really come through almost amplifying the flavor profile. Start, coffee. Middle, coffee. Finish, coffee. The alcohol is well hidden. This beer is one day shy of a full 365 since bottling. Could that be why the coffee has some stale-ish ( think old coffee grounds) accents to it? The beer has great, great potential. It screams to me to be Bourbon barrel aged. I’d be quite happy with a nice infusion of more milk chocolate or some vanilla added to the aging process. A nice beer, but needs a tweak or two to be set it off.
Reviewed by Rogerlb from California
4.18/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.18/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours quite dark and viscous. A thin-bubbled but not insignificant head on the top, which, at 10% would be expected to and does dissipate quickly.
No lacing, but alcohol legs are obvious on the tulip glass. Aroma is baker's chocolate. Leather, a bit of plum, cigar. Malt without roast in the smell.
Taste = baker's chocolate, coffee, raw sugar, leather; it's a bit thick. Dense. Also bourbony wood without the cloying this sometimes suggests in a bigger beer. Tobacco. It all feels and looks viscous. Motor oil. Not enough hoppiness or earth to mention to you, dear readers, but the sweet late in the taste takes on the element of sour mango rind. That bittersweet chocolate bar no one wants to finish.
10% ABV well hidden. This is a sipper, and you might just finish your pint before you realized what happened.
Jun 18, 2017No lacing, but alcohol legs are obvious on the tulip glass. Aroma is baker's chocolate. Leather, a bit of plum, cigar. Malt without roast in the smell.
Taste = baker's chocolate, coffee, raw sugar, leather; it's a bit thick. Dense. Also bourbony wood without the cloying this sometimes suggests in a bigger beer. Tobacco. It all feels and looks viscous. Motor oil. Not enough hoppiness or earth to mention to you, dear readers, but the sweet late in the taste takes on the element of sour mango rind. That bittersweet chocolate bar no one wants to finish.
10% ABV well hidden. This is a sipper, and you might just finish your pint before you realized what happened.
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