Imperial Stout Appreciation Thread (2023)

idk if i just needed something strong today but damn this is hitting the spot. trying to take my time with it but it’s so delicious i can’t stop taking gulp after gulp. cheers!!

 

ONLY DUMMIES LIKE COCONUT?!
HARUMPF!
I like coconut in my stout. Color me a dummy.
Good day, sir. I SAID GOOD DAY, SIR!
LOL!

 

Other Half / Homes 9th anniversary collab stout. This is excellent. The cacao nib and vanilla adjuncts listed might make you think it will be desserty, but it really isn’t. The nose is all bourbon and barrel. The flavor follows the nose, with a big but fast alcohol bite. Stains the glass brown. Definitely has a sweetness to the malt base, but it won’t cause you to look for the insulin and a syringe.

 

Tavour just had that. I passed. There are so many things I “need” to buy the next couple of weeks. I opted for the SP “Parallels” and Boss Ryeway. Then there’s the OH #9 stout to get more of. Then Bananaversary is out this week. Then the Baladin BWs for trade. Then the GI BCBW ‘22s to buy. Sure, I have a job. Sure, my nerts are fully descended. Sure, my wife is going to have some words about $500+ in beer on the credit card. It’s flippin’ stout and barleywine season dammit!

 

Nah, it says Side Project. I have my Thin Man Coconut Jenkins, Mortalis BA Nyx 4th Anniversary, WW Coconut Medianoche, Blessed b1, Blessed b2…I’ll be aight. LOL!

 

Victory Brewing - Dark Thunder Storm King. I prefer the regular version, but it's still pretty good. Luckily the coconut is fairly subdued.

 

Good day BAs! Today's New Breakfast Beer is:



Dragon’s Milk Triple Mash from New Holland. 12 oz bottle. Stored at 34 degrees at home. Received from @Whyteboar in NBW BIF #16. Reviewed 31/01/23 (Review 3126). Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Printed on label “2022 RELEASE” and stamped in shoulder in yellow ink “09/08/21 09:26”. Served at 57.7 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. The final temperature was 61.8 degrees.
Appearance – 3.5
First pour – Medium Amber (SRM 12), clear.
Body – Brown (SRM 30), opaque. Under direct light, opaque chocolate brown with noticeable precipitates. When rear lite, same but xanthous at the edges. By the final temperature, it is slightly translucent.
Head – Average (Maximum two cm, aggressive center pour), wheat, medium density, fizzy, quickly receding to a 0.1 cm bubble ring and several irregular bubble islands.
Lacing – None. Really not expected at 17.3% ABV.
Aroma – 3.5 – Weak bourbon and roasted malt. Slight oakiness and a bit of caramel. No hops, no yeast.
Flavor – 3 – Distinctly bourbon forward, no hops, no yeast. The bourbon drowns out any other flavors although a bit of oak appears in the aftertaste. No ethanol (17.3 % ABV as marked on label) aroma or taste. Initial gastric burning occurs but quickly mellows. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl.
Palate – 3 – Thin, watery, soft carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 3.5 Disappointing. The appearance was typical of impy stouts in general, so no surprises there. The palate is unpleasantly thin. Bourbon dominates the aroma and flavor profiles to excess. There is little stout present, just cheap bourbon. Perhaps using barrels from a better distillery would have improved the overall experience. It leaves my lips slightly sticky and my fruit fly drinking friends curious but undecided.
Rating 3.25, rDev -23.3%

I'm sorry to nail this variant to the wall - just too much bourbon and not enough stout. And my fruit fly drinking buds have decided - one flew away and I have to fish the other's corpse from the dregs.

All of which brings up a question - is this technically part of the Dragon Milk Reserve series or not - the label lacks the word "Reserve".

 

beer for breakfast? dessert for breakfast? either way, solid imperial stout. cheers!!

 

Huh, so it *wasn't* just me having an off day with that beer. I had a similar experience with that one but thought I was off my game at the time. It really was a poor 4 pack then, apologies for sending you a bad one.
Curiously, I met a couple of guys down at the Bell's Barrel day who stated that the Triple Mash has not been as good of late. I thought they stated 2022 was the last "good" batch, but I may have remembered wrong.

 

I was so confused

 

.....and they shouldn't be, it says Imperial Stouts, not porters, Barleywines, light beers or......

 

......for the most part, I'm extremely disappointed in myself for not reading about the the Extreme Beer box of stouts......another absolute disaster!

 

That the Extreme Beer Box was Dessert/Pastry/Added Junk laden stouts. My bad!