11 % ABV. Brewed in Collaboration with Brouwerij Maenhout, Belgium.
Boom Island Brewing, Minnetonka, MN.
(well, not yet...this label gives the old Minneapolis address.)
I'm guessing this was an older bottle, though there wasn't too much dust on it when I plucked it from the shelf.
Dark brown, just about black, largely opaque, creamy brown head, lasting long, drifting down.
In the nose: Belgian yeast, coffee,
chocolate, caramel & toffee. Dark fruits. Not too big, but an omen of things to come.
In the mouth: Big flash of carbonation from the start, followed by massive malt, rich cocoa, coffee, bittersweet chocolate, dry and tasty. Besides the usual traits of the Russian Imperial Stout, we also get the telltale symbols of a Belgian stout, through malt or yeast or more. A Belgian-style RIS is gonna be different than a regular RIS and not deliver what I'm usually looking for, per se. It's a wholly different animal, but one I still enjoy.
We brewed Kollusion with coffee from the Dunn Brothers Coffee North Loop location. They roasted a medium Sumatra on the morning of the brew day. As our brewery filled with luscious coffee aroma, we added Belgian chocolate to complete the flavor profile. The result is this big, bold, rich yet balanced Russian Imperial Stout.
The above is what I cribbed from Untappd. Here's how the label of the bottle reads:
An American secretly collaborated with a Belgian, and they're influenced by Russian! The result is Kollusion, a robust Russian Imperial Stout brewed in partnership by Boom Island Brewing and Brouwerij Maenhout. Specially roasted coffee beans from Dunn Brothers North Loop conspire with rich Belgian Chocolate to create irrefutable evidence of collusion at it's finest.
The skinny on Kollusion: This Imperial Russian Stout pours jet black with espresso colored head, it's surprisingly light on the palate with notes of rich dark malt, coffee and chocolate, and the presence of the of the beer's 11 % ABV as it warms.
Once more, though, I find that I could have just copied and pasted the above from the website, instead of straining my eyes. Got to check that stuff first.
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