Three Floyds Yella Rrari Barrel Aged Pale Imperial Stout. With vanilla beans coffee and cacao nibs added.
13.2% ABV. Three Floyds Brewing, Munster, Indiana.
Mostly opaque, dark brown, small brown head.
In the nose: big vanilla, coco, pinch of coffee. Mega malty. Sweet, rich, deep, inviting.
In the mouth: complex, rich, rewarding. Big sweetness at first, slowly smoothing out. Vanilla, cocoa, brown sugar, molasses. Intense, with alcohol breaking through the barriers. Not as full bodied as I want in a beer this strong. Is that where the “pale” comes in? Oh, well, it is what it is, and what it is is delicious.
This is a beer I tucked away when it came out last year and saved it in a cooler at work until a few months ago. This is bottle #4. How I wish I had the cash to buy enough of beers like this to last me through the years. Wouldn’t that be something? Alas.
A hulking, decadent Pale Imperial Stout brewed with mountains of malted oats and aged for over a year in hand-picked bourbon barrels. Notes of chocolate are underscored with the addition of vanilla beans, Ehtiopian blonde roast coffee and copious amount of cocoa nibs. Yella’ Rrari's comin'!
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