Bear Valley Black Flag – Imperial Russian Stout
Author: Sudz | Filed under: Beer Reviews
Name: Black Flag
Brewery: Bear Valley Brewing
Overall Rating: A
Style: Imperial Russian Stout
Serving Style: 22oz
ABV: 11% ABV
IBU:100+!! Units
Price: $9.95
Aroma: A surprising floral bouquet with hints of chocolate and roasted malts.
Appearance: Beautiful DARK black with creamy tan head..
Flavor: Interesting complex hoppy flavors up front with a nice roasty chocolate flavor at the back end.
Mouthfeel: Light to medium body, a bit chewy with delicious lingering chocolate flavors.
Enjoyability: This is a very unique IRS (imperial russian stout), intense and complex hop flavors created by 4 different hop varieties (chinook, cascade, warrior, and colombus) balanced by 8 different malt varieties!. A very unique bitterness, rated at over 100+ IBUs but very well balanced by the malts. Great roasty chocolate finish at the end. Not for the amateur beer drinker.. This big beer will keep you coming back for more.
Tags: hops, impreial russian stout, irs, light body, stout
January 15th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
11% abv, 100+ ibu’s and a LIGHT BODY?!!?!!
Wow, how’d they do it?!!
January 15th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Light to medium i did say.. probably more on the medium side but i was rather toasted when writing this review.
January 15th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Sounds like you could chug 39 of these in a row… lol!!
January 15th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Quite possibly – you buy 39 for me and i’ll start guzzling.. RDY
January 16th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
Maybe it had a light mouthfeel.
January 19th, 2010 at 11:27 am
Low mash temp = more fermentable sugars, highly attenuating yeasties = more abv, less residual sugars. Low Mash Temp + Highly attenuating yesties = HIGH ABV / Light Body