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Full Sail Top Sail Imperial Porter Bourbon Barrel Aged

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Full Sail Top Sail Imperial Porter Bourbon Barrel Aged - Imperial/Strong Porter

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 Percentile 
98
overall
Formerly brewed at Full Sail Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Strong Porter

Hood River, Oregon USA

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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
1913.88/5.03.84/5.0Winter9.85%78.9Snifter
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Commercial Description:
After its release in february 2007, top sail was aged for about 10 months in bourbon casks from kentucky. Top sail bourbon aged imperial porter has hints of chocolate, figs and oak. Cheers!
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 pantani (1894), Salinas, California, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/514/20
Jul 2, 2008  
Black with a thin tan head. Aroma is heavy bourbon, chocolate, oak, alcohol, light caramel. Taste is heavy bourbon which overshadows the chocolate sweetness, and roastiness of the beer, alcohol show mildly. Too much bourbon.


 matt7215 (942), Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/515/20
Jul 1, 2008  
bomber shared with sammy and hyde. my bottle from a trade with douglas88. pours black with a nice tan head. light penetrated this one to leave the brew looking only dark brown in the glass. big bouron nose and top of porter notes. sweet vanilla boubon flavours mixed with a very well made porter. chocolate and caramel with some dark fruit. good stuff but a bit rough and bossy. thanks for the bottle doug!


 TheEpeeist (1429), Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/516/20
Jun 17, 2008  
22 oz bottle, 2008. Some coaxing produces a small tan head atop dark brown. Nose is musty dark roast and fig. Brief creaminess that turns to alcohol with a tang. After the initial blast of bourbon, coffee and dark chocolate emerge. Dry finish with bitter licorice and peanut. Too much barrel overwhelms the base beer.


 inkubus27 (237), Highland, Indiana, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/57/103/517/20
Jun 9, 2008  
I love anything Full Sail does, so I’m super biased when it comes to rating their beers. But honestly this particular beer reminded me very very much of GI Bourbon County Stout. Not quite as strong, thick, and had a bit less of a bourbon aroma, but all together it was a very good example of a bourbon aged porter/stout.


 heemer77 (4294), Savannah, Missouri, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/514/20
Jun 8, 2008  
Noogfest ’08. The bodyw as perfectly black with a khaki head. I could hardly detect the barrel aging. The aroma was strong malt and chocolate. There was also some roasted coffee. The taste was coffee and chocolate. There was also some roast and green beans. Decent.


 Ibrew2or3 (2714), Safety Harbor, Florida, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Jun 8, 2008  
Courtesy of CigarCityBrew. Pours deep dark brown with mocha head. The aroma is inviting to pretty much irresistible. I get rich deep maltiness, chocolate, sweet molasses and some faint burnt malts. There’s also equal amounts of wood and bourbon notes that don’t cover up and hide the tasty base beer. The taste has way more bourbon and wood barrel notes in it than the nose led onto. I pretty much only taste bourbon with just faint malt and molasses sweetness out deep into the background. It grows on me though where the base goodness does start to peer through more and more as the ounces are consumed.


 tronraner (1905), Maryville, Tennessee, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/515/20
Jun 7, 2008  
At Noogfest Four-O. Pours blackish mahogany with beige head. The aroma is chocolate and bourbon, with some vanilla. Flavor is chocolate, alcohol, bourbon, vanilla, and nut shells. The aftertaste has an ashy quality. Pretty good stuff.


 pintsize (1042), Austin, Texas, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/515/20
Jun 4, 2008  
6-1-08 bottle shared at tasting
Big black color with a tan watery head. Smell is roasted malt, honey, caramel, cinnamon and bourbon. Flavor is similar but a hint more bourbon overwhelms the other aspects and still manages to have a fairly mild flavor overall. Mouthfeel is thin and a touch on the watery side.



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