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| This week we do an interesting taste-off. Early on in this series of posts we reviewed the Brandy Barrel version of Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout HERE. For this tasting we first tried Marshal Zhukov’s Stout–the base RIS that gets the star treatment to make it into Hunahpu’s spiced version. The bottle I had was from 2011 and was donated by my good friend Rob Wengler of Limited Release fame. Following this big beer we drank down Jim’s bottle of 2014 Hunahpu’s from 2014, lovingly retrieved directly from Hunahpu’s Day in Florida that year.
We served these into snifters and let them warm up a bit before tasting. For this session we had me (BJCP judge, homebrewer, stout lover), Jim Stroner (Tin Whiskers Beer-Vangelist, craft beer geek), Dave Manley (homebrewer, learned beer geek), and Sarajo (my wife and fan of non-hoppy beers.) Marshal Zhukov’s Imperial Stout
This is a big bad Russian Imperial Stout named for one of Russia’s greatest generals in WWII. Jim had tried this at GABF and it was on … |
Source: JABlog: A Minnesota-Centric Beer Blog
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