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Victory: Storm King Stout

This Russian imperial stout is/was brewed by Victory in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, USA. It's achieved an overall score of 66.91%. Based on 1 tasting, the average ABV is 9.10%.

Historical Community Tasting Notes

Preserved from the RateBeer community archive (circa 2000–2018)

12 oz. bottle poured into a snifter. Pours jet black with a creamy light brown head that leaves excellent lacing on the snifter. The aroma is of sweet malt with a roasted barley character, hints of coffee and a wonderful hoppiness. The initial flavor is of moderate roasted, malty sweetness rolling into a chocolate and coffee taste. The finish is l
UPDATED: JUL 12, 2009 12 oz. into sniffer. Oil black pour with a "Creamy beige" head that lingers and laces. Aroma is rich and chocolaty with some molasses, vanilla, cherries, raisins, and a faint and pleasant hop bitterness. Delicious rich flavor that sin;t quite as sweet as the aroma - smokey bitter molasses and coffee. The flavor seems a bit
Pours Dark! with an off-white head. Aroma of roasty malt. The first flavor is a surprise of kickin hops - I say surprise because I was expecting a rich sweet malty flavor following the aroma. Finishes with another blast of biter hops. If youre a hop person, this could be the Stout for you. Not my "cup of tea".

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Date and Time Container Pub/Place and Where Strength ABV Colour Score Components Score Descriptive word(s) Book No.
20th Apr 2009 at 6:50 pm bottle TJ Brewsters (Four Points Hotel bar, LAX airport), Los Angeles, California, USA 9.10 black Taste: 76.47%
Head: 88.89%
Aroma: 60%
Ease: 33.33%
Clarity: 100%
 66.905% extreme 293

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Other Beers (etc.) by Victory

Apart from Storm King Stout, Hop Horizons lists 14 others by Victory. These are:
Dirt Wolf Double IPA
Golden Monkey
Golden Monkey (aged 7 years)
Headwaters Pale Ale
Hop Devil Ale
Hop Wallop
Kirsch Gose
Moon Glow Weizenbock
Prima Pils
Sour Monkey
Summer Love
Swing Session Saison
Vital IPA
Yakima Glory Ale

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