Brau Brothers Rainwater Stout

Formerly brewed at Brau Brothers Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Lucan, Minnesota USA

Serve in Snifter

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Black with a lasting tan head. Aroma of chocolate, with a strong vegetable note and alcohol. Sweet licorice and chocolate flavour with some grainy malt, and hot alcohol

750 ml bottle a gift from Odeed. Nose is chocolate, port wine, some woody notes, and a slight hint of smoke-roast. Black with a small cinnamon tan head. Flavor is red wine-woody up front with some dark bitter chocolate in the background.

Thanks to Bob for the 750mL bottle. Poured deep brown with a fine, tightly-bubbled tan head. The aroma opened a bit tart, with vinous notes, cherry skins, and oak leading (all makes sense considering the Madeira barrel).. some coffee and cocoa beneath, but the barrel worked a bit too hard.. still enjoyable, though. The flavor started started the same way, with sour vinous notes and barrel, but more of the base beer came through afterward.. cocoa, ashy black patent, and well-roasted coffee settled onto the core.. coffee-inspired bitterness and grainy oak on the edges.. finished with a big dose of dry roasted malt with vinous notes and barrel. Medium-bodied with a choppy flow through the palate.. lots of good components in there.. overall some tasty stuff, and I really enjoyed the Madeira barrel treatment.

750mL dropped into HFB stemware. Dark brown/black with a decent sized tan head. Nose is bitter, chalky dark chocolate, oak, and a bit of roasted malts. Oak is quite astringent on the toungue without bringing any dryness. Bitter cocoa is present throughout and vanilla creeps in towards the end. Thin to medium mouthfeel. Solid Imperial stout with some impressive chocolate mimicry.

Bottle from Livefast, thanks dude. The stout pours oil chocolate black with a small but beautiful dark cocoa head. The aroma has sweet notes of chocolate some remnant perfumey bitter hops. The flavors of chocolate and sweet malts come through nicely on a creamy body with light bitter notes at the end. It has held up so well for two years with the cocoa and walnut notes still present and enjoyed.

Bottle 750ml.

Clear dark black colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, chocolate, dark malt, smoke notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110918]

bottle at papsø tasting. malty and roasted aroma. mild. flavor is roasted malts, licorice,caramel. solid. palate is thick

Bottle at Papsø’s - Thanks. Black - brown head. Burned malts, smokey, licorice, chocolate, coffee, hard roasted, nice smokey, vanilla, dark sugars, light yeasty notes, plums, raisins, oakey, nice wooden.

Pours a thick black that lets no light through. Thick golden head. Aroma is very nice. Taste is full of malty sweetness, coffee, and a bit of alcohol on the tail end. Fantastic!

(Sample at Papsø’s) Pours black with a medium, toffee head that laces the glass. Rich aroma of roasted malts, chocolate, sugar and alcohol. Soft carbonation, full body, creamy texture and a sweet finish. Taste is complex, sweetness from the malt with a bitterness from the roasting.

Bottle at Papsø. Pitch black coloured with a small beige head. Sweet and roasted aroma of oak and dark chocolate. Sweet and roasted flavour of dark chocolate, oak and liquorice. Roasted finish.