Cigar City Marshal Zhukov’s Imperial Stout - Bourbon Barrel-aged

Brewed by Cigar City Brewing
Style: Imperial Stout
Tampa, Florida USA

Serve in Snifter

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Bottled . A pitch black beer with a thin dark brown head. The aroma has notes of soy sauce, bourbon, and wood. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, wood, and bourbon, leading to a dry roasted, woody finish.

@dstructos Daks Back-growler-pours no head and black color that sheets the glass. Aroma is sweet bourbon, cherry, dark malt. Taste is bourbon, ashy-dark malt, secondary bourbon.

Bottle from Craig at Jan & Charlottes 09.04.11 cheers Jan & Charlotte Pours black with a brown head and with oil slicks lacing steadily down the inside of the glass. The aroma is straightforward it is bourbon. Flavours of smooth dark chocolate, with a smooth coffee roastedness. Really warming beer from the alcohol but this side of it came across as a bit harsh. Well crafted I’m sure but not totally my thing. A7 A4 T8 P4 Ov14 3.7

Draft at Rattle N Hum Cigar City event. For a bourbon barrel aged beer this one could of used a hell of a lot more aging. I was getting no bourbon in either the aroma nor the flavor. Overall a great Impy Stout but as a bourbon barrel aged beer this one was a lousy example.

Tap at Rattle’n’Hum. Blueberry, warming alcohol, sweat, vanilla. Moderate barrel character, thankfully not too much, but I still prefer the beer without.

UPDATED: JUN 26, 2011
Name: Marshal Zhukovs, Bourbon Barrel
Date: March 12, 2010
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewery
Appearance: black, fine tan head, drippy lace
Aroma: sweet roasted malt aroma, touch of bourbon and vanilla
Flavor: rich roasted malt flavor, dark chocolate bitterness, touch of bourbon brings in a vanilla sweetness, oak melds well with the roasted malts

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.6/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *** /4

Name: Marshal Zhukovs, Four Roses
Date: March 12, 2011
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewery
Appearance: black, fine brown head, drippy lace
Aroma: big roasted aroma, hot bourbon, touch of oak
Flavor: rich roasted flavor, bitter dark chocolate, touch of caramel, oak blends well with the heavy roast

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.7/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *** /4

Thanks to whomever brought this growler to the Woodshop 5.0 tasting. dark brown/black, boozy flavor, some notes of soy.

black, thin red-brown head. Sugary, bit of rotten fruit and coffee, light vanilla and oak. Flavor has more coffee, burnt notes, chocolate. Very sweet, pruney nose, heavy sugar. Bit overly ashy and stinging sugars, but there is more balance here than most ccb.

32oz growler pours an oily, opaque black with zero head. Legs like a scotch. Nice, milk chocolate aroma, sweet, light booze, vanilla, dried fruits, cherries. Flavor has some nice components but it just doesn’t mesh really well; milk chocolate, light coffee, toasted bread, light oak. Full bodied, dry finish. A touch hot.

Draft. Small brown head atop brown-black body. Aroma is moderately sweet, bittersweet chocolate, some Bourbon, vanilla. Taste is moderately sweet, alcohol/Bourbon, some chocolate, light roast. Smooth medium-full body.