Purchased: 22oz bottle (Batch #8) bought at West Lakeview Liquors in Chicago, IL; 2013
Style/ABV: Russian Imperial Stout, 8.0%
Reported IBUs: ?
Happy Mother's Day!!! I feel like today is the perfect day to drink Spiteful Brewing's Good For You Stout! Oh yeah, because you are great! Good For You!!! Wooo! About Spiteful:
Wow, I wasn't expecting this beer to pour as dark or aggressive as it did. This one pours into an inky black body, with two fingers of deep, dark brown head. The head is thick and bready and dayum. You catch the slightest brown tones on the edges when held to a bright light, but even then, this is a mostly obsidian-dark, opaque beer. The head retention is nice, leaving some lacing, and alcohol legs that remind you of this beer's true intent.
The aroma on this is earthy roast, macaroons, cacao, earthy bitterness, hop bitterness, slight anise and tobacco, and some big boozy complexity. The aroma here isn't overly floral, but what you do pick up on is aggressive.
This beer definitely brings the roast to the taste, with a lot of roast, earthy coffee, dark fruit booziness, berries, earthy hop bitterness, growing citrus and wood, and some faint anise. There's a spirit note in here, maybe spiced rum...it's earthy and roasty and bitter, and has good coating on your mouth.
This one has nice acidity, hop bitterness, booze, and elusive fruitiness/berries to lend some drinkability and cut through the mouthfeel. It's not as chewy as some RIS. The mouthfeel is still pretty sticky and coats your mouth immensely. This one veers towards roast, hops, fruity booze, and sticky sweetness. I would call this full-bodied, with good carbonation, lots of roast, good hop bitterness to balance things out, and a sticky-sweet finish. The 8.0% is masked well, with fruity/spicy booze that isn't hot or fusel. Palate depth is okay for the style, complexity is good. Up front is some roast, berries, caramel, rum; this rolls into huge roast, coffee, dirt/earth, and hop bitterness, earthy hops, citrus; the back end is trailing roast and booze, cacao, warming alcohol, and a sticky-sweet finish. Nice stuff.
Rating: Above-Average (3.5 Untappd)
With the big players in this style, this one veers towards average, but scrapes by with a Light Above-Average. The way this coats your mouth works nicely, and there's some pretty complex flavors in this. This is on the boozy/sweet side of things, so I would compare this to Stone's RIS versus say...Hoppin' Frog's B.O.R.I.S.. Pretty good stuff, this would pair well with a burger, steak, chocolate cake, vanilla ice cream, smores, a cigar, or just as a sipping beer. This is local and priced competitively at around 9 or 10 bucks a bottle. Grab it if you can.
Random Thought: And...go fuck yourself.
Reported IBUs: ?
Happy Mother's Day!!! I feel like today is the perfect day to drink Spiteful Brewing's Good For You Stout! Oh yeah, because you are great! Good For You!!! Wooo! About Spiteful:
Tonight's beer is from Spiteful Brewing. These guys are so nano you have to check them out on Facebook or Twitter. Spiteful Brewing was founded in January 2010 by Brad Shaffer and Jason Klein. Like many brewers, the duo started out homebrewing. As of today, the brewery houses a 2.5 BBL Brewhouse and 5 BBL Fermenters. Currently, as a nanobrewery, Spiteful Brewing is hand delivering to stores and bars.This Stout is all class, from the name to the awesome bottle art. The back of the bottle reads:
"GFY STOUT attacks your nose with a healthy dose of ROASTED BARLEY. The assault continues to your taste buds as you pick up bitterness not only from the barley, but from FUGGLES and a hint of CASCADE HOPS.
Our ABRASIVE BEAR is there to remind you that sometimes the best thing to say is GFY! And if you don't know what GFY means, then... GFY!"The bottle art is by Taylor "Tugboat" Garbin. Clocking in at 8.0% ABV, this is an appropriately constrained Impy. It's within the typical style guidelines, but this is nowhere near extreme. Which is fine. GFY.
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| Spiteful G.F.Y. Imperial Stout |
Wow, I wasn't expecting this beer to pour as dark or aggressive as it did. This one pours into an inky black body, with two fingers of deep, dark brown head. The head is thick and bready and dayum. You catch the slightest brown tones on the edges when held to a bright light, but even then, this is a mostly obsidian-dark, opaque beer. The head retention is nice, leaving some lacing, and alcohol legs that remind you of this beer's true intent.
The aroma on this is earthy roast, macaroons, cacao, earthy bitterness, hop bitterness, slight anise and tobacco, and some big boozy complexity. The aroma here isn't overly floral, but what you do pick up on is aggressive.
This beer definitely brings the roast to the taste, with a lot of roast, earthy coffee, dark fruit booziness, berries, earthy hop bitterness, growing citrus and wood, and some faint anise. There's a spirit note in here, maybe spiced rum...it's earthy and roasty and bitter, and has good coating on your mouth.
This one has nice acidity, hop bitterness, booze, and elusive fruitiness/berries to lend some drinkability and cut through the mouthfeel. It's not as chewy as some RIS. The mouthfeel is still pretty sticky and coats your mouth immensely. This one veers towards roast, hops, fruity booze, and sticky sweetness. I would call this full-bodied, with good carbonation, lots of roast, good hop bitterness to balance things out, and a sticky-sweet finish. The 8.0% is masked well, with fruity/spicy booze that isn't hot or fusel. Palate depth is okay for the style, complexity is good. Up front is some roast, berries, caramel, rum; this rolls into huge roast, coffee, dirt/earth, and hop bitterness, earthy hops, citrus; the back end is trailing roast and booze, cacao, warming alcohol, and a sticky-sweet finish. Nice stuff.
Rating: Above-Average (3.5 Untappd)
With the big players in this style, this one veers towards average, but scrapes by with a Light Above-Average. The way this coats your mouth works nicely, and there's some pretty complex flavors in this. This is on the boozy/sweet side of things, so I would compare this to Stone's RIS versus say...Hoppin' Frog's B.O.R.I.S.. Pretty good stuff, this would pair well with a burger, steak, chocolate cake, vanilla ice cream, smores, a cigar, or just as a sipping beer. This is local and priced competitively at around 9 or 10 bucks a bottle. Grab it if you can.
Random Thought: And...go fuck yourself.
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