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Damnoë van Demn
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White Label Imperial Russian Stout Ardbeg BA, Russian Imperial Stout 11% Brouwerij Emelisse Goes the Netherlands. For the beer I will review today you don't have to run to the shop, you have it in your collection or you don't.  White Label Imperial Russian Stout Ardbeg BA is an old 2016 vintage bottle which was in my collection already for quite a while and once received as a present from Liane (this was one of the first craft beers I had let her try back than and that got her hooked hahaha) I waited for a good moment to open it, but after I saw a discussion in Beer Geeks a couple of weeks about another Emelisse vintage beer, and how good it still was, and that it would beat most BA beers these days, vs it is pure nostalgia, I simply could not resist. The year was 2016 when this got bottled, Kees Bubberman had just left the team a year before to start his own brewery and John de Vries continued on his own as their head brewer. White Label Imperial Russian Stout Ardbeg BA has an abv of 11%, to start with barrels like Ardberg are rare these days. So is it all based on nostalgia, how we look back at old Emelisse White labels?   Well after tasting this RIS barrel-aged on Ardbeg barrels I can say, HELL NO! The beer still stands tall, solid as a rock without any trace of olderness! Pitch black and there is even still a little carbonation, it pours dark brown foam (gone fast though) The aroma is a mixture of the Ardbeg barrel with peat, smoke, whisky, campfire, cacao and coffee. The mouthfeel is still thick and I tasted flavors like : peat, smoke, tobacco, dark chocolate, liquoride, umami, roast, wood, whisky and a super dry finish. This is simply amazing how the beer still rocks after all these years. 1000% loving it!! Cheers! #beertest #craftbeerporn #craftbeernotcrapbeer #beernerd #beersofinstagram #craftbeer #instabeer #beereview #bier #beerstagram #beergeek #untappd #dutchbeergeeks #dutchcraftbeer #hopsterren #craftbeercommunity #pivo #cervesaartesana #beersnob #ilovecraftbeer #bottleshare #barrelagedbeer #barrelaged #emelisse #ardbeg #russianimperialstout #whitelabel #vintagebeer @emelissebeer Photo Location : Warnsborn Arnhem the Netherlands.