8 Wired Batch 18
8 Wired Batch 18
Rated 3.500 by BeerPals
Brewed by 8 Wired Brewing Limited
Warkworth, Auckland, New Zealand
Style: Imperial Stout
12.5% Alcohol by Volume
75 International Bittering Units
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We always wanted to do something unique for our 8th batch but it came around so fast that we had to meet demand for our existing beers. So we decided to hold out until the 18th batch to produce a seasonal celebration of what 8 Wired has become over the last 18 months. Batch 18 is not for the faint of heart, nor the selfish. It's a huge celebration of flavour that's made to share and to savour. It's the product of our wildest imagination, brewed by hand with one goal - to make the most regal of imperial stouts. Batch 18 uses an enormous amount of malt, hops and a delicious Indian raw sugar, Jaggery. We fermented it with two different yeast strains, infused it with locally roasted fair trade organic coffee, then aged it for three months in American oak barrels. We did this not just for the challenge or the journey, but to showcase our philosophy of creativity and quality. We didn't just make it because we could, but because we had to, and it's the perfect expression of our raison d'être, ingenuity in flavour.
ID: 45754 Last updated 2 weeks ago Added to database 13 years agoKey Stats
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| Overall Rank | 3238 |
| Overall Percentile | 94.2 |
| Style Rank | 426 of 2646 |
| Style Percentile | 83.9 |
| Lowest Score | 3.7 |
| Highest Score | 4.3 |
| Average Score | 4.000 |
| Weighted Score | 3.500 |
| Standard Deviation | 0.000 |
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3 Member Reviews
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9
Pours deep darkness with a mocha colored head of foam. The aroma offers up dark roasted coffee, dark roasted malts, some burnt malts and a bit of smooth yum stricken fudge. I like. The taste is smooth and creamy and rich, wow wow. I get rich oily dark roasted coffee mixing with a fair amount of burnt malts and dark roasted malts. Toward the finish it picks up a pleasing bit of chocolate fudge yumminess that makes this thing sing in harmony. Nice!! I didn’t pick up any barrel aging notes but I don’t really care, it was darn tasty as is.
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7
Shared 500 ml bottle at local tasting. ABV is 11%. Pitch black colour, moderate tan head. Strong roasty and salty aroma, notes of tar, seaside and old rope, hints of smoke, also notes of oak / vanilla and coffee as expected. The flavour is fairly dry and very roasty with distinct notes of coffee, hints of smoke and oak / vanilla.
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7
Re-done as Batch 31. Drinks smaller than the abv implies - defibitely not a sugar bomb, which is nice. Ample roast right from the get go, and plenty of bitterness, some from the hops, some from the cofee. At first it's a little rough around the edges. The combo of hops and the fresh beans (which seemed a bit young) make it a bit of a green beer...but it calms down nicely and the better parts of the coffee come out eventually. Not elite, but solid.
