{"id":2741,"date":"2015-04-14T11:02:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T15:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/beer\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2015-04-14T11:02:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T15:02:55","slug":"review-soaring-wings-imperial-stout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/04\/14\/review-soaring-wings-imperial-stout\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Review: Soaring Wings Imperial Stout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6990,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/16947428968&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251104211707\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/16947428968&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-20 05:37:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-15 08:08:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 17:34:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 17:34:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"View &#039;Soaring Wings Imperial Stout&#039; on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/16947428968\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Soaring Wings Imperial Stout\"  width=\"480\"  height=\"640\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8773\/16947428968_56fbeec12f_z.jpg\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div title=\"3.9 out of 5.0\"><strong>3.9<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<small>\u00a0AROMA\u00a0<\/small><big>8\/10<\/big>\u00a0\u00a0<small>\u00a0APPEARANCE\u00a0<\/small><big>5\/5<\/big>\u00a0\u00a0<small>\u00a0TASTE\u00a0<\/small><big>7\/10<\/big>\u00a0\u00a0<small>\u00a0PALATE\u00a0<\/small><big>4\/5<\/big>\u00a0\u00a0<small>\u00a0OVERALL\u00a0<\/small><big>15\/20<\/big><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dark brown to black, almost no head. Aroma is really interesting. Lots of red-wine, very oak forward, a bit of charred wood. A lot of chocolate as well. Sweet, lots of residual sugars. chocolatey, oaky, tannic, lots of chocolate, good roast qualities. This is a really good beer. Pretty special. would love to try again.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;d love to have more beers from this brewery. This was an impressive representation of the Imperial Stout style and despite this place being totally off the radar among beer geeks, it&#8217;s a place worth checking out.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3.9 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0AROMA\u00a08\/10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0APPEARANCE\u00a05\/5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0TASTE\u00a07\/10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0PALATE\u00a04\/5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0OVERALL\u00a015\/20 Dark brown to black, almost no head. Aroma is really interesting. Lots of red-wine, very oak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:17:42Z","apple_news_api_id":"6f1162f4-e844-4ae8-9a78-fad8d9ca8fd7","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:17:42Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AbxFi9OhESuiaePrY2cqP1w","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-reviews","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-Id","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7788,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/03\/27\/review-surly-darkness-2014-bourbon-barrel-aged\/","url_meta":{"origin":2741,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Review: Surly Darkness 2014 (Bourbon Barrel Aged)","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"3.9 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0AROMA\u00a08\/10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0APPEARANCE\u00a05\/5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0TASTE\u00a07\/10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0PALATE\u00a04\/5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0OVERALL\u00a015\/20 750ML Thanks Hoff for sending. 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