Hale's Pikop Andropovs Rushin Imperial Stout
3.4
200 reviews
Seattle, United States
Community reviews
22 oz. bottle, pours black with a tan head. Aroma of rich roasted malt and dark espresso. Flavour of the same, with the roastiness being most pronounced. Medium body with a roasty finish. Solid, though underwhelming for an impy stout.
Bottled. A black beer with a dark brown head. The aroma has notes of alcohol and hops. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, chocolate, and caramel, as well as an edge of soy sauce.
Courtesy of Secret Santa Dec 10
Bottle: The aroma consists of espresso, dark fruits, chocolate, and a touch of.roast. it pours a dark brown with a two finger beige head. The flavor starts with moderately roast with some tart fruitiness. The finish has moderate roastiness, espresso, and a stronger tart fruitiness. Medium bodied with mild carbonation.
Bottle 22fl.oz.
Clear dark dark brown black color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, light brown head. Aroma is light heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, coffee, toffee - butter. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, burnt, smoke, dry, blackcurrant - blackcurrant tart. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110223]
Bottle at Papsø’s - Thanks. Pitch black - brown head. Kærnemælk, youghurt, sour/butter milk, coffee, carcoal, sourness, ok hoppy, chocolate. Gone wrong.
Bottle. Pours pitch black with a creamy tan head. The aroma is tar, roasted malt, chocolate, butter and tobacco. The flavour is roasted malt, slight acid, chocolate and coffee. Creamy textured. Butter and acid in the finish. Odd.
pitch dark, smooth brown head. looks real good.
aroma of hops , roasted grains , cofffe. well bleded smooth aroma.
flavor is coffee, flowers, roasted grains, ends roasted grains , coffee, roasted flavor lingers for a long time.
Bottle at Papsø.
Pitch black coloured with a medium sized beige head.
Sweet and roasted aroma of caramel and butterscotsch with oxidized notes.
Roasted flavour of caramel, liquorice and berries with oxidized notes.
Roasted finish.
22 fl oz bottle. Pours dark brown to black with a small tan head. Aroma is caramelish toffee, light roasted. Mild acidic and roasted caramelish flavoured. Acidic and dry finish.5-4-5-3-11=2.8
From tap at the brewpub. Pours hazy dark brown to black with a small tan head. Smooth roasted and chocolate malty. Sweet chocolate flavoured. Mild bitterness. Lasting sweetness and smooth chocolate finish.
Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of scrizzz. Pours a pitch black with a light brown head. Weird aroma of butter, roast and vanilla. Medium body, heavy dark roast, some raisins and a slight tartness. Again a strange butteryness. Astringent burned malts in the finish. Skewed, unclean and not entirely pleasant. 230211
This poured a straight black color with a small light tan head. Aroma was lots of dark roasted malts, and some dark chocolate too. Flavor was lots of dark chocolate, burnt almost, very roasty and some espresso too. I feel this one is highly underated and is at least an average impy.
Dark black color with a thick creamy long lasting brown head. The aroma is very rich and sweet, with chocolate, coffee, roasted malts, and some dark fruits. Taste is medium sweetness, full body, thick feel. Good.
PItch black body, brown head. Looks perfect. Aroma has strong coffee, medium chocolate notes, roastiness and alcohol. Quite harsh. Flavour has tobacco, ash, coal, dark fruits, soft maltiness. Very complex taste. Mouthfeel is full and smooth. Feels like crystalized acid. Excellent.
Bottle shared at Big Black Beer Bash 2011- thanks to whoever brought this. First beer I’ve had from the brewery with my last name- and the reason that if I ever started a brewery I couldn’t name it after myself. Pours a super dark opaque brown, almost black, with a small tan head. Aroma of roasted malts, berries, plums, burnt toast, and metallic notes. Flavor was strikingly similar to the nose, with the roast up front and the metal and berries later. Medium-full bodied, with a roasty and metallic mouthfeel and moderate carbonation. Not bad, but without the metallic element it would have been even better.
Tap @ Beveridge Place. Clear, dark brown pour with a dark brown, short head, no lace. Nose is toffee, oatmeal cookie dough and chocolate. Medium body, bitter chocolate, licorice, toffee and some oatmeal nuttiness. There is some tart cherry flavor in the glass I had, but it’s not unwelcome is an imperial stout. Late coffee/dark roast malt in the finish. Medium body and carbonation.
660 ml bottle. From Seattle, WA, USA. HHOK8.
Pitch black colour with tiny dark brown head.
Coffee, roasted malt, dark chocolate, caramel, oatmeal, bread and toffee in rich and complex aroma. Flavour is a bit more straight forward with ash, chocolate, coffee, burned malt and mild caramel notes. Delightful Imperial Stout. I like this a lot. I believe it’s a bit underrated.
Bomber. Thick dark pour with a dark brown head. Strong toffee aroma followed by strong toffee and mild coffee tastes. Nice and thick across the palate, with the perfect amount of carbonation. Might be the best imperial stout that I have had.
22 oz. bottle from the local QFC. This beer looks great. It has a nice dark frothy chocolate-colored head. It poured with the appearance of thick ink. Wow, this looks incredibly, especially considering it was $4.50! I’m surprised by all of the "sour" reviews. Quite hoppy for an imperial stout. A lot of pine coming from the hops, but it [the hop aroma] blends well with the roast, and subtle chocolate aromas. Also, I noticing a little bit of wood in the aroma. This beer has a lovely wood and lingering roast flavor that just sits on the palate. A touch of smoke pokes through, as well. I’m not picking up on any chocolate flavors; this beer is heavily leaning towards a roast flavor. At first, the beer seems as though it’s going to lack quality by having a watery texture, but something happens and the beer finishes nice and slick. Great brew, and I’m surprised it’s rated as low as it is.
West USA trip 2010. Bottled. The aroma has coffee beans, roast and chocolate. Black coloured imperial stout with a fluorescent brown head. The taste is quite bitter with some hoppy harshness. It is also sweet and soy-salty. Coffee beans and chocolate. No balance, but drinkeable.
22oz bomber. Opaque black with a nice rusty brown head that fades out into patchy oiliness. Very mellow and refined, a well put together beer. Creamy chocolate tones along with the low carbonation give it a milkshake-like mouthfeel. The rich malt tones overpower any alcohol notes, making this quite drinkable. Not much hop character to speak of, maybe a touch of orange citrus deep in there. Milky and smooth. Pleasantly atypical of the style.
Pikop Andropov’s Rushin’ Imperial Stout--2003 22 oz. Bottle. 7.50% ABV. (4.25 / 5.0) Espresso head. Dead black opaque color. Rich loose sediment. Sweet roasted fruit floral hop front. Sweet creamy thinish body. Crusty burnt sweet fruity espresso mild cocao flavor. Astringent citrus hop end. Sampled 4/26/2003.
"Pikop Andropov’s ""Rushin"" Imperial Stout"--2004 22 oz. Bottle. 7.50% ABV. 50 IBU’s. (3.5 / 5.0) Mild sediment. Opaque dark red black color. Mild lacy head. Mild roasted hop front. Rich citrus yeasty mild chocolate espresso body. Citrusy end. Not too good. Sampled 8/7/2004. Re-evaluate on 8/13/2004. Less citrusy. (4.0 / 5.0)
"Pikop Andropov’s ""Rushin"" Imperial Stout"--2005 22 oz. Bottle. 7.50% ABV. 50 IBU’s. (3.5 / 5.0) Flat espresso head. No sediment. Opaque dark jet black red drop color. Roasted mild hop front. Sweet rich smooth roasted doughy fruit tangy body. Clean mildly hot astringent hop spice pucker end. Sampled 3/30/2005.
Hale’s sources bottling of 22 oz. Bombers to contract brewer, that, unfortunately, produces a high percentage of infected brews and should be put out of business as a health risk.
Pours ink black with minimal tan head and some clings. Basic aromas of chocolate and coffee. Nutty and toasted malts, syrupy chocolate, a bitter finish in the taste. Not the best Imperial Stout but certainly drinkable.
Bottle. Black, small dense tan head which fell to a ring of bubbles. Aroma is roasty and sweet, with a little licorice and cola. Lots of roasty coffee, chocolate, and a good amount of char char on the taste of this. Rich smooth body. I enjoyed this, but there’s better ones at similar price points available to me.
Bottle. Blackish beer with reddish highlights and a brown head. Rich malt aroma with light coffee and light chocolate. Chocolate and rich malt flavor with light coffee. Medium-plus bodied. Chocolate and light coffee malt lingers with some backing hops to balance.
on tap at collins pub during real strong ale fest. chocolate notes, think filling, well balanced
Pours black with a strong sweet malty aroma. taste is a bit thinner than i would expect as well as weak compared to the over the top, dominating finish of bitterness, malt, and a surprising lingering coffee taste. slightly disappointing
22 ounce bottle from Vintage Cellar in Blacksburg, VA. Pours a dark brown color appearing black as oil in the glass. Nearly no head. Aroma is fairly offensive... sweet sugary malts, a faint hint of roast, chlorine and other chemical smells. Taste is chocolate, nuts and tart fruity notes. Thin bodied. I can’t tell if this is infected or just really bad.
This is the most terrible beer i’ve ever had to date. It poured dark black with a little bit of a tannish head you’d expect from an impy stout. The smell was some chocolate and some soy sauce as well. The flavor is very much like soy sauce. This thing would probably be a good marinade for steak. I can’t get that taste of soy out of my mouth. First beer i’ve EVER poured down the drain. SO LONG!!!
Bomber. Opaque with a lasting creamy quarter-inch head. Nose is varnish, nut shells and coffee. Taste is mixed berries with a vinous twang, some coffee, oats, bread dough and more fruity alcohol. Medium heavy body is watery and smoothly carbonated. All the elements of a good Impy are here except flavor and aroma.
Deep black with milk chocolate colored head. Aroma is nutty and roasted. Flavor is lightly astringent. Kind of ruins the beers. But good mouthfeel and decent finish.