Victory Storm King Imperial Stout

Brewed by Victory Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Downingtown, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Snifter

Pours black with a glint of ruby at the bottom and a small tan head. Smells strongly roasted with some cedar wood tones that blend together exceptionally. Taste is very, very roasty with a strong cedar flavor, not cigar box or humidor cedar (Spanish cedar), but a sturdy Northern US cedar (similar to oak in the dry flavor). Full-bodied with a smooth texture and very soft mouth-carbonation, Victory Storm King Imperial Stout finishes dry, a bit too dry for my taste (in an imperial stout).

Pouring this beer, it looks like crude oil, only with a mocha head and it doesn’t stink. Coffee and chocolate dominate an aroma that is thick and pungent. Maybe a suggestion of muscatel raisins. Big flavours of the same with added plumminess and prickly carbonation. A beer better suited to drinking with a pipe filled with cherry tobacco and I wish I’d waited to sample this in such a setting late at night. Big and tasty.

Till att börja: Ett helt fantastiskt öl. Ett oerhört givmilt beige skum ovanpå den svart ölen. Smakerna är enastående av mörk choklad, kaffe och nötter. Smaken är gräddig, den är ljuvlig, den varar länge, den har en perfekt bitterhet. Den mörka chokladen som dominerar smaken lämnar en viss torrhet som gör att det räcker att suga på gommen för att återuppleva drycken länge.

35cl bottle birthday present. Good off white head, Deep amber pour. lovely imperial stout, yummy!

Bottle @ home from trade with Leighton. Pitch black color, full light brown head that leaves good lacing. Smell is a fantastic mix of roasted malts, hops and a hint of sweetish vanilla. Taste is a fantastic balance between roasted malts, hops, lightly wood and bitter with bitter dark chocolate in the finish. Medium but perfectly suitable carbonation and a medium to full body.

355 ml bottle bought @ Bierzwerg.de. Pours very dark brown, close to black, with a rather small frothy mocha head that slowly dissipates while leaving some lacing and trace on the glass. Smell is sweet with roasted malts, vanilla, coffee, milk chocolate, hints of resinous wood and fudge. Taste is slightly sweet and quite bitter with heavily roasted (almost burnt) malts, quality coffee, wood, smoke, resin, pine, bitter chocolate and hints of vanilla. Finish is dry and very bitter with coffee and oily pine.

Aroma of floral hops and strong coffee malts with subtle leafy, earthy notes. Extremely black color with a big brownish foam top. Flavors are mostly coffee, black liquorice, chocolate with a pleasant hoppy bitterness. Overall, not a big fan of Stout’s but this is a pretty solid one. I’d give this a B- rating.

aroma is chocolate with a citrus hop, nice black color with decent lacing, taste is chocolate with a pine, citrus hops and a little heat fome the alcohol, really sticks to your palate, great beer