 gracefullypunk (272), Washington, USA
Apr 14, 2009 Nearly black with a cappuccino head. Wonderful chocolate and malt smell with slight vanilla notes. Smooth and full taste. Taste begins with roasted malt, moves to coffee and ends with a bitter dark chocolate. Love this beer.
jrob21 (1252), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Apr 12, 2009 Finally rating this one after a couple of trys. I did not get a good enough experience the first time around and hence am going at this one again. This time though I picked up a complex and unique aroma of roasted coffee with a tinge of vanilla. The flavor was vanilla first with the roasted malt flavor coming through a little later in the palate. The roasted malt at first was like a coffee experience but soon that faded, possibly as it warmed, into a more chocolate malt and cocoa flavor. All of this combined with a creamy milky sort of texture reminds you of a chocolate milk sort of experience. Ridiculous, ridiculous sort of beer.
Anker (305), Hillerød, Denmark
Apr 12, 2009 Bottle gratefully kept and shared by plovmand.
Pours black, unfortunately with no head due to the late hour..
Aroma is coffee, roasted malt, chocolate a little liquorice and then again coffee, very smooth.
Flavour is also loads of smooth coffee, dark chocolate, malt and hops. but a little to much alcohol is present. A creamy and full bodied mouthful. Great brew!
plovmand (1590), Helsinge, Denmark
Apr 12, 2009 Rating # 1000. Bottle shared with hallinghansen. Pitch black body with a creamy steady brown head. What a sight! Lovely aroma of lots of coffee and roasted malts. Notes of chocolate and sweet tobacco as well. The coffee is for sure in the flavour and the bitter chocolate notes hits your taste buds and makes your mouth drool. Nice balanced roasty notes and in the finish the hops really shows off. The body is very creamy and smooth. Overall its a very balanced and well crafted Impy stout.
altehkiller (71), , California, USA
Apr 10, 2009 Absolutely amazing! an imperial stout that has a massive amount of coffee flavor with a good amount of chocolate to boot. it is complex yet smooth, and gets you drunk in a hurry! quite possibly one of the best stouts ever created! now if i can just get my hands on that barrel aged version...
Allen (1285), Switzerland
Apr 7, 2009 Bottled 750ml. Courtesy of badlizard. Appearance: It pours a pitch black beer with an average sized dark beige head. Good retention and beautiful lacework. Aroma: A huge amount of coffee which is accompanied by burnt caramel, mint, plum, ginger and candy sugar. Wonderful hops are detectable too. Flavor and palate: Very thick creamy mouthfeel. Smooth. The alcohol is nicely hidden. Tarragon, burnt caramel, strong coffee, plums, ginger and mint toffee showing up. Surprisingly sour. Great hop profile. Coffee, grapefruit and mint in the finish which is pretty dry and lasting for a very long time. Overall impression: A great beer. The finish is absolutely fantastic. Thanks a lot badlizard!
jeff789 (359), Pennsylvania, USA
Apr 6, 2009 This is supposed to be an end all beer... Much in the same way expedition was supposed to be an end all beer this didnt do it for me the way i would have like... It was an excellent beer, but on a personal level it wasnt my favorite... It was a ton of coffee, was very solidly brewed, balance was there, but wasnt top notch in flavor for me... I would recommend this beer to every one, and i will try this again.. By the by, cant really taste the 12%...
gorditoabd (162), San Diego, California, USA
Apr 5, 2009 750 bottle. Pours a liquid chocolate brown-black, full, lacey head. Perceptible aroma or dark chocolate and espresso, even from a distance. Bittersweet taste fits the aroma very well, with a full body giving way to toasted caramel. This has perceptibly high alcohol, the only thing keeping it short of Serpent’s or Expedition Stout for me, but it is mitigated by the wonderful preceding flavors. Big ups. I like it.
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