Angel City Rahsaan Roland Kirk Stritch Imperial Stout

Formerly brewed at Angel City Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Los Angeles, California USA

Serve in Snifter

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Bottled at Sorbon, Bromma, Sweden. Pours out in a dark brown, almost black colour with a small bubbly tan-coloured head. Sweet aroma of brown sugar, chocolate-sauce, soy and hot alcohol. Full-bodied with rich and dense notes of dark chocolate, burnt sugar, soy, peppery alcohol and burnt malts. Long hot and sweet finish of burnt malts, dark chocolate, caramel and alcohol. Flavorful but to unpolished and boozy for me.

651mL. Clear, deep ruby pour. Larger tan head. Thicker lacing. Nose is sweet cherry juice with powdery dark chocolate. Taste is dark chocolate with tangy dark berries. Quite nice. Gritty, soil, earthy chocolate. Much better than expected. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

22oz bottle: Pours a barely transparent dark mahogany with a stringy-lacing beige head. Has a sweet dark caramel and milk chocolate nose with a touch of oxidation. Starts with decent fullness and toasty dark caramel malts and some astringent earthy bitterness before a drier warming finish. Could use a little more balance, but a decent attempt at the style.

Bottle. Pours deep, dark brown with thick, frothy beige head; decent retention and some lacing. Aroma is roasted malt, espresso, dark fruit (raisins and plums), earthy hops, and light vanilla. Flavor is malt dominate with supporting dark fruit esters and faint hops; dry finish with notes of chocolate and vanilla. Medium body and carbonation with high warmth.

Bottle shared by CaptainCougar. Pours clear black with a medium, frothy tan head, medium retention with good lacing. Aroma is roast, coffee, and dark chocolate malt, prunes, licorice, figs, and dates with woody and earthy hops. Flavor is malt dominant, dark fruity esters, medium hops and bitterness with a dry finish. Full body, medium warmth and carbonation.

(22oz bomber thanks to bu11zeye) clear deep brown with creamy tan head. Nose of raisin, cream, chocolate chips and cocoa. Taste of fudge, rich chocolate, well carbonated body with a long chocolate linger.

(22oz bottle) Pours a mahogany body with a small beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, anise, raisins, and chocolate. Flavor of roasted malt, earth, caramel, coffee, and metal pipe.

Bottle courtesy bu11zeye. Pours a dark reddish brown, with a ring of tan head. Aroma is dark roast, malts and a bit of chocolate. Flavor is sweet chocolate that mixes with some toasted malts and grains. Finishes a touch sour with many dark roasted notes.

Bottle from bu11zeye. Dark pour with a big tan head. Aroma is alcohol, vanilla, and chocolate. Taste is roasted, some chocolate, and maybe some licorice.

Bottle from Sj. Nice thick black sh pour. Nice big roasted / cpffee aroma and taste. A nice dry chocolate finish.

21-Jan-11 (22-oz bottle: Purchased 30-Dec-09 for $4.99 at Texas Liquor in Carlsbad, CA) This is without a doubt the best Angel City beer I’ve tried over the years, by far. A delicious and highly flavorful confection of milk chocolate, licorice, marzipan, chocolate milk, and prunes is balanced beautifully by roasty, dry and bitter flavors of dark toast, ashtray, black coffee, and dark chocolate. The nose is more straight-forward, but no less enjoyable or balanced, boasting aromatic scents of coffee, toast, chocolate bar, licorice, brown sugar, and a touch of earthiness that is presumably the work of one year of aging. It’s full-bodied on the palate, but never comes across as heavy, syrupy, or cloying. Carbonation is light-medium, and though it’s fairly sweet, the beer finishes dry on the palate with some light tannins. Dark-brown in color with good clarity, and the beige head pours to half an inch before settling to a wide, creamy ring and depositing a few spots of lace on the glass. Perhaps the extra 13 months of aging has benefited this beer, but I find this bottle has been emptied quite quickly, and so has the last glass. I know Angel City doesn’t typically elicit excitement in the local beer scene and I’ve been rather critical of their beers over these many years, but I’ll eagerly give credit where credit is due. This Imperial Stout is really delicious and worth seeking out.