Beer Valley Black Flag Imperial Stout

Brewed by Beer Valley Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Ontario, Oregon USA

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle and served in my Stone IRS snifter: Oily opaque with some initial frothy tan head and minimal lace. Aroma has notes of burnt malt, mocha, prune, fig, grassy and slightly citric hops, leather horse saddle, and minor phenols. The taste is a nice sharp blend of smoky malts, molasses, and spicy hop bitterness. There is some coffee and peppery overtones along with a chalky old Hersey chocolate bar. The mouth feel is lush and oily but not thick as other in the genre. A bit underrated IMO, very enjoyable stout.

Bottle @ DØE Syd. Black with medium beige head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee and dried fruits. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, medium sweet, little liquorice and medium bitter.

22oz. into snifter. pours a frothy large tan with a mostly lasting head. Bottle conditioned black body. Aromas of toasted burnt heavy malt. Flavor is moderate bitter. finish is moderate bitter and lasting.

Bottle. Black with a large head. Aroma and taste of roasted malt, vanilla and some coffee. Also hops. Very bitter finish. Good but tuff.

Bottle. Huge head with excellent duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are roast malt, milk chocolate, caramel and hops. Strong milk stout.

Ingen stor doft men en mycket trevlig och lite torr smak av kaffe. Aning besk eftersmak. Lite småtrevlig. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Pitch black with large head. Coffee chocolate and vanilla aroma and taste. Bitter and burnt coffee beans aftertaste.

Black beer with a decent holding head that gets nicely fluffy. Good mixture of hops and malts. A good roasted and slightly coffee taste. Misses a small boost for me at the taste itself,the aftertaste with a good biterness, holds so long...

650ml bottle. Roast,raisins, coffee and dark chocolate aromas, quite strong. Full body and low carbonation. Colour is black , with nice tan head, fine bubbled and persistant. Taste is roasty, some sweet and fruity, getting bitter with increasing temperature/time. Aftertaste is long, bitter and warmer.

Botella. Pitch black colour, hufe briwn creamish head, looong lasting. Lovely aroma of roasted malt with chocolate, dark fruits, liqourice and coffee. Very good filling thick mouthfeel. Flavour has lots of roasted malt, dark fruits, coffee, chocolate, liqourice and bit vanilla too. LOVELY!

Black body with good tan head. Nose is of smooth chocolate and a little coffee. Taste is also very smooth, layers of flavour, liquorice, tobacco, cocoa, coffee, also charred notes. Enjoyed this a lot, more than previous IS rated, cos it went a lot longer, smotth and slowly warmed. .