 beerbuzzmontreal (2674), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Apr 3, 2008
Pours a pitch black color with a thin beige head. Good aroma of coacoa and roasted malt. Good flavor of coacoa and roasted malt, no alcohol presence at all. The body is light with a creamy texture and gentle carbonation.
haukur (655), Reykjavik, Iceland
Jul 22, 2008 bottle at the ginger mans with the nyc crew. Very strange but good imperial stout. Interesting aroma, very weak when cold but got better when it heated up, raisins and vanilla the most obvious notes if I remember correctly. Complex taste, some tiny sourness, some garlic (same that I found in the nogne o imp st), vanilla, sherry, roast and pepper. Nice and full of character
beerlady (213), lucerne, Switzerland
Jul 21, 2008 totally dark color,beige layer
smells fruity and herbal the same time and bittersweet
tastssourishsweetish,coffee,fruits and herbs
aftertastebitterness,coffee,roasty,hops,fruit,warm alcohol
very special
JK (2356), Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA
Jul 18, 2008 Interesting stout in the English style. Lots of pressure under the swing top, but very little carbonation on the palate. Black with brown sediment. Some lactose flavor, which I don’t care for very much. Also roasted walnuts, chocolate, tobacco, very mild European hops, sugar, honey, and grain. Some citrus in there, as well as oak and sourness. The flavor really opens up as the beer warms. BFM has done better, but this is unusual and good.
nearbeer (1101), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Jul 13, 2008 330 ml. One of the blackest beers ever, with a small but lasting halo of a head. Tart dry cherry dominates the aroma, with some coffee, vanilla, oak and char underneath. Initial taste is delicious roasty stout flavors: coffee, char, light cocoa, maybe some toasted wood. Quickly takes a turn to the tart fruit and yeasty flavors that mostly dominate the rest of the glass. It seems I detect some pepper and tea leaf, now that I read the bottle. The bottle also says: "extremely complex"; I guess I’m just a simpleton, cause I don’t care for so much sour yeast in a stout. Medium-heavy body is sometimes smooth, sometimes too frothy; but is nicely balanced between sticky and dry. Try Alvinne Podge or Hercule Stout instead, for a good Belgian take on the style.
JoeMcPhee (3643), Jackson Heights, New York, USA
Jul 7, 2008 Dark black beer with fairly creamy brown head. Aroma is quite different from any other imperial stout that I’ve ever had. Licorice, black pepper, toasted barley malt and a touch of lighter lactic tartness. Fairly vineous and woody with a light oaky/herbal character. Flavour is very vineous. Lightly herbal and spicy with some black pepper, cocoa, cardamon and a touch of vanilla. It is actually a nice change from the usual US imperial stouts. Lingers with a bright red wine tannic type of quality. As it warms it takes on a lightly tobaccoish quality. Doesn’t taste like a 10% beer. Very unique but pretty decent.
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