Boaks Monster Mash Imperial Stout

Boaks
Brewed at High Point Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Pompton Lakes, New Jersey USA

Serve in Snifter

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Pours black with a very thin tan head that quickly disappeared. Pleasant aroma which I thought was a bit light for an imperial stout included notes of anise, roasted malt and just a bit of chocolate. The flavor was again roasted malt with some anise and chocolate. The finish was a bit chalky and dry

Draft: Poured a dark brown with a thick head. The aroma was roasted malts, chocolate, and a hint of vanilla. The flavor was strong, roasted malts, vanilla, chocolate and thick in the mouth. Overall, a cheap Impy, that is well worth the try.

Call me a homer (made in NJ) on this one, but this is one damn tasty IS. Pours a deep dark reddish brown color with an off white soapy head. Has an aroma of milk, soy, and roast. Has more of a milk stout taste. Starts sweet and creamy, then a nice hit of bitter and carbonation. Some chocolate notes on the finish. Subtle roast notes throughout. Good brew.

Pours a deep dark brown with a lingering, appetizing, tan head. Smells of BBQ sauce, with a little coffee, soy sauce, and fern. Flavor is smokey, woody, little coffee, salt, a significant balancing bitterness, fairly harsh and localized in the center of the back of the palate. A little sappy hop flavor as well. Overall flavor is soy saucy yet good (yet not my favorite). Plenty of flavors are able to come out even at lower temperatures. Definitely worth a try.

pours black with a medium mocha colored head...some small floaters throughout. aroma is milky with hints of tobacco, smoke, and spicy hops...also a mild sourness to it. flavor is very roasty with some burnt toffee, caramel, and tobacco. mouthfeel is lively yet very creamy with a long, lingering tobacco/roasty finish. tastes much better than the aroma.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown with surpisingly very little head, almost uncarbonated. What head there is is a slight tan that collars around the glass. Smoky, that’s what I pick up first when I smell this. I had to go check the bottle to see if this was smoked it had such a distinct smoke nose. Other than the smoke, coffee and dark bitter chocolate make their presence known in the nose. The frist sip is a good medium/heavy mouthfeel. The smoke is more subtle in the taste but is still there along with leather and some sweetness from the malt. Bittersweet chocolate also in the taste. The smoke aroma and taste is not what I expected nor not what I really wanted in my RIS.

Cheers to Jtclockwork for this bottle. Bours jet black and a little fizzy-er than I expected which provides a moderate head nearly instantly fading to a thin film. Nose is roast, cherries, sweet malt, wood, maybe some hops. Taste is semi bitter and big roast melded with some sweetness and as fruity as the description states. The first taste was clouded by a stinging a large amount of carbonation but improves with extended swirling. Overall a nice Imperial stout that’s too high in carbonation for the style. Not the best but what RIS is?

12oz bottle from jtclockwork. Pours dark muddied brown with big tan head. Aromas of roasted malts and mostly chocolate with some vanilla mixed in. Flavors of roasted malt, chocolate, light vanilla, and some booze. Mouthfeel is a little thin. Nothing too complex, but a tasty stout regardless.

From a bottle poured a dark brown color with a fair amount of head. Toatsed malty flavor with a lingering aftertatse.

7/25/10. 12oz bottle courtesy jtclockwork! Sour malty aroma with some roast. Salty, not quite soy sauce, flavor with some roast, but not much going on. Eh.