Brew It Up! Czars Tar

Brewed by Brew It Up!
Style: Imperial Stout
Sacramento, California USA

Serve in Snifter

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Draft...sounds like the bottle does not do this one good. poours heavy charchol black with a very thin coffee color head. coffee start with a chocolate middle and non-bitter finish. the name is fitting-looks like something you’s lay on the roads or roof

Rich ebony with bronzed-ruby shimmers at the edges. Creamy, semi-rocky caramel foam. Bottle-conditioned. Soft aroma of buttered chocolate and caramel surrounded with rich smoke wafts. Ravishing java, coconut, shoe polish, and ink interplay touched with charcoal, dark chocolate, vanilla, crackery malts, and muffled dark fruity esters. Soft and flowing on the tongue. Gentle carbonation. Mix of bittersweet chocolate and oxidized black malt flavors with sporadic earthy hops teases. Takes on a flavorsome coarse, grainy note from the copious amount of black malts. Hints of vanilla and ink deepen the malts. Malts are borderline acrid, which lends a bit of dryness to offset the sweetness and bring out the vanilla flavors. Finishes elegantly with seared malts and lightly toasted pale malts crowned with rich dark chocolate and juicy, earthy hops. Hats off to these guys. This is a beauty. Big thanks to Mitch!

Dark brown, almost black, thin tan foamy ring. The nose is roasty and sweet, lots of coffee, and some dark fruit. Starts sweet with dark fruit, moves into some roast and coffee, and finshes earthy and dry with a good lingering hop bitterness as well. I enjoyed this one.

Bottle. Dark beer with no head. Aroma of brown sugar, molasses, stone fruit, caramel... Very rich and thick. Flavor of roasted malt with some bitterness to back it up, but mostly it’s a bit fruity to go with the good backing - stone fruits, figs, coffee. There’s some alcohol warming of course, but it’s very complimentary. A nice one.

Bottle thanks to bhensonb sampled on 7/26/09: Pours an opaque black with dark mahogany edges and a small ring of light tan bubbles. Sweet smoky dark caramel malty nose has a touch of tobacco and dark fruits. Starts with good fullness and sticky dark caramel and chocolate flavor before a drier roasty dark chocolate finish. A decent imperial stout with some smoky roasty complexity.

bottle thanks to bhensob. poured black with a beige head that stayed for the life of the beer. aroma was chocolate, fudge, dark roast, alcohol, and what seemed to be a little molasses. flavor was bitter coffee, bakers chocolate, and some sort of small fruity aspect. body was almost heavy with medium carbonation.

Eclipse black color. Small to no head. Aroma is roasty malt, chocolate and vanilla. A medium to full bodied Russian Imperial Stout. Malts are caramel, chocolate and vanilla, with a hint of coffee. Hops are slightly bitter. Nice soft carbonation. Sooth taste. A touch roasty and slightly sweet. Somewhat understated. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is very slightly sweet.

From tap at the brewpub. Pours dark brown to black with a small tan head. Smooth dark and roasted malt aroma, vague breadish note. Sweet dark toffee malt flavoured. Light sweet and hardroasted malt finish. Roasted, light ashtray and mild bitter flavoured finish.

Draft. An almost opaque dark red-brown beer with a lazing brown head. The aroma has strong notes of roasted malt lending it a bit of acidity, combined with a note of chocolate. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, chocolate, and roasted malt, leading to a dry roasted finish.

Name: Czar’s Tar Imperial Stout
Date: July 06, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: black, fine tan head, drippy lace
Aroma: sweet chocolate and roasted aroma
Flavor: sweet dark chocolate flavor, nice roasted brings in a coffee character, dark caramel adds richness, balancing bitterness follows the dark chocolate
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 14/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4