BrewDog Riptide

Brewed by BrewDog
Style: Imperial Stout
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Serve in Snifter

Doft: Choklad, kaffe Färg: Nästintill svart Smak: Mycket lakrits, lakrisal, kaffe, choklad En mycket bra stout för höstkvällen!

Bottle from Systembolaget, Stockholm, Sweden. Pours a pitch black with a high but kind of thin light brown foam. Aroma has a lot of coffee and a slight grassy note. Taste is slightly roasted with a bit of bitterness, or well, quite a bit for a stout. Mouthfeel is thin for such a dark beer.

Bottle 33 cl, SB. Pours pitch black with a big creamy brown head leaving lace. Aroma is roasted malts, dark fruits, sweetish, caramel, lightly fruity, a bit soapy, chocolate and licorice. Flavor is acidy, fruity, very roasted, peaty, has some sweetness, a bit phenolic, fidges and chocolate. Finishes longlived dry bitter with fruity tones.

A - Nice Dark Brown with shades of Orange. No insane darkness or anything like other styles of this beer. Few Bubbles, No head and no lacing. S - Some faint notes of chocolate and smoke, maybe a bit of sweet caramel. T - a lot of different things going on but nothing overpowers the other. Sweet Leathery taste along with some smoke. Not sure of the yeast but I might be ale Belgian as I get some of the nose and the taste. The dry finish also leads me to thing its a Belgian ale yeast. M - thin D - Given the mouth feel and taste this is fairly drinkable. Given its viscosity I can drink a couple of these whereas something thicker, I could not.

Had this at the Paisley Beer Festival in April 2007. Cask, gravity dispense. Black ruby in colour with a thin off white head which quickly disappeared. Strong intense aroma of crispy bacon and black coffee. Big riot of flavours from the complex dark malt with crispy salty bacon, soya sauce, bitter chocolate and dry liquorice, giving way to sweet burnt caramel. Hard to detect the hops in this as the sweetness grows into a wine gum and port finish. Really enjoyed this imperial stout and the sweetness reminded me of a strong Polish Imperial Stout that I can’t remember the name of. Highly recommended, do try this in cask if you get the chance.

Surprisingly disappointing, and disappointingly unsurprising. Just a thin, sour, alcoholic stout. None of the complexity of an imperial, none of the sweetness, or hop notes of an American stout. Just a dark, sour, thin sort of Ale. Love the Brew Dog stories, though.

pours black with a thin tan head and minimal lacing. aroma is chocolate malt, and heavy red wine. The taste has notes of chocolate malt, currants, blackberries, and a dark red wine such as malbec or zinfandel. finish is more traditionally stout-like than the taste. a very interesting, unorthodox beer.

coffee, licorice, black, minimal head, medium sweetness, soft carbonation, full body,