BrewDog Riptide

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

Serve in Snifter

In bottle. Black beer with a thick tan head. Nice coffee aromawith some caramel. Flavours of coffee, biter chocolate and roasty malt. A little sweet but this doesn’t overpower the malt character. A respectable beer.

Yummy aroma of roasted malt and chocolate. The taste is round and soft with a distinct touch of roasted malt. Unfortunately, the aftertaste has in my oppinion to much bitterness and also to much burnt taste with hints of cigarette ash.

Bottle 33cl, a dark beer with a low brownish head that goes quickly. Nose is intense on chocolate notes. Aroma is on brown malt, bitter chocolate, caramel, molasse and roasted notes, beer is between syrupy and creamy texture, fruit side is on vanilla and dry grapes. Aftertaste is long on roasted and coffee notes, quite sweet, very pleasant stout.

The nose was rich with bittersweet chocolate, dark coffee, prunes, and an occasional punch of a strong liquor that I’m not familiar enough with to identify. There were undertones of pine. The finish was long and bitter, full of hops. The sweetness came lightly upfront. The palate was soft, creamy and quite flat, but there was a spark to it because of the hoppy bitterness. I’m a newbie with stouts, but I think it was a complex one, not a starter.

Deep deep brown, almost black body with a light brown head. Tastes of dark chocolate, roasted coffe beans, vanilla and roasted malt. I also detect some licorice. I very much like the aftertaste with its coffe-like and roasted appearance which lasts and lasts. Nice! It feels a bit oily on the lips and when it first comes into the mouth, but feels gradually thinner which makes this stut enjoyable and interesting to drink. This is a seriously good, and strong, stout.

not for the faint hearted indeed. lovely though. solid, thick , sweet, herbal--its all there

Pours dark brown. Quite some frothy, brown head. Scent of licorice, alcohol and some burnt/roasted malt. Aroma begins with licorice, then the alcohol, quite a lot of it, and ends in burnt, yes burnt, not roasted, malt and alcohol. Weird bittersweet taste. Pick up some cough drop aroma as well, some Jägermeister/herbal shot. Expected better.

I didn’t really like the smell and taste, but that’s kind of normal with this style. Not really a bad beer, just not my style (and not the best in this style that i’ve had).