BrewDog Riptide

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

Serve in Snifter

Bottle from Vinmonopolet. Tasted at 1337 Beer #1 A nice stout. Good execution, can go all night :) Aroma is very nice from you open the cap.

Bottle. Brown verging on black, large light tan head that never quite disappears. Aroma of mocha, toast, grass, vanilla. Hints of dark fruit and seaweed. Quite sweet at first with caramel and chocolate, then roasted bitterness and pine step up but don’t quite take over. Alcohol is there (perhaps seems stronger than 8%) but well-integrated. Not all that complex, but nice weight and balance. Very drinkable.

chocolate,dark black,not a bad beige head,fades fairly quickly,good feeling on the palate,good strong bitterness,nice beer just not up to De Molen or Emelisse

Pours black with a large tan head leaving plenty of lacing. Nose shows loads of sweet chocolate and roasted malt, with oatmeal showing up soon after. There’s quite a fair bit of hops present also providing spicy, piney and earthy characters. Flavours are dominated by the hops with loads of piney resinous notes hiding some roasted syrupy sweet malt. Almost cloying actually. Finishes with a bold bitterness, although it cant compete with the sweetness. Nice creamy carbonation, although if it was a little higher it might help cut through the copious amount of malt. Way too sweet but otherwise reasonably good.

Pours dark brown with some sparse carbonation. Smells of chocolate, molasses. Tastes of spice, chocolate, peppery with a slightly bitter finish.

22.4 oz. bottle, consumed on 10-28-10. Labeled as best before 07/07/09. There was nothing problematic about the taste, besides perhaps a bit of probably age-related under-carbonation, but keep that in mind as you read my review. Aroma features chocolate, port, plum, raisin, blueberry muffin, toffee, mocha, and vanilla scents. Interesting, complex, and appealing aroma. Pours a clear, dark brown with a deep, copper-red glow. Small amount of barely-there, beige head. Flavor features dark chocolate and dry coffee, the latter especially in the finish. Also dark fruits taste within a nice, malty sweetness. Medium to full body. A nice bite, but under-carbonated (to repeat, likely due to the age). Easy to drink for a relatively big beer.

[330ml bottle, Sainsbury’s Edinburgh] Totally overflows on opening and becomes a gusher, which can happen with BrewDog beers. Pourwise it’s the expected deep black, with a thick consistency and a peaked tan head. The aroma is bitter dark coffee, which comes through on the taste - heavy coffee with slight smoky flavours, and a hint of liquorice before more bitterness and the alcohol punch follows. Sits at the harsh end of the imperial spectrum, rather than the smooth (i.e. Thornbridge St Petersburg) [28092010]

Bottle@Home. Pours black with a brown head. Aroma is cocolate, coffee. Taste is more coffee, chocolate, toffee, caramel, rather sweet but end with a bitter finish. Full body, soft carbonation. Love it