BrewDog Riptide

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

Serve in Snifter

5 mm mocca-colored head, black body. Nose: Coffee, chocolate. Aroma: Licorice, ash, chocolate, coffee, licorice-root and wine gum. Dry ending.

Bottle. Thick, viscous pour with a tan head. Heavy on the chocolate malt with a good coffee hit. Tasty beer

Keg at Brewdog Camden. Black/dark brown colour with big frothy and creamy golden head. Aroma bit of coffee, roast malt, lots of oats. Taste, slight bitterness, roasty coffee malt, bit dark chocolate. Bitter roasty finish. Very nice.

33cl bottle. Poured a black beer with frothy and tan head. Good formation and perfect lacework. Aroma is toasty and dark chocolate. Flavour has mocha, dark chocolate, toasted malts notes. Slightly hints of vanilla and licorice. The final is dry, toasty, moderate bittery and long. Carbonation is medium. Body is medium to high.

UPDATED: FEB 6, 2012 Bottle from BrewDog online store. It pours very dark brown, with a big beige head. The nose is coffee, dark fruit (particularly blackcurrant), chocolate, nut, liquorice and cake. The taste is dark chocolate, treacle, caramel, filter coffee, dark fruit (blackcurrant and plum), toast, roasted malt, solid bitterness and alcohol warmth, with a dry-roast finish. Medium to full body and moderate carbonation. Tasty and very drinkable.

Capped 750 from the Sacramento Total Wine. Pours dark brown/black with a creamy 3 finger dark tan head. Aroma seems mostly chocolate. Full bodied. Flavor is treacle, dark fruit, chocolate, coffee, maybe hops. Hops? There’s too much going on here to distinguish hops. It’s fairly bitter. This is a reasonably, or maybe unreasonably, complicated ale. One thing for sure - it’s a best buy considering the amount of ingredients.
Earlier Rating: 9/15/2008 Total Score: 3.8
Bottle from Johns Marketplace in Portland, OR. Pours a very dark ruby brown with a good tan head. There is a rich dark fruit aroma along with toasted/burnt malt and coffee. A pleasant aroma. Full bodied with near chewy carbonation. Flavor is a bit of tar, very, very smooth burnt malt, and coffee. With time chocolate is detectable. Then it all coalesces into a well balanced and sturdy stout. Soft and smooth it is. Also very tasty.

Bottle from realale.com. lots of dark chocolate roasts. Coffee, chocolate. Just very tasty.

Tap @ Beer Temple. Black color, off white to beige head. Aroma’s of heavy roast, sweet. Flavor is roasted, light sweet. Medium bodied. Dry, roasted and bitter finish.