BrewDog Riptide

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

Serve in Snifter

Bottle. Creamy off-white good mostly lasting head. Black colour. Moderate hoppy and malty aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Bitter finish. Moderate bitter average finish. Creamy palate.

Cask conditioned at Oxford Beer Fest ’07. Black with slight tan head. Looking like crude oil in a glass, this is a big thick sweet, fruity beer with a touch of cough medicine in the background. Blackberry and a hint of banana, I couldn’t get too far beyond the sweetness. Tricky for a beer fest because it stays in the mouth for some time.

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, 33cl) Clear, mahogany colour with a beige medium-sized foamy head. Moderately sweet and roasty malty aroma with notes of anise, caramel, berry fruits and a tinge of noble hops. Roasty bitter flavour with a present and rounded malty sweetness, full bodied with a soft carbonation. Robust roast-malty, slightly molassy taste with caramel, chocolate and a tinge of anise spice; sweet and roast-bitter finish with warming alcoholic notes and a light but aromatic hoppy tail. Complex and superb brew. 24.XII.09

UPDATED: NOV 6, 2007 A Mes and Sim rate (33cl bottle at Chris O’s Shindig and numerous times since.)
Dark, almost black body with a creamy tan head. Sweet perfumey aroma, dark and complex with fruit, chocolate and plenty of malt. The flavour hits you with alcohol, a bit of coffee, heavily malted and some nice balancing hops. Thick dark chocolate and coffee finish with a pronounced and pleasing bitterness. Lovely stuff.

courtesy of Toni Flükiger - very dark with a little dark beige foam; roasted aroma of black chocolate with a fair presence of hops; full-bodied and sticky; robust bitterness and a longroasted aftertaste of pralines with a touch of mocha - full of character and balanced

Bottle: EXtremely dark ruby-amber coloured, small - but stable - tanned foamy layer; solid dry aromas of roasted malt & molasses on one dide, balanced by sweet dried fruits on the other side; full bodied, mellow instead of merciless, moderate to solid sweet-bitter flavour; increasing bitterness in the robust sweet (fruity) - bitter (roasted malt, molasses) finish, lingering dry malty bitterness in the aftertaste. Good chunky brew...............

Bottle. Batch 001 BB 03/03/09. Poured a dark brown color with an averaged sized off white head. Aromas of roast, chocolate, coffee, and a littel earthy. Tastes of chocolate, coffee, molasses, roast, a lighter earthiness, and some caramel.