BrewDog Riptide

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

Serve in Snifter

330ml bottle. Pours an opaque black, with a huge tan head, which lasts extremely well, and leaves excellent lace. There is a strong Turkish coffee aroma, with a hint of molasses lurking in the background. Oily pine hops start it off, before being briefly replaced by a slight briny taste. This is soon overcome by sweet Turkish coffee and a bitter dark chocolate finish. This is a very well balanced stout, especially for an 8% imperial stout, and another good effort from Brewdog.

Roasted malt, caramel, cream and tobacco in aroma. Mostly roasty flavour with notes of chocolate, raisin, light coffee

Bottle from the cold case at a Vancouver private liquor store. Almost black in color under normal room lighting, yields a hint of reddish brown tones under strong back-lighting. A straight pour into a tapered glass brought about 5 cm of head, about the color of chocolate milk. Aroma is sweet with notes of well roasted malts. Flavor is rich and sweet with, the well roasted, slightly burnt malt yielding flavors of chocolate and coffee, both pronounced, and quite hoppy to boot. Mouth feel is rich; a bit oily. The high alcohol is evident. A world class imperial stout.

tostata con sentori di liquirizia morbida amara e corposa con un finale un po troppo agressivo

En deilig øl! Mørk og flott, med deilige smaker av kaffe og en smule sjokolade... Flott ettersmak i munnen.

Bottle at Chris_o Shindig. Very dark brown with tan head. That’s good. I like all of it. Aroma, mouthfeel, finish. Superb. One of the beers of the day for me.

Fruity blackcurrant chocolate malt on the nose with a touch of peat, looks great in the glass. Has a very pleasing smokey chocolate dark fruit flavour with a dryish hop finish which leaves you looking forward to another sip....an immensely well conceived beer that is a pleasure to drink.

Cask @ Gallows Bird, Espoo, Real Ale Festival 2008. Dark-dark brown. Small beige head. Big chocolate and coffee aroma. Very smooth and silky. The taste is of roasted coffee, then some liqurice. The looong finish is bitter with warming alcohol.