BrewDog Riptide

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

Serve in Snifter

Taste courtesy Hopscotch. Blackish red pour with little head. Roasty grain aroma with sweet malt and just a hint of whiskey. Roasted grains, chocolate malt and hint of hops in the taste. Big and ballsy very assertive malt and very much like an after dinner drink.

Cask @ The Rake / Bottle from Utobeer. Very dark brown almost black with pale brown head. Aroma is pretty malty, nutty, syrupy. Taste is chocolate, caramel, roast coffee with dryish bitter finish. This gets better as it warms. Very enjoyable.

330 ml Bottle. Dark brown color with ruby some ruby highlight. Medium sized, creamy brown head with good retention. Aroma of dark grapes, black currant with some smooth roasted or slightly smokey edge. The first impression is a very vinous, port-like chacacter. After then it shows up its roasted, dry, coffee/cocoa bean character. The aftertaste seemed really smokey to me. The alcohol is well-hidden, the body is a bit light for the style, the texture is also a bit watery. But i have no reason to complain, it was a very tasty imperial-stout.

Bottle. The aroma is light sweet and malty. The beige creamy small head has a normal duration, the body is black. The taste is malty, bitter, some dark chocolate. The body is medium strong, dry and creamy with a soft carbonation.

pours a jet black with a thin foam on top, very good lacing.
smell is of powered bakers cocoa, vanilla, some malts, a light roastiness.
taste is thick, creamy, milk chocolate, touch of vanilla, touch of caramel, nice mild bitter finish.
overall a really nice taste that goes down wonderfully.

Bottled. Pours pitch black with à small Brown head. Smells tar and licorice. Tastes roasted malt, soy and licorice with à similar finish. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Been awhile since I tasted this. From the notes I made I can only see I liked the dark color and the taste was better than I expected. Palate was good, full body finish.

Det här är en god stout men jag hade nog hoppats på något ännu bättre, det är ju trots allt en öl från Brew dog. Med det sagt är det fortfarande en god öl där choklad och kaffe präglar smaken. Jag kan även känna av en tendens av syra, humle och en len sötma som balansetas mot bitterheten. Efterbeskan stannar kvar länge i munnen och är relativt sträv men det är här sötman kommer till sin absoluta rätt.