3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20355 ml bottle gracefully offered by czar. Pours an opaque black with a short-lasting beige head. Smell is dark chocolate. Taste is chocolate, caramel, coffee and ash. Finish is light cocoa bitterness, hints of coffee. Some boozey taste, somewhat warming, comforting feel comes with it. Medium to strong bodied. Very good, if not just a bit too sweet, imperial stout. Made for a fabulous post-dinner drink, though.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
(bottle) pours black in colour with a creamy brown head. aroma of brown sugar, cherries, toasted malts, espresso and sugar icing, slightly faint and simple. flavour is mostly the same, though quite alcoholic, with heavy cocoa, a hint of chestnut honey, a medium sweetness and a light-bitter herbal-hoppy finish. slightly watery body with lively carbonation. disappointing.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Lovely appearance like a black IPA. Malty aroma filled with caramel, coffee and a whiff of grassiness. A lot of chocolate in the aroma. Excellent lacing and good look.
A strong ground barley flavor in the taste with lots of chocolate and hoppy grassiness. It's pretty sweet in taste but has an IPA Flavor.
Really interesting beer which has a lot going on.
---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle at home. Almost black, deep deep dark brown, slight reddish hew noticeable only when held next to light. Dark tan head, which faded fairly sharpish. Boozy, toasty chocolate malt aroma with some rum in there too. Lovely and full in the mouth, booze, choc and big burnt caramel treacle flavour with a good hit of bitterness. Could have been mellower but very tasty nonetheless.
5 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 20/20
I liked this one a lot. I think laying it on its side for a while might mellow out the tad of booze in the background. Nice rich molten chocolaty taste on this one.
4.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Pours thick black with caramel head. Toasty coffee nose. Starts thick chocolate liqueur then turns a bit bitter with the chocolate turning to cocoa. Lingers long with the alcohol and cocoa staying on the tongue long after.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle from DSG, huge thanx!
Pours deep black with thick creamy brown head. Smells massive malty and chocolatey with some alcohol. Starts with burnt roasted malts, paired with lots of coffee and bitter chocolate. Middle part has much burnt malts, paired with coffe, chocolate and a slight alcoholic note. Goes into a very dark malty finish with lots of bitter roasted malts and chocolate. Awesome!!!
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle from Mane Liquor. Pitch black with 1cm of creamy white head that fades 30 seconds after pouring. Minimal lacing. Aroma is mud-cake (fuck you Nick), coffee, soy, fudge and dark cocoa. Taste is roasted chocolate, touch of molasses, vanilla, raisins and lingering soy sweetness. Very dark fudge-esque malts dominating the flavour. Nice oily/syrupy body that complements the taste. Mildly bitter, enough to make my reach back for my glass. Solid imperial stout.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle->snifter. Pours black with tan head. Aroma: chocolate, coffee, roast. Taste: molasses, chocolate, malt, booze. Very good, but nothing exciting.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 13/20
(2/2012) bottle. Black. Chocolate, coffee on both nose and palate. Pretty easy to drink, excellent beer.
-- bb/h(n9)
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Winter 09-10 bottling.
Appearance - Pours a thick near black with tan head
Smell - A little alcohol present, hop aromas still present. Roast, smoke, vanilla, lactic sweetness (milk chocolate?) and something mineral-like.
Taste is similar to smell, begins as a milk chocolate light sweetness and ends bittersweet.
Just a velvety smooth, luxurious malt body. Preferred with age as the hops have softly faded.
I’d say it’s held up very well.
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