4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Winter ’03-’04 edition. 12 oz. bottle courtesy Mr_Kimchee. Opaque black colour with ruby highlights. Dark fruits, coffee, dark and milk chocolate aroma. Chocolate, lightly acidic, coffee, plum, and other dark fruit flavours. Full bodied, rich and smooth. Good stuff.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
12 oz. bottle from a snifter. Pours a dark black color with a small brown head. Pretty pour. Aroma has a ton of roasty malt and dark chocolate. Taste has a big roasty character up front, but finishes with a nice, strong dark chocolate. Great beer. Definitely a sipper though.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. They weren’t kidding. The aroma is overwhelmingly of chocolate, sugar, and alcohol. Opaque black with small, mocha head. Flavor is bitter chocolate and licorice with some roastiness on the end. A lot drier and lighter-bodied than expected. Save for Old Rasputin, this is the most easy-drinking RIS that I have had. A good RIS, and it gets bonus points for giving itself the perfect name, but too much black licorice flavor for my taste
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
Wow, aroma is malty chocolatey some faint hops, color, dark as night, cant see through, nice chocolate hue, taste at first bitter hops, then the sweetness of the roasted malts comes through, nice backend coffee essence, overall, Awesome job, Ive had it no 3 times good stuff
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
It’s winter so exploring the heavy duty end of the stout spectrum. Pours black with no head. Very chocolately aroma, like drinking cocoa. Big strong chocolate flavours dominate along with dark roast malts. Possibly lacks a little body for a beer this strong and full flavoured. Long dry bitter finish. An example of what the US breweries do well.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours opaque with low thick head
Aromas full of chocolate some coffee beans and hops
Quite mild palate with a bitter ending. Taste is rich of chocolate and coffee but in a really nice way. Brooklyns finest!
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Aroma strong of chocolate and fainter vanilla and licorice notes; pours very dark to black with a small, brown head. Balanced taste of sweet and bitter with coffee added to the mix with an impressive, long finish. My first imperial stout, very rich, but maybe too bitter finish for my tastes.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Very little head. Very dark. Nose of chocolate. Taste of chocolate, a little smoke. Not very hoppy, just a hint of bitterness.
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3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours oily and black. A little bit of brown head, which quickly disappears. Malt and dark chocolate smell. Very thick mouthfeel. Chocolate and malt aroma. sweet. Bitter ending.
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