4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
33cl bottle, Gallows bird. Pitch black, brown head. Licorice, roasted malt, strong coffee aroma. Inviting, tempting. Flavor has roastedness, licorice, coffee, salt, hops. Wonderful finish, roasty, espresso feeling. Full bodied. IS the way I like it.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
330ml bottle @ Gallows Bird, Espoo
Pours pitch black with a tiny brown head. Aroma of dark roasty malts, dark chocolate, coffee and hints of vanilla and espresso. Taste is roasty, malty and slightly sweetish with hints of dark chocolate, licorice and vanilla. Finish is sweetish and roasty with some dark chocolate and licorice notes. Quite dark and heavy, roasty imperial stout
3.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
330ml bottle bought at the excellent bottle shop Kris Wines in London, shared with Finn at a rating session back home. Bubbly tan-coloured head with fine retention and lacing. Deep, black with a brown shade. Aroma of chocolate and earth-like malts. Fine blended taste of herbal hops, dark fruits and grainy chocolate as well as hints of tobacco. Full bodied. A nice sipper with a long tail (Tromsø, 17.01.2013).
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
A black beer with a thick, medium and beige head. Aroma of liquirice, roastiness, unique and interesting menthol, some tar and smoke. Taste of tarliquirice, black coffee, smoke and tar. The aftertaste is dry and roasted with lots of strong coffee. Almost full bodied, but still quite easy to drink. Unique beer with Schlenkerla’s nuancees, interesting mix of smoke, tar and traditional IS.
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 14/20
Flaske 0,33l fra Kris Wines. Delt med Rune under seanse i H9 17 Jan 13. Svart. Høyt mokkafarget skum som blir liggende igjen som små prikker på glasset. Bra sjokoladearoma. Smaken er søt sjokolade som raskt blir etterfulgt av en fin, litt tørr fruktig ettersmak. Fin bitterhet. Alkoholen merkes ikke.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle at The Sussex Arms, Twickenham. A black coloured pour with a medium tan head on top. Rich boozy malty, roasty, chocolate aroma. Tastes rich, malty, chocolate, some coffee, dark fruit. Great complexity. A top draw Imperial Stout from Buxton.
4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle from Coppers, Newcastle. An inky black beer that pours with a dark brown, quickly disappearing head. It has a thick mouthfeel spicy red fruity and orange marmalade flavours, liquorice and slight chocolate hints on the fruity finish. Maybe not a normal imperial stout, but this is still excellent!
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Very dark brown with a medium brown head. Malty with chocolate tones. Malt, chocolate and some bitterness. Full body with a nice, bitter sweet finish.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours a pitch black beer with a chocolate head. The aroma is malt, roasted, licorice, alcohol, coffee and hops with grapefruit. The flavor follows the nose. The palate is sweetness. Overall a good beer.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle @ home. The pour’s thick, oily black with a tight, creamy tan head. Attractive. The nose is strong sweet Hershey’s chocolate syrup, charred malts, espresso bean, booze-infused fudge and bitter dark chocolate. Big, expressive aromas. The taste is similarly outsized. Heavy notes of freshly ground espresso. Charred wood and gritty roasted malt flavors. Big, fat, thick chocolate milkshake. Dry, hoppy bitter finish. Ashy. The body’s thick and viscous. Luxurious mouthfeel. This beer wears the ABV well, though it certainly demands to be drunk at a leisurely pace. Overall, pretty outstanding. I feel like I’ve cheated myself by waiting this long to try this beer. It’s great. If this was made by a hip US brewery it’d have a huge reputation.
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