4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle 75cl. @ cgarvieuk - Cigar City tasting.
Clear dark browm black color with a large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, light brown head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, wood, moderate to heavy black peppery. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and heavy bitter with a long long long duration, peppery. Body is medium to full, texture is oily - creamy, carbonation is soft. [20100206]
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
Hand-bottled. A pitch black beer with a thin dark brown head. The aroma has strong notes of cedar wood as well as medium notes of roasted malt, smoke, and soy sauce. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of cedar, roasted malt, smoke, as well as medium notes of soy sauce, roasted malt, and alcohol, leading to a very dry, roasted, cedar wood, and alcoholic finish. Thanks a lot MadsBerg for sharing.
4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Hand bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of madsberg. Pours a pitch black with a creamy brown head. Very spicy aroma - must be the cedar - with lots of burned malt and vanilla. Solid body, hard roasted malts, vanilla and pumpkin accents. Malt astringent finish. Amazing one. 161209
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Handbottled, courtesy of MadsBerg. Pours pitch black with a small chocolate brown and dense creamy head. Aroma is fruity, sweet, vanilla and light wooden. Sweet initial flavoured, roasted malty, vague smoked, smooth vanilla and lingering dark chocolate malty flavoured into the finish. Smooth into the far finish with wood, vanilla, chocolate and dark roasted malt.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottled@The Chriso rock the roof down pre-GBBF tasting. Quite much pitch black colour with small beigeish brown head. Aroma is coffee, chocolate, some mild wooden notes as well as alcohol, syrup and quite much liquorice. Flavour is quite much the same along with some nice roasted notes and mild tarry notes. A very pleasant Imperial Stout.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
RBESG 2010, Grand Tasting, bottle
Black oil color; the darkest brown head ever seen. Aroma of roasted malt, very peppery, leathery too. Strong roasted malt and liquorice flavor, strong body, the mouthfeel is a bit oily; peppery, with black coffee too. The final is strong but less bold than expected; too much roasted malt and coffee. Very good, original, not impressive.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pitch black with a large dark beige head. Spicy aroma with burned malt and coffee. Flavour had burned malt, coffee and liquerice. Finished dry and burned. Not bad.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle @ RBESG, Rome. Pours pitch black with a small creamy lasting dark brown head. Nose is very complex. Fruit, wood, chocolate, liquorice and chocolate. Heavy roasted flavor. Vague chocolate and loads of bitter roasted coffee. Quite ashy and peppery. Very dry and lasting end. Smooth and warm. A big beer . .
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: MAR 24, 2010 (A couple 750ml bottles, both 2009 vintage, one courtesy of ericandersnavy) Pours an opaque black body with a thick brown head. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malt, cedar, caramel, and light coffee. Flavor of cedar, roasted malt, rich chocolate, vanilla, some DEET, and coffee with a dry finish.
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Bottle at ChrisO "I’m Trying to see the Stool" pre GBBF2010 tasting. OK, this wasn’t intentional but I seem to have given this beer the lowest score. Black with a thin tan head. Too much cedar for me. It even flirts into Palma violets on the finish. I mean there just isn’t enough of the base beer coming through, so it’s completely out of balance. I guess I just don’t like cigar boxes. Sorry Ken. But thanks for bringing it.
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