Clown Shoes Chocolate Sombrero

Clown Shoes Beer
Brewed at Ipswich Ale Brewery
Style: Imperial Stout
Ipswich, Massachusetts USA

Serve in Snifter

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Bomber from Imbibe Wine. Nose is chocolate, hints of cinnamon and vanilla. Black with a medium heavy lacing cinnamon tan head. Flavor is lightly sweet chocolate with a slight hint of pepperiness from the chiles.

Bomber from City Beer SF. Pours dark cola with a thin head, Aroma comes through chocolatey with an high degree of artificial overtones (I guess those are the "natural flavors"). Flavor is a God-awful mess of chocolate and...?(I'm guessing vanilla, cinnamon, and chiles, but that's only because that's what it says on the bottle). Mouthfeel is syrupy and under-carbonated. Honestly, I do not see how this beer has gotten such high reviews, I drank 2 oz and dumped the rest. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Draft. Backlog from Oct 2012. Dark brown in the glass with an off-white head that settled to a ring. Aroma of chocolate, vanilla, and roasted malt. The flavor found chocolate, roasted malt, and a light backing of pepper. Medium body, sweet, and a roasted aftertaste.

Bomber to oversized snifter. Looks good; cola with off-white lacing. Smells and tastes solid; chocolate and vanilla with some spice and a pleasant dark malt backbone. Nice and smooth on the palate. Good beer.

Dark brown to black in color.... Aroma of roasted malts, nutty... Flavor of chilies, spices, smoked malts, notes of chocolate and hint of vanilla.. Oak and chilies on the palate... Solid ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

On tap at Yard House Roseville, aroma is typical sweet stout, flavor is good but falls short on the finish. Chile flavor is appropriately faint.

As the description boasts, one hell of a cool label on this bomber. Pours pitch black with a tan head. Initial aroma of vanilla, some ethyl acetate, chocolate, and roast. Not much chili-wise on the nose. Flavor is definitely milk chocolate, lactose, more vanilla and ethyl acetate, and then just at the back of the throat a slight chili burn. Nice, thick mouthfeel. Subtle and pretty damn nice.

Bomber from trade with crajun. Pours near pitch black with a small head that quickly fades. Aromas are cocoa, vanilla, cinnamon, and some other peppery spices. I think I smell lime too. Taste has some good flavor but very far from being rich. Dry cocoa, chili, vanilla, light roast. Finish is smooth with a small amount of chili pepper heat. Medium body, maybe a touch watery. Overall, an interesting mix of flavors but don’t really have a desire to drink this again.

No bottling information.
Appearance: The body is black through and through with a short tan head that hangs around only for a moment. The head settles into a foamy coating though which accents the beer nicely.
Aroma: The aroma is complex with cocoa being prominent with a blend of earthy roasted coffee and cinnamon flavors. The vanilla is mild, but adds a nice accent to the already complex and inviting flavor.
Taste: The intro is slightly bittersweet with cocoa with a noticeable cinnamon, the cinnamon picks up steam through the mid taste along with a splash of vanilla and some earthy flavors. The finish is mild with cocoa lingering.
Palate: The body is creamy and soft, a bit nitro in feeling.
Overall: This is a very solid imperial stout and I appreciate the balance despite the amount of ingredients. This could have been a cluster fuck, but it’s good. I think the flavor does get a bit congested though.

bottle. pours black with tan head. aroma of chocolate and spice, slight heat. taste medium body with decent spice and slight sweet heat finish