Dark Horse Plead the 5th Imperial Stout

Brewed by Dark Horse Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Marshall, Michigan USA

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle @ home.
[ Courtesy of Secret Santa ]. Clear dark black color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light brown head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, chocolate, roasted, browen sugar, light alcoholic, burnt notes. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily - creamy, carbonation is soft. (160808)

A pitch black beer with a thin brown head. The aroma is fantastic with notes of alcohol, roasted malt, and hops, in a very fine mixture. The flavor is very roasted, which gives it a dryness, but also rather sweet, leading to a good bitter end. Nice.

12 fl oz bottle, courtesy of Papsoe. Pours pitch black with a chocolate head. Roasted and hoppy aroma. Bitter chocolate and roasted flavoured. Subdued sweetness. Dense alcohol presence. Yet smooth and roasted chocolate flavoured. Dark malt. Lasting roasted malt and chocolate into the far finish.

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Completely opaque black with a light brown head. Malty, sweetish nose. Very full-bodied with plenty of hard roasted malt without being really burned. Vinous and alcoholic. Extremely delicate. 300406

Bottled. Quite much pitch black colour with small brown head. Aroma is roasted malts, liquorice, mild smoke as well as some quite strong alcoholic notes. Flavour is roasted malts, liquorice, some rather strong bitterness as well as mild wooden notes. Quite strange balance in the flavour.

UPDATED: OCT 20, 2008 Bottle. Black coloured with a brown head. Roasted aroma with notes of coffee, liquorice and vanilla. Roasted flavour with notes of coffee, dried fruits and liquorice. Roasted finish.

Bottlesd at Bishop’s Arms Vasagatan, Stockholm. Opaque pitch black, minimal beige head. Earthy raw licorice aroma. Sweet and very fullm bodied with well rounded mildly viscous mouthfeel. Earth and crude oil, raw licorice and milk chocolate. Mellow and relatively balanced for such a big beer. Irish cream finish with chocolate and alcohol heat. Quite nice for being an oversized Imperial stout.

Bottle. Pours a black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty chocolate and coffee aroma. Roasted malty chocolate and coffee flavor with hints of licorice. Has a roasted malty chocolate and coffee finish.

Bottle @ Theis and Mette. Thanks. Pours black with a creamy bubbly brown head. Roasted coffee and chocolate. Dry and bitter roasted flavor. Smooth and full bodied. Nice

Pours oily and black, with very little head. Persistent aroma, liquorice with some phenols. Oily mouthfeel, thick, sweet, with a good combination of malt, liquorice, roasted malts, nuts; more sweet than roasted. Excellent.