pjweaver (133), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Jan 4, 2009 Snifter from bottle.
Pours a reddish black walnut. Sweet red fruit aroma, with coffee and espresso. Thick in the mouth, with flavors matching the aroma, smooth, chocolatey, and milky on the tongue. Great stout, very smooth. DSG (1501), Tel Aviv, Israel Jan 4, 2009 Bottle. Black-colored beer with a huge brown head, a bit bubbly. Aroma of roasted barley, coffee beans, some coffee liquor and light fruitiness. Bitter flavor with some sweet, slightly chocolatey, notes, lots of coffee and tobacco and a bit of alcohol. Thick body. A good Imperial Stout. armando629 (952), Budapest, Hungary Jan 4, 2009 What a beer again...Thanks MartinT! I am absolutely enthralled...The beer has a black body with a superb creamy brown head what was on the beer till the end... Unbelivable nose of coffee liquer, chocolate, vanilla and dark fruits, toffee. Fantastic smooth mouthfeel with a characteristic liqueric coffee taste, fine dark chocolate and caramel flavor. Coffee, dry aftertaste. Some nub sugar in my coffee, please! Fantastic, exciting one. Please, more!!!! rwaters (27), Anchorage, Alaska, USA Jan 4, 2009 pours black with a tan/chocolate head. very strong coffee, caramel and chocolate flavors. smells like roasted toffee/coffee. clong83 (243), San Diego, California, USA Jan 3, 2009 Pours a opaque brown/black with a nice dark head. Aroma of chocolate, coffee, and is sweet. Flavor is of a blend of caramel, chocolate, coffee, dried fruits, and is very sweet at first with a very bitter and pleasant clean and crisp finish. Excellent beer. beerbill (1917), Laurel, New York, USA Jan 2, 2009 11.5 oz. bottle. Pours black with a moderate chocolate brown head that faded to a film after the first two sips and left very little lace. The aroma is very unique with coffee being the obvious dominant trait, with notes of raisins, prunes, earth, and sake. Specifically, the sake aroma reminds me of a very earthy, cloudy brown Chinese sake my wife and I had bought in Chinatown years ago that came in a brown earthenware jar. The flavor is again dominated by the coffee, but without the fruitiness present in the aroma. An alcohol flavor emerges midway, and this grows quite a bit as the beer warms. Bitter coffee finish. Medium bodied, I’ll call it light for an impy stout. I enjoy coffee stouts, but there are a good many I’d reach for before having another of these, especially at $6.95 / bottle. Dezzilu (211), Whitmore Lake, Michigan, USA Dec 30, 2008 Poured a solid black with a wispy dark head. The boquet was a incredible, wonderful, strong coffee and toffee aroma that made my mouth water. In the mouth and the throat the flavor was strong and long-lasting, original and heavenly. I can best describe this beer as ’Murphy’s Irish Stout’ on steroids. A real treat to drink. Cheers lebshiff21 (85), Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA Dec 28, 2008 Pours black with tan head. Tons of coffee here. Roasty and a bit bitter as youd expect with all the coffee. Finishes pretty crisp. Doesnt linger very long, which I like.
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