Drakes Drakonic Imperial Stout

Brewed by Drakes Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
San Leandro, California USA

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle 22fl.oz. @ The Danish Summer Gathering, TFODRBSG11.

Clear dark brown colour with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, choclate, coffee, chocolate flowers. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, chocolate, dark roasted. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110820]
Earlier Rating: 9/3/2008 Total Score: 4
Bottle 500ml, sving top @ home.
[ Trade with kmweaver ]. Clear dark black color with a average, creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, burnt, chocolate, vanilla notes. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is creamy, carbonation is soft. (210608)

Bottled. A pitch black beer with a dark brown head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt and soy sauce. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt,roasted malt, wood, and soy sauce, leading to a roasted finish.
Earlier Rating: 10/21/2004 Total Score: 3.9
A pitch black beer with a disappearing chocolate brown head. The aroma is roasted with notes of chocolate and coffee, and so is the flavor, leading up to a dry end. Mysteriously, the body is thin.

Bottle 65 cl. Pours an opaque black with a light brown head. Sweet roasted aroma, both licorice and in particular chocolate. Solid body, sweet hard roast, a little gluey, vanilla and chocolate, some warming alcohol and a little malt bitterness. But a straight and pleasant Imperial Stout. 230711
Earlier Rating: 6/28/2007 Total Score: 4
(Bottle 50 cl) Courtesy of aspidites/IrishBoy. Pours black and opaque with a light brown head. Aroma of dried fruit and alcohol. Quite full-bodied with loads of hard roasted malts, vanilla and....vitamins! Quite some bitterness from the malts. But very pleasant. 270607 and 070907

22 fl oz bottle. Pours pitch black with no lasting head. Aroma is dark roasted malt, liqourice and dark chocolate. Almost burned. Bold, dark, bitter, hardroasted, liqourice and deep dark chocolate. Rather dry, bitter and hard roasted into a dry and dense malt finish. A bit too much for my liking.
Earlier Rating: 9/9/2007 Total Score: 3.7
Blind tasting at sk8vikings porter / stout tasting, beer no 1. Pours deep brown with light brown head, bobbly. Dark chocolate and underlying liqourice aroma. Full bodied. Perfectly balanced chocolate and liqourice flavour. Soft yet warming finish. Very nice, somewhat two component brew (chocolate and liqourice).

Bottled, thanks fiulijn! Pitch black. Aroma of licorice and pears. Full bodied with underlying sweetness and solid mouthfeel. Heavy roasty flavours of licorice and tar supported by slight perfumy pears and warming brandy. Mellows out to coffee and tobacco is a salty finish.
Earlier Rating: 12/25/2004 Total Score: 3.4
Bottled. Very black, brief jead. Saölty licorice aroma. Sweet and very roasty. Very rich with some molasses and coffee, salty bitter finish. The mouthfeel is a bit mellow.

Bottle at Ølbutikken. Black coloured with a small beige head. Roasted aroma of caramel, dark chocolate and liquorice. Sweet and roasted flavour of dark chocolate and liquorice. Roasted finish.
Earlier Rating: 7/2/2007 Total Score: 3.4
Bottle. Black coloured with a beige head. Aroma of dried fruits and chocolate. Roasted flavour of fruits, dried fruits and chocolate.

Bottle, 8.75%. Fruity and syrupy aroma. Black colour, seems hazy. No head. The flavour is also fruity, there is some cream and coffee. Quite syrupy mouthfeel, thick and almost oily. Nice.

Bottle from Havnens Vin & Tobakhus, Vejle, Denmark
Black color, with brownish head. Very nice aroma of roasted malts, with light vanilla, coffee, alcohol. Good body strength, with roasted malt and chocolate flavor, some cardboard, liquor; the alcohol creates a nice warming feeling.
Excellent Imperial Stout.
Earlier Rating: 1/13/2009 Total Score: 3.6
<i>Draught at the Freakin’ Frog, Las Vegas</i>
Black color. Light aroma of roasted malt. Good body, smooth mouthfeel, with a non-aggressive roasted malt and chocolate flavor, some sweetness, milky feeling. Very good, but not vibrant.

UPDATED: DEC 12, 2007 Date: 06/18/2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Noog I

black, thin tan head, aromaless, winey sweet alcoholic malt flavor, boring
-------- /> Date: 03/07/2007
Mode: bottle
Source: roadtrip
Score: 1.8 to 3.5

black, wispy tan head, drippy lace, rich dark chocolate aroma with a touch of roasted and light sweet licorice, creamy body, rich roasted flavor well blended with dry dark chocolate, lasting bitter finish, touch of alcohol, very light tartness, is this a different vintage than the last one?
-------- /> Date: 08/18/2007
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting

sweet fruity roasted aroma, rich roasted flavor with lots of dry chocolate, touch of ripe dark fruits,
-------- /> Date: 11/29/2007
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting

rich and fruity dark chocolate flavor, touch of alcohol adds increasing heat,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 14/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

Black tiny beige head. .sweet aroma with roasted maslt, coffee and smoky notes. Sweet flavour with plenty of roasted malt, chocolate and liquerice notes. Rather full and vinious.