Eel River Ravens Eye Imperial Stout

Brewed by Eel River Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Fortuna, California USA

Bottle. A black beer with a beige head. The aroma is of chocolate, so is the taste but a bit fruity and roasted. Medium body with a sweet dry finish.

Blind tasting at sk8vikings porter / stout tasting, beer no 12. Pours dark brown with light brown head lacing head. Slight alcohol aroma with a liqourice note. Thick roasted malty, slight chocolate and mild liqourice note into the finish. Clear alcohol finish, warming.

(Bottle 65 cl) Courtesy of CaptainCougar. Hazy, dark brown with a tint of red and a small, light brown head. Lightly tart aroma with roasted malt showing. Medium body with lightly sweet, roasted malts and a touch of vanilla. There’s a vague underlying tartness before a malt astringent bitterness. 070907

Bottled and draft. A pitch black beer with a thin brown head. The aroma is sweet mlaty with notes of chocolate and alcohol. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of chocolate, alcohol, cocoa beans and strong notes of roasted malt.

Nice light coffee-chocolate aroma. Head goes away too quickly. Coffee in the flavor but tastes thinned out.Doesn’t seem strong. Decent.

Name: Raven’s Eye
Date: 04/11/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

black with ruby edges, wispy tan head, sweet roasted aroma with milk chocolate sweetness, creamy body, sweet dark chocolate flavor balanced with the roasted malts, nice milky sweetness, touch of dark fruit,

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

dark black pour w/ a thick tan head and good lacing w/ some beautiful reverse cascading carbonation. Rich malty aroma, alcohols, light chocolates, & grains make up an aroma that I found a little 1 dimensional. Palate is full & well coaated. Flavor is roast malts coccoa light coffee a dry wood like finish w/ hints of the alcohol. I enjoyed it.

Bottled. Beer is very dark brown, nearly opaque. Head is beige, frothy/bubbly, small and mostly diminishing.<P>The aroma is malty with a heavy note of deeply roasted grain, moderate black coffee and dark chocolate; Hoppy with a moderately heavy resinous herb note; Yeasty with just a light note of basement; Light note of alcohol, trace under-ripe banana.<P>The flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, moderately bitter with a long, moderate/heavily bitter, moderately sweet finish. Grippy.<P>The body is full, the texture is velvety and the carbonation is lively.