Eel River Ravens Eye Imperial Stout

(bottle - 22 oz) Clear black pour with a thick tan head. Aroma is a lot of chocolate and roasted malts. Some coffee and chocolate milk come through at the end. Flavor begins with a strong hint of black licorice mixing with some roasted malts. The middle is a good amount of espresso and chocolate malts with a lightly bitter and burnt malt finish. A little thin-bodied for an imperial stout.

Bottle from South Bay Drugs: Pours a reasonable dark brown color with thin layer of foam. I detect a simple amount of roast malt and light scent of black licorice but nothing more substantial. Flavor is heavy and holds its weight in alcohol and dark black malt finishing with bitter bits of chocolate. It does taste organic but at the same time a bit empty and incomplete to be taken seriously as an imperial stout.

Fairly typical imp stout. Mainly sweet flavor with some chocolate and coffee notes with a backbone of roasted malt. Aroma is pretty similar to the flavor profile.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown body with a tan head. Roasty bitterness, full bodied with a chewy dark fruits and lingering coffee. Brown sugar and vanilla. Not bad at all.

Bottle. Pours ruby brown with a tan head. The aroma is lightly roasty with some fruity and caramel sweetness. The flavor starts on a sweet note of caramel, fruit and molasses, and finished with a light roasted coffee note. Pretty weak if you judge it strictly as an imperial stout, but if you ignore that, it’s really a pretty good beer.

Bottle from bevmo. Dark brown with a sweet malty aroma. Watery palate. Earthy caramel taste. Not great.

Bottle acquired via dchmela...THANKS DAVE!!! Quite surprised by just how good this beer was. Dark smoky bitter chocolate and coffee in the nose. Dark mahogany pour with ruby red edges and a solid khaki head that never fully leaves. Full flavored molasses, roasted malt, and espresso. Wish I could get more of this!!!

Pours dark brown with copper hues and weak brief off white head. The aroma is full with sweet chocolate, molasses, dark roasted malts and licorice. The taste is much the same with a mild dose of chocolate malts mixing with molasses, licorice and roasty toasty malts. Nice sweet and rich brew yet on the thin side.