Epic Big Bad Baptist

Brewed by Epic Brewing Co. (Utah)
Style: Imperial Stout
Salt Lake City, Utah USA

Serve in Snifter

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Aromas of espresso, cocoa, and potting soil. Black with moderately lasting, tan head foam. Strong, dry, and roasty. Full bodied, sticky, carbonation is average, and finishes with strong, roasted coffee and cocoa flavors lingering.

"Are you kidding me? Are you f-n kidding me? This beer is the most epic beer of all beers. A pitch black color with a tan head. The aroma is chocolate, espresso, caramel, and vanilla. The flavor is perfectly balanced with some german chocolate cake, espresso, coffee, and caramel. The aftertaste is somewhat sweet but the bitterness from the coffee balances everything"

Pours like an oil can. Thick and black and syrupy looking with a small brown head. The aroma is strong espresso. It smells like coffee beans to me. The taste is COFFEE. There’s also a good amount of alcohol going on here. The coffee is extreme but not over the top. I’m not usually a fan of java / coffee stouts but this is pretty well balanced. A good beer that I’m glad I tried but a bit too much coffee for my taste.

Are you kidding me? Are you f-n kidding me? This beer is the most epic beer of all beers. A pitch black color with a tan head. The aroma is chocolate, espresso, caramel, and vanilla. The flavor is perfectly balanced with some german chocolate cake, espresso, coffee, and caramel. The aftertaste is somewhat sweet but the bitterness from the coffee balances everything. Is it sacrelig to say better than Dark Lord or Expedition? This beer probably is!

Bottle pours thick black with think brown head. Aroma huge cocoa with a little roast and coffee. Taste dominated initially by roast and char this fades as it warms to a nice balance of caramel, bourbon, roast and cocoa. Finish mild roast. Palate thick without being syrupy or sticky.

Nice imperial stout, improves as it warms, reminds me some of KBS with more roast.

on draft pours out sold black with dark brown head. deep rich aroma or roasted malts chocolates and coffee. let the head settle down some and the flavor was strong coffee and chocolate followed by boozy goodness. omg what a beer. going to cellar this one but what i wouldnt give for another glass. very well balanced. the coffee and chocolate flow so well together.

Release #10. Poured into a snifter out of a 22oz bomber. Pours inky black with just a small dark tan head that fades to a ring around the side of the glass. Pretty decent lacing considering the abv. Coffee is quite prominent in the aroma with hints of dark chocolate. Lots of roasted malt that seems slightly burnt. There is vanilla and just the slightest hint of whiskey buried way in the background. The coffee carries big time into the flavor mixed nicely with cocoa creating almost a mocha character. Lots and lots of heavily roasted malt that borders on being a bit acrid and charred. There is still just a little bourbon in the background that I wish was a little more prominent. Nice vanilla and caramel touches too. The alcohol is well hidden with just a slight warmth in the back of the throat with a creamy and just slightly sticky mouthfeel. Overall, a very tasty imperial stout but one that is not quite Earth-shattering. I don’t know if I would go out of my way to pick this up but if you do come across it, it is worth drinking.

Release #10. 11.4% abv. Pours pitch black with a small brown head. Aroma of some oak, chocolate, and loads of coffee. Sweet but with the perfect bitterness to balance it out. Lots of roasted coffee lingering after the burst of chocolate. Thick and chewey. Prickly carbonation. I do get some oak from this, but little if any bourbon tones. Maybe the bitterness is just balancing these well? In any case, this is one of the best impy’s I’ve had. It’ll keep ya warm for sure. Very nice.

Aroma - Strong coffee aroma! Aroma of wet oak, or wood grilling planks. Probably due to the whiskey barrel aging. You. Can smell this aroma from a close distance. Slight sweet vanilla and chocolate aroma. Hint of malt and booze. Taste - Taste of roasted coffee and chocolate as well as oak. Taste of sweet malt and booze. Overall- Great! Beer. I haver never had a stout like this.

Aroma of chocolate, coffee, roasted barley and chocolate malts. Appears very very dark brown, black with a quarter inch deep dark brown head, Very sticky. Tastes of coffee,chocolate, dark roasty malts. Very thick syrupy mouth feel. I enjoyed this one a lot. Very nice long sipper for the cold months. the coffee give a little caffeine buzz. Mmm tasty