3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle: Pitch black, moderate foamy beige head, nice lacing. Some heavy roastiness, coffee, dark chocolate, dark pitted fruit, and licorice on the nose. Tastes of acrid burnt malts, strong salty licorice, and alcohol. There is also some coffee and soy notes as well. This is a bruiser that may be best left to sit for a while before opening. Fairly smooth on the tongue, fairly big bodied. Lingering alcohol and acrid roastiness. As this warms, it seems to mellow a bit. Either that or the 10% ABV is kicking in. Decent Imperial Stout, a little rough, but could use a bit more sweetness to balance it out.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours dark brown with a light brown head. Smells roasty and sweet with some molasses undertones. Tastes peppery and roasty with some ashy hints on the finish.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled 33cl. Odered from www.erzbierschof.ch. Pitch black with a tallish nicely remaining lacing beige head. Very true to the style. Smoky. Good bitterness. Nice hop profile.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draught@CPH BF 2011. Quite much pitch black colour, small brown head. Aroma is toffee, grass, some toasted notes as well as liquorice. Flavour is roasted malts, mild toasted notes, some fruity and alcoholic notes as well.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Flaske 0,33l spandert av og delt med Rune under rateseanse hjemme hos ham 13 Okt 11. Svart. OK svakt farget skum som henger igjen på glasset. Røstet kaffe & lakrisaroma. Kraftig smak. Sjokolade & lakris. Glir over i en god tørr bitter ettersmak. Svak alkoholsødme. Fin balanse. (Ølbutikken København)
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
In short: A rich stout with liquorice, bitter black chocolate and surprising minty flavor. Fun beer
How: Bottle 330ml, consumed when a few months of age
The look: Black body topped by a small tan head leaving good lacings
In long: Rich inviting nose with black liquorice being upfront in the aroma and with black chocolate in the back. Taste is uncompromising, this is a tasty beer. High sweetness sensation on the attack, plenty of black liquorice, salty soy sauce, a few pieces of very bitter pure black chocolate, bitter black coffee, minty hops (very minty), a shot of Crème de Menthe. The minty was so strong that I don’t know if it can be only hop-related. This was a bit of a strange one, a bit aggressive, but also inexplicably drinkable. Pretty good, better than I expected. Another beer I’d happily drink again, and I might be an alcoholic but of all my problems, I think oniomania is the one I’m the most ashamed of, but oh well, I have to buy my beer somewhere.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle at Olympen. Black with a very nice, beige head. Sweet roasted malts aroma. Smoked meat, sweet caramel flavours to balance. A mildly smoked imperial stout.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours thin but dark and almost opaque. The aroma is tinged with smoke and boiled root vegetables along with a vanilla sweetness. Weird as all hell. On the palate it's much more "normal" with a sweetness well balanced by a roasty astringency. Okay.
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3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draft at Blue Monk, Buffalo NY. Black black pour with creamy darker tan head. aromas was more subtle than expected, mild roast. Fuller mouthfeel, decent but somewhat subdued flavor. Drank this after the big & flavorful De Molen Rasputin so that may have something to do with it. Pretty roasty flavor, peppery. Solid stout
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
From the tap poured a dark brown color with a fair amount of head. Strong sweet malty flavor with a quick finish.
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