Evil Twin Yin

Evil Twin Brewing
Brewed at BrewDog
Style: Imperial Stout
København / Brooklyn, Denmark

Serve in Snifter

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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.

Lite diskret doft men en stor smak. Mycket torr, en del kaffe och lakrits. Lite lätt eftersmak. Mycket stabil. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

330ml bottle. Pitch black with small to average creamy lasting and lacing tan head. Intense aroma with typical roasty dark malt notes, a touch of smoke and ham, a dry note like very dark chocolate. Taste has some sweetness in the beginning, liquorice, then predominate dry and roasty notes. Endless dry finish. This is why you should drink beer.

330ml bottle (O’Hara’s, Tampere)
Lovely rich roasty aroma, but tons of sweet fruity esters too. Black, and with a dark tan tight head. Lovely deep roast, some bite almost like mustard. Full palate, pleasant carbonation. Finish is wonderful - bitter chocolate and espresso, but amazingly mellow. No sign of the alcohol. A great sipper, the dark malts are used very well. Enjoyed the whole bottle, and was sad when the glass became empty.

From the tap poured a dark brown color with a fair amount of head. Strong sweet malty flavor with a quick finish.

Draft. Pitch black color, creamy tan head. Nose is burnt roasted malts, chocolate and coffee hints. This beer is worth you money. Everything you want in an Imperial stout. Chocolate cake, caramel malt up front of the sip followed by bitter coffee and a hop note. Whatever hops they use is strictly for balance of the sweetness. Coffee shows up again near the finish. Some dark fruit nuances as well. Rich, creamy mouthfeel. Lightly boozy giving you a warming feeling on the way down. This is a beast of a stout. A real treat on draught. Finely crafted.

Grifo. Copa Globo. Saboreada en dic´11. Color marrón oscuro. Corona beige y cremosa que dja copiosos anillos de encaje en las paredes. Aromas de maltas tostadas y torrefactas con un toque de chocolate. Entrada de intenso cacao seguida por un gentil dulzor de maltas tostadas. Frutos secos agradable amargor en el intermedio. Cuerpo pleno y carbonatación moderada. Final con notas de melazas y frutos oscuros junto a un amargor seco. Sabores bien equilibrados. ¡¡ Gran Cerveza !! On-tap. Snifter glass. Enjoyed on dec´11. Dark brown in color. Crown is beige in color, creamy & leaves copious rings & collars on sides. Toasted & roasted malts, with chocolate touch to he nose. Intense cocoa upfront the gentle toasted malt sweetness. Dry nuts & kind bitterness in the middle. Full body, moderate carbonation. Notes of molasses & dark fruits into the finish with dry bitterness. Well balanced flavors. Great Beer !!

Bottled. Poured deep brown with a couple fingers’ worth of well-retained dark tan head. The aroma picked up well-roasted, ashy black patent and chocolate malts topped by a wash of fresh earth and lesser grassy hops.. salty kiss on the back of the nose.. really nice. The flavor opened with a quick hit of fresh bitterness and briny character, with roasty and lightly-smoked black malts not far behind.. finished with a good blend of roasty and bitter, but the malts could’ve been more complex. Medium-plus bodied with good balance on the palate.. almost buttery-smooth across the middle.. overall a solid brew.

Old review from last May, On tap. Pour is a dark black body with small tan head and good lacing. Aromas of roasted malts, chocolate, caramel, fruity hops. Taste is very smokey with good floral and chocolate notes maybe even some blackberry coming through as well. Smooth mouth and easily drinkable for the rauch style. First beer I have sampled from a brewer with an increasingly good repuation. Worth trying.

Aroma is heavy malts and coffee/chocolate. The flavor is malty and vinous, with a slight alcohol burn in the finish.

(bottle) black with tan head. Aroma of roast coffee, dark malt. Flavor is coffee, dark malt, dark fruits. Black and tan with the Yang is excellent.