Frankenmuth New Year Stout 2011

Brewed by Frankenmuth Brewery
Style: Imperial Stout
Frankenmuth, Michigan USA

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle shared with other. Pours a clear dark brown with a brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of earthy dark grains with a bit of dark fruit and not much else. Flavor has dark red fruit and earthy grains that is quite thin.

(bottle - 1 L fliptop) Jet black pour with a thin tan head. Slightly damp and earthy aroma with a bit of roasted malts but some odd ester notes. We all thought that it may have turned. Flavor seemed to confirm that. Smooth roasted malt flavor with the lightest twang through the middle of the flavor. Tasted alright but definitely had that feeling of about to get really spoiled.

Big thanks to Nick for popping this rarity. The cool looking 1 liter swing top pours out mahogany with tall mocha colored head. The aroma is full up earthiness mixing with cheesy pasta, some red wine tartness and chocolate malt balls. The taste has chocolate malts, full up earthiness rimed with spicy hops mixing with a bit of charred to the point of being brittle malts, wet tobacco leaves like earthiness. It feels like a 4% ABV beer making it seem the 10% bottle claimed ABV suspect. Certainly an interesting beer though.