Goachers Crown Imperial Stout

Brewed by Goachers
Style: Stout
Maidstone, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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[Cask at the Volunteers Arms, GBBF 2005] A red-brown beer with a nice brown head. The aroma is sweet roasted combined with very light notes of hops. The flavor is very sweet with light notes of roasted malt, chocolate, vegetables, and celery. The alcohol prickles the tongue slightly. I wonder where the Imperial in the name comes from in a beer of 4.5% ABV?

Cask conditioned, GBBF 2005: Artificial burnt aroma. Malty sweet body. Below average. Very weak and thin.

Sweet, thick, chocolate aroma has notes of shoe leather. Opaque brown body with ruby highlights and a generous and lasting large-bubbled brown head. Roasty flavour up front with soy and chocolate character. Medium body is perhaps a bit thin for style with somewhat low carbonation. Cask at GBBF 2005.

Gravity cask at Red Lion, Snargate, Kent. Black in colour. Chocolate malt nose, smokey charcoal. Full in mouth, some acids with bitter burnt malt on end

Very dark with a beige head. Aromas are roast malts, earthy and peaty with licourice. Flavours consist of lots of roast malts with coffee and a dry earthy palate. Has a dry finish with licourice bitterness. Surely not strong enough to be called an Imperial Stout!

Well, its certainly a stout, and not a bad one at all, but its not an Imperial stout by any stretch of the imagination. Opaque, deep chestnut brown colour. Farmyard and coffee aroma. Espresso coffee and chocolate in the flavours. Dry finish with a bitter aftertaste. Rather impressive overall, but not enough complexity to score higher. Cask (gravity), Catford Beer Festival.

[Cask conditioned] Very optimisitc to call a stout with only 4.5% an imperial stout. Lots of malty bitterness. Some fruitiness. Not very full bodied nor imperial, but a nice brew.

TAP GBBF: Light toasted nose, lathery sticky head, opque dark brown color. Slow start in the taste profile, then bursts into a strong bitter roasted maltiness. molasses in the middle , then an espresso-like finish. Clean palate, not very complex but decent all around. Too thin for a stout?

UPDATED: NOV 3, 2005 Aug, 2003. Gravity Cask, Kent Beer Festival. Roasty aroma. Some soy sauce in taste. Dark and increasingly bitter. Very pleasant but lacks breadth and complexity, concentrating on bitter roast tones. [3.5]
Sept, 2003. <a href=http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/25/258 Lion, Snargate. Dry roasted barley flavour dominates. Small hint of fruity sweetness up front which is soon thumped into submission by the burning dryness. A crude dry stout in flavour, but aroma is more of an imperial. [3.1]
Nov, 2005.<a href=http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/21/212 Volunteer, Maidstone In perfect condition. A rich and flavoursome dry stout with creamy chocolate notes and those hints of sour wine and soy sauce that lift this beer into the Imperial Stout arena where by abv alone it shouldn’t belong. Delicious. [4.0]

GBBF, cask. Aroma has roasted malt. Firm licorice apple and roasted malt flavor. Long roasted bitter finish. Loads of flavor for the modest alcohol content.