Golden City Javapeño Imperial Stout

Brewed by Golden City Brewery
Style: Imperial Stout
Golden, Colorado USA

Serve in Snifter

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Draught. Pours opaque with a small, fizzy, dark brown head, mostly diminishing with spare lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (toasted grain, coffee), light hops (flowers), average yeast (dough, leather) with notes of alcohol, tar, smoke, and peppers. Full bodied, sticky texture, average carbonation, and a spicy finish. Long duration, light sweetness, moderate acidity and bitterness.

(Draught) Pours an opaque black body with a medium brown head. Aroma of roasted malt, anise, chipotles, and coffee. Flavor of roasted malt, chocolate, peppers, and coffee.

Boulder Strong Fest at Avery. Black with dark tan head. Aroma of roasted coffee mixed with nacho cheese and more legitimate spices. Taste is burnt coffee/chocolate into subtle spicy hot pepper flavor. A little novelty but nicely executed, the peppers complement and don’t dominate the brew.

tap at brewery. dark brown pour with thin tan head. pepper and coffee aroma. nice balance of chocolate, coffee bean and pepper. spice not over the top. acidity a bit high. nice beer.

From a 22 oz bottle at the brewery. An aggressive pour produced a jet black beer with a beautiful creamy tan head. Espresso is very evident on the nose (along with some smokey pepper) and carries through on the palate. Not much pepper flavor initially, but the pepper spiciness really comes through at the end. Overall this is a very nicely balanced beer; The flavors of coffee and pepper meld very nicely with one another. This would have paired beautifully with the pork ribs we enjoyed prior to the tasting. Simply an amazing taste experience; one of the best beers I’ve had this year.

On tap at Boulder Strong Ale Fest poured an opaque dark brown with a lingering ring of brown foam. Aromas of coffee, bitter chocolate, roasted malt and light smoke. Palate was medium bodied and smooth with a dry lighytly warming finish. Flavors of coffee, bitter chocolate, roasted malt and chipotles with a smmoth dry lightly warming lingering spicy finish.

draft at mountain sun stout month. pitch black and dense with an oily, glistening dark brown head. oily, inky, rich, resinous, instantly reminding me of the sheen coating of recently roasted coffee bean... light bite of generic peppers, very minimal, but with a rich, full, chewy body, perfectly attenuated malt body. lovely stuff.

Crushed with Jakebra at BSAF. Spicy, coffee nose. Very nice flavor. Surprisingly mellow, but packed with flavor. Coffee, spices, and beer. Nice combo.