Grassroots Viola Sofia (Barrel Aged)

Grassroots Brewing
Formerly brewed at Fanø Bryghus
Style: Imperial Stout
Greensboro Bend, Vermont USA

Serve in Snifter

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Good job frumpyhumpty. Very nice barrel aging here. Vampires are fags. Yep. Queers!

UPDATED: JAN 13, 2012 Bottle, thanks Ryan for sharing. Dark brown with small tan head. Nose is strong coffee, roast, light anise, light cocoa. Flavor is extra roasty, char, light cocoa, coffee. Medium bodied. ******************Glad I am getting to try multiple bottles of these Grassroots beers. Thanks Ryan. This is a remarkably different beer when it is not served out of an icy cold cooler and drank outside in cold temperatures on new years eve. both very enjoyable experiences but letting this beer warm up JUST A BIT makes a HUGE difference in the quality of flavor and aroma. I guess it seems obvious for the average beer geek but damn am i more impressed. Unassuming dark fruit comes through much more, a very nice dark chocolate mousse, coffee, light bourbon that melds perfectly. A very well done ba imperial stout. Nice job Ry.

Bottle thx to FrumptyDumpty cons 2012-01-09 Göteborg Ar: heavy roasted malt, salt licorice, coffey, dark chocolate, wee vanilla and wee smokiness Ap: opal black colored body wee frothy dark brown head wee lacings F: round roasted malt body, warming feeling, heavy salt licorice, cOffey chocolate pralines, medium high bitterness, low carbonation, finish is lingering same as beging with some smokiness to it, great beverage!

Tap @ machesietevenutiafa. black color, brown head. Intense aroma of roasted malt, dark chocolate, coffee, wood, peat, booze. Taste of roasted coffee malt, cacao, a little bit of licorice, tobacco, burnt wood, berries, peat and booziness. Some bitterness too. Silky, full mouth-fell. Not easily drinkable but really good indeed. Honestly i got a lot of peated notes (the only aspect i didn’t really enjoyed) but almost no vanilla and bourbon so I thought it had been aged in some scotch barrel. you can read that they actually used the jack daniels ones. maybe the Charcoal Mellow of the Jack daniels gives that taste, or simply the barrel aging was just too intense. Now i’m curios to have it again and/or try the regular version.

On tap@Macché during "Birre sotto l’albero 2011". Deep black color with a frothy tan head. Aroma of berries, cocoa. Full bodied beer with flat carbonation. It’s a perfect mix of sweetness and bitterness. Starts sweet and ends a bit dry and bitter. If you find it, you must drink it!

Bottle. Pours a dark brown/black color with a light tan mocha head. NIce aroma; dark chocolate, roast, barrel, and dark fruit. Medium mouthfeel, a little light to stand up to the flavors. Dark fruit sweetness up front with a building roasty note that then adds some bitterness. Lingering bitterness. Pretty decent.

Bottle, thanks Plovmand. Pours dark brown with a medium offwhite head. Aroma is very soft with notes of cocoa, oak, alcohol, milk chocolate. Flavor is bitter coffee, chocolate, oak, alcohol. Soft carbonation. This is quite delicious.

0.33l bottle shared with ClubGonzo and InBreak. Pours a near black body with a small bubbly chocolate head. The aroma is really nice with bourbon, dark chocolate hints of wood and perhaps even some vanilla, ripe melon and chocolate milk. Soft carbonation, quite full-bodied and the mouthfeel is both sticky, roasty and kinda dryish. Flavors are nice and roasty with a dominating really dry cocoa flavor. Also strong notes of dark chocolate and hints of dark fruits. Ends leaving the mouth really dry. Good stuff absolutely!

Bottle purchased somewhere in Copenhagen, thanks to my man Mogens and shared with Palme and Inbreak. Black body, big beige head. Beautiful. Nose is bourbon, dark chocolate, licorice, coconut, vanilla, wood and booze integrated in a highly elegant fashion. In the mouth, I get dark chocolate and cocoa (the cocoa nib twist is much more evident here than in the aroma), wood and alcohol, with hints of espresso, licorice and bourbon. Smooth but kinda parching mouthfeel, which it suffers a little bit from. Otherwise, a fantastically complex, well integrated and rather original take on the BA imperial.

licorice, caramel, roasty, brown, black, minimal head, full body, soft carbonation, long finish, full body,