Hales Pikop Andropovs Rushin Imperial Stout

Very dark colour. Very meaty aroma with chocolate hints. Beef jerky & chocolate body with a toasty note. Moderate intensity and thickness for style. A good starter impy.

Tar black, oily with a thick brown head. This has the beef jerky meaty aroma, with some soy, salt, coffee and burnt wood. Flavour lives upto the aroma, with a meaty flavour, caramel and some wood. Tasty.

22 oz bottle. Pitch black beer, oily texture with a thick dark-brown head. Big sweet malt aroma, beef jerky, succulent, salty licorice aroma. Flavour of salted meat, caramel, a bit of oak, light smoke, herbs and a long roasty finish. A good imperial stout.

22 oz bottle: pours pitch black with a creamy brown head. the aroma is of coffee, chocolate, raisin/plum and molasses. the aroma is the best part. the flavor is too burnt, sour and acidic in my opinion to be an impy. is it possible i got a bad batch? the flavos is slightly smokey with a dry finish. not a bif fan of this beer at all.

This is a bit of a disappointment for an imperial stout. The appearance is really quite nice with a pitch black body under a dense, if smallish, brown head. The aroma is pretty good too, with coffee, black chocolate and a grape or plum fruitiness. The flavor is where this one falls apart. The flavor is thin and salty with a slightly tart finish that is disappointing after the rest of the aspects. Finishes with a smokey, charred malt finish.

on tap at hales. not in the top echelon of imperial stouts but i guess it’s okay. chocolatey and slightly jammy aroma, quite sweet, hint of plum, would like to see a touch of sourness

Bottle Pours about as black as it gets witha lively, short lived foamy red-brown head. In fact, in about a ninute, the head is gone. And I mean GONE. No lacing. Even after a swirll. Aroma is wonderfull. Sweet, chocolately, and there is that Purple Grape jelly again. Some whiskey barrel notes as well. Flavors are a smokey sour fairly dry taste. Not much else. A bit boring and simple actually. Why cant these taste as good as they smell. A big tease. Not bad after all just a bit of a let down. Finish is slightly chalky, carbonation is a bit lively. A smokey, not too bitter aftertaste. I’ll be trading away the others I have probly.

22 oz bomber. This pours about as pitch black as one could ask for. There is a good looking dark tan head present that quickly fades out of existence leaving only a slight lacing about the glass. Overall one of the best looking stouts I have seen, now if only the head retention was better it would be perfect. A burnt chocolate and sugary sweet aroma dominates the smell, with the burnt scents standing out the most. This stout is about a medium body, much thinner than most Imperial stouts and is not so smooth going down. The flavor is an over roasted one that dominates the less apparent alcohol and chocolate. It is also quite sour, not something I would expect from a beer like this. Overall not a bad beer but defiantly nothing I would reach for first.