Hales Pikop Andropovs Rushin Imperial Stout

Brewed by Hales Ales
Style: Imperial Stout
Seattle, Washington USA

Bomber. Pitch black with a decent tan head. Very roasty/burnt nose, some chocolate. Creamy chocolate and light fruit flavors. Kinda plain Jane, but solid nonetheless.

Bomber. This is an inky beer with no head. Aroma is vinous leaning with hints of figs, plums, raisins, and molasses. It does not seem too roasty. The palate is dense with a sharp flavor, actually almost metallic. The finish has roasted coffee. This is kind of sour with hints at grapes. Moderate flavors of molasses and dark chocolate identify this as a stout. This is not what I want from an imperial stout, but it was decent. This is juicy and vinous for the style.

Bottle shared by ucusty. Thanks David. Pours black with no head or lace. Nose is roasted malts, molasses, cocoa. Flabvor is more of the same. Another blah imperial stout.

Shared by ucusty. Pours an inky black with a chestnut brown head. The nose is smoky, roasty, chocolate and coffee, mild fruityness. The flavor is roasty, coffee, chocolate, astringent, molasses, rich flavor. The palate was bitter and roasty. Not too bad.

Bottle shared by someone from the Carolina Crew. This is what happens when it gets late in the tasting... Near black pour with small tan head. Burnt coffee, espresso, chocolate, and cinnamon. Not bad.

Viscous dark brown pour with a thick brown head. Roasty aroma. Espresso, caramel, molasses and chalk. better then I expected and thankfully this bottle wasnt infected.

I had really low expectations for this. Carmely, malty, nice coffee finish. sweet. very nice. Dark with a dark head.

May have been a bad bottle, because this was pretty aweful. Burnt rubber nose and worse flavor. Attractive dark brown pour with dark tan head.