Harwich Town Imperial Redoubt Stout

Brewed by Harwich Town
Style: Imperial Stout
Harwich, England

Serve in Snifter

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Dark brown with a tiny beige head. Sweet aroma with burned malt and liquerice. Flavour had burned malt, english liquerice and coffee notes. Finished rather dry.

Bottle thanks to Leighton at his pre-xmas extravaganza. It pours very dark brown, with a thin tan film. The nose is sweet fruit, sour tang, roasted malt and wood. The taste is caramel, big sour tang, dark chocolate, dark dried fruit (currants, raisin etc), roasted malt and wood, with a dry finish. Medium body and low carbonation. Not great.

Bottle at home in London. Aged about a year. Pours dark brown with a thick, foamy beige head. Rich dark malt aroma with some roast and dark chocolate. Medium sweet flavor, light roasted malts, slight tang, some ash. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Fairly thin to finish, mild sweetness, light burnt earth bitterness, tangy dark malts, some ashy wood. Nothing special here.

Courtesy of fonefan
Black color; very large head (too much carbonation?). Aroma of roasted malt, caramel, light liquorice, light bitter herbs, and a vein of sourness. Good body strength, good dark caramel and coffee flavor; but the acidity from the dark malts is too high; the roastiness has a major participation in trhe final.

Bottle from Memorable Cheeses, Ipswich. Quite enjoyable, though had hoped it would be a little more impressive as an 8% Imperial Stout. Poured out flat and just seemed to lack something overall.

Bottle 330ml.
Clear dark brown black color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, burnt - coffee, smoke notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, chocolate, dark bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100409]

Bottle at Papsø. Blck coloured with a very small beige head. Sweet and roasted aroma of caramel, liquorice and dark chocolate. Roasted flavour of berries, smoke and dark chocolate with notes of hops. Roasted finish.

33 cL bottle. Pours dark brown to black with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted and liqourice. Mild acidic flavoured, dark roasted malty. Bitter, mild smoked and lingering dark malty finish.

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of madmitch76. Pours black with a vague orange hue and no head. Aroma of hard roasted malt and a little tar and manure. Solid body, very astringent burned malts, metal and blood - tar, tobacco and iodine, really skewed with an underlying tartness. Malt bitter finish. 090410

Cask (gravity dispense) at Chelmsford Winter Beer Festival, 4 February 2010. Although I had this high on my hit list for the festival, I had overlooked it as it was tucked away in the food serving area, separate from the main stillage. So I decided to grab a quick half in a hurry on my way out. That probably wasn’t the best decision. Although it was a handsome dark colour with lots of chocolate, it was also very sweet and a bit sticky. This made downing it quickly a bit of a struggle, and a less than enjoyable one. Would be better for sipping. Flagged for re-rate.