Iron Hill Russian Imperial Stout

Brewed by Iron Hill Newark
Style: Imperial Stout
Newark, Delaware USA

(Bottle 75 cl) Courtesy of sk8viking. Black and opaque with a small, creamy, light brown head. Aroma of vanilla, dried fruit and roasted malt. Very full and rich body, sweet, smooth and a little flat. Lots of vanilla and dried fruit and roasted malts. Soft finish with a subdued bitterness. Very well balanced. This is excellent stuff. 160607

(Hand bottle 33 cl) Courtesy of Kramer 17801. Black and almost opaque - there’s a vague reddish hue - with a light brown head. Sweetish aroma of burned malt and some licorice. Very full-bodied with lots of roasted malt, a lightly burned edge but otherwise dominated by sweet, English licorice and some whiffs of coffee. Very subdued bitterness. 8/3/8/3/16=3.8 090407

Bottle shared by sliffy at C-Bus 6, thanks! Black pour with a light tan head. Aroma of chcolate, some coffee, and light roasted malts. Flavors were also of chocolate, coffee, some brown sugar and some roasty notes. Decent body with a nice roasty finish.

sampled on tap at the 5th Boulder Strong Ale Fest. pours black with off-white head. very roasty nose. flavor is roasty, chocolate, low in hops, and caramel. a solid impy but nothing special.3.6.

1/3/09, thanks to holdenn for sharing, he said this was 2 years old. pours black with tan head. nose of cocoa powder, ashy. flavor of chocolate, cherries, dar and ashy. med body. smooth finish. 3.8.

750 ml bottle courtesy of Jasonmech77. Thanks, Jason. The aroma is very big on coffee and roasty, burnt grain notes. It’s very coffee-like in fact so much that if there is any chocolate aroma it is buried in the coffee and roast. It poured a very dark brown and settled black with a tiny, but fairly lasting, frothy mocha head. Fore holds the chocolate I don’t get int he aroma and is indeed quite chocolatey and a touch silky, gets roast bitter and coffee acidic throught he middle and goes creamy but very bitter in the finish. Has a bit of a milk stout quality to it. Burnt dark fruit notes appear in the aftertaste. Quite nice.

Bottle shared by sliffy i think. Poured pitch black with a small dark brown head. Aroma was straight chocolate and coffee. Very very strong aroma. Flavor was very sweet but still very tastey overall. I loved this stuff.

Bottled. This is from my mini-trade with kramer17801. 12 oz., no label but handwritten name, so it may be filled from the tap or a growler,.so I’ll keep that in mind. Pours shows just a little lighter brown, In the glass it’s black with small red highlights, thin head. Smell is roasty coffee and patent malts, light alcohol as best I can tell with this cold. Taste has burnt coffee notes typical of the style, a backing of plum, and a milky aftertase. A dry stout on steroids. Alcohol kicks in toward the end, and my toes start warming up to it. A relatively low rating,perhaps, but this has come to me under circumstances for which the brewer is not responsible.

Soft carbonation and fluffy body makes this a real winner. A little carboardyness in the typical RIS coffee (subdued) and milky chocolate flavors. Served perfect temp, right out of a cool closet. With warming the full range of alcohol fumes plus plummy fruit comes to the fore. The aroma is more severe than the flavor - this is positively milky! Very good, and of course even better company (Argo0’s house).

(750ml bottle, room temperature) Smallish brown head atop cola/black body. Aroma is moderately sweet, roast, earthy/grapefruit, some bittersweet, chocolate, soy, bourbon. Taste is moderately sweet, coffee, bittersweet chocolate, roast, cream, some vinous. Mild alcohol burn. Silky/creamy/soft medium-full body.