Jablonowo Imperator

Brewed by Browar Jablonowo
Style: European Strong Lager
Jablonowo, Poland

Can, 50cl. Pours a golden/yellow beer with a white head. The aroma is diacetyl, and nothing else. The flavor is diacetyl and alcohol. The palate leaves a burning feeling in the mouth from the alcohol. Overall this beer has more focus on high alcohol than good flavor. A really bad experience.

Can.50cl. Beer sometimes undergoes a diacetyl rest, in which its temperature is raised slightly for two or three days after fermentation is complete, to allow the yeast to absorb the diacetyl it produced earlier in the fermentation cycle...(They did not do that). The makers of some wines, such as chardonnay, deliberately promote the production of diacetyl because of the feel and flavor it imparts. It is present in many California chardonnays known as "Butter Bombs,"

Small white rim over copper-amber beer. More caramel, with bready-chestnut flour aromas, sweet. Alcohol comes out in the aftertaste, rest is pretty decent at first, bready mainly. Certainly better than malt liquor, but nowhere in the class of German Bock. Fiery alcoholwarming, very slick and syrupy. Coarse, but tolerable. Many thanks to Stef C.! Drank under the name of Jablonowo Super Mocne

Can. Medium head with medium duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are sweet caramel and alcohol. Not too balanced.

No 349
Rated: 26.03.2008
Can, 500 ml, 18P
Appearance: Pours not perfectly clear, shiny body colour, seems a bit artificial, a kind of not beer like, body is medium in terms of carbonation, head is very weak, minute, very quickly decreasing, no lacing.
Aroma: Juicy, initially fresh on the top but sweet, fruity and juicy at the background, white wine grapes, ripe apple accent, slightly&gently hoppy at the top, a hint of can.
Flavour: Front is sweet and juicy, some heavy fruits are noticable, than when you swallow there is an alcohloic aftertaste and bitterness comes through your tongue, you can slightly feel alcohol accent, but all in all flavour is well balanced, finish duration is medium.
Palate: Carbonation on palate is medium, body is medium to full, texture is wattery what makes driniking of such a strong beer more pleasurable. Finish feel is generally clean with some notes of chalk.

Muddy yellow orange with a small white head. Aroma is malt and alcohol. Flavour is all alcohol in this thick and sticky beer.

A 500ml can labeled Imperator Super Mocne, costing about $1 at a Warsaw kiosk. A dense gold color, well carbonated, with a thick white head. Slightly estery aroma, with a medium body and smooth mouthfeel. A slight citrus character and fruity notes. Late alcohol presence. Like a Stong Ale but without the desired presence of malt or hops.

The whole thing - name ("emperor"), logo and abv is ridiculous, but it wasn’t as terrible as I expected. Almost no head, honey colour; alcoholic aroma and flavour, but the latter isn’t much worse then the taste of standard Polish strong lagers who have 3% of alcohol less. Not very enjoyable (unless someone wants to get drunk fast), heavy and quite nasty, but still I expected worse.