2.5 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20 Fred82 (1824) - Montreal, - APR 5, 2010
500ml bottle from Peluso
Appearance : Black with a big off white fluffy head.
Aroma : Some grain and adjunct. Hints of chocolate. Feels rubbery.
Taste : Some chocolate and roasted malt. Alcohol on the finish. Some adjunct. Finish a bit bitter. Feels rubbery
Overall : Could have been great but it feels like a disguised macro beer. Fizzy carbonation. Nothing is really good about this beer. Maybe I have an off bottle seeing as some others gave this 4... The rubbery adjunct taste and aroma is just too much
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20 pfriesen (57) - Richmond Hill, Ontario, CANADA - MAY 6, 2012
Opaque black pour, with tan lacing. Molasses and cocoa on the nose, flavours of dried fruits, cane sugar, and dark chocolate. Well carbonated keeping mouthfeel from being cloying. Bottled on 15/12/2010
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20 kevinsenn (335) - Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA - MAR 26, 2012
Bottle shared with toffsbury. Pours opaque black with a big tan head. A little bit of roasted malt in the aroma, but much more yeast than I would ever expect to smell in an Imperial Stout. Taste is sweet, with a little chocolate, metallic, roasty, and a little creamy too. Surprisingly thin body for a 10% ABV Imperial Stout. Fine overall, but bad by Imperial Stout standards.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20 toffsbury (65) - Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - MAR 24, 2012
Roasty aroma, but a lot of yeast too. Tiny bit of chocolate in there too. Not so much coffee as expected... Aroma is not that strong. Beautiful black with a surprisingly white head. Not much to say about the taste till it warms up, besides the bitterness of the roasted malt. Will wait till it’s warmer.
Now that it’s warmed up: a bit metallic, not much in the way of coffee or cocoa... Just roasted barley and not much else. It’s OK, but it didn’t deserve the 2010 World Beer Awards’ "The Americas’ Best Strong Stout". I paid too much for this.
3.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20 Jool (64) - - FEB 12, 2012
Bouteille 500mL. Noire avec bonne mouse ephemere. Nez leger: cacao et un peu d’anis... une pointe metallique. En bouche: cremeuse avec des notes de torrefaction et d’anis. Manque un peu de corps.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20 brew3crew (166) - Cincinnati, Ohio, USA - FEB 10, 2012
Great head and body. Very thick. Dark candy sugar on the nose. Taste is even more sugar on the taste.
3.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20 VT (285) - Quebec City, Quebec, CANADA - DEC 18, 2011
500 ml bottle. Pours a dark black with orange reflects. Nice, beige head with good retention. Tastes of sweet coffee, burnt toast, maybe hazelnut. Has some dominant sweet taste which I’m having a hard time identifying (black cherry? blackberry? purple grape?). Nice coffeeish-dark chocolate bitterness in the finish. Body is very watery, carbonation is heavy. A very easy drinking imperial stout, although somewhat disappointing for a fan of the genre.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20 VincentL (159) - montréal, Quebec, CANADA - NOV 19, 2011
Super robe de noir d’encre avec une belle mousse brune! Malheureusement, la mousse est très éphémère. Odeur de réglisse noire. Assez plaisant.
Elle est d’une acidité prononcé en entrée de jeu, ensuite il y a un goût de torréfaction très prononcé (pas ‘Impériale’ pour rien, cette bière!). Très distinctif et audacieux. J’adore. Le chocolat arrive en arrière goût avec force! La plupart des stout ont comme faiblesse l’arrière goût acre mais c’est largement évité avec la criminelle.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20 asheft (2072) - Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA - NOV 11, 2011
[bottle]
Slightly musty aroma of sweet molasses, green apples, and a little cardboard. Opaque garnet-black under a light brown, thin cover. Slightly salty flavour that is velvety with roasted malt accentuated by notes of plum. Sweet, but balanced by black chocolate bitterness. Warming, full body, high carbonation.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20 GarnotingPete (357) - Montréal, Quebec, CANADA - SEP 28, 2011
Bière couleur d’ébène coiffée d’un fin col dense couleur taupe. Des arômes torréfiés de grains grillées, de café avec une finale anisée. Légèrement amère, sans trop de sucre résiduel. Elle est bien ronde, solide et costaude et se termine doucement sur des notes aromatiques très agréables.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20 AlainG (247) - Montréal, Quebec, CANADA - SEP 13, 2011
Bière noire avec un beau col généreux. Odeurs de poivre, de coriandre ainsi qu’un soupçon d’anis. Goût assez particulier, plutôt atypique, comme si chaque signe particulier du type était juste d’une autre catégorie. On y retrouve l’amertume du chocolat noir et du houblon, ainsi qu’une acidité propre à certain café espresso. Agréablement surpris. L’habit ne fait pas le moine.
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