Lagunitas Black Rain Imperial Stout

Brewed by Lagunitas Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Petaluma, California USA

I’m over here in my unit, isolated and alone, eating my terrible tasting food, and I have to look over at that. That looks like the most fun I’ve ever seen in my entire life, and it’s B.S. - excuse my language. I’m just saying that I wash and dry; I’m like a single mother. Look, we all know home-ec is a joke - no offense - it’s just that everyone takes this class to get an A, and it’s bullshit - and I’m sorry. I’m not putting down your profession, but it’s just the way I feel. I don’t want to sit here, all by myself, cooking this shitty food - no offense - and I just think that I don’t need to cook tiramisu. Am I going to be a chef? No. There’s three weeks left of school, give me a fuckin’ break! ..I’m sorry for cursing.

22 oz. bottle purchased at Sam’s. Pours a dark brown color with a medium sized fizzy tan head. The aroma is roasted malt, dark fruits, signs of oxidation, and burnt meat (maybe this is char, but it was strange). The flavor shows more signs of oxidation with dark fruity cherry, toffee, sweet, vanilla, woody, and some roast. Mouthfeel is thin for an imperial stout. Medium bodied at best. The combination of flavors is too sweet with not enough to chew on. Rating #25 for this beer.

good beer. Not great beer, but good beer. poured a decent foamy frothy light tan head and a little lace. Color is an opaque very dark brown, maybe even black. Aroma is Choklity, roasty, malty. Flav is similar. body is good and so is carbonation. Finish is bittersweet and satisfying.

Deep brown/black pour. There is a lot of dark cocoa and a bit of herbal character. Dark sweet chewy malts with sweet chocolate and more fudginess than would be apparent from the nose. Sweet and cocoaish with a nice sweetness. Warming brings up a touch of booziness, but it’s nice.

Bought way back at Sam’s when it was Sam’s in Chicago. Pours a nice pour. Good head. Very caramel, almost bourbon taste. Vanilla. Roasty. Very sticky. I liked it. On second thought...maybe what I thought was bourbon-vanilla is really soy sauce. Beer does not grow with me with each sip but rather turns away from me.

10/18/2009: Lagunitas Black Rain Imperial Stout... Aroma: Caramelized malt; sweet licorice; hard candy citrus. Appearance: Dark honey amber color; opaque complexion; thin beige head. Flavor: Sweet and slightly chewy heavily caramelized malts; some citrus; dry oakiness. Palate: Medium body; smooth. Overall: A bit too sweet; lack depth.

22 fl. oz. bottle shared by alexsdad06. Thanks Brad! Rating #21 for this beer.

Bottle shared by Me. Pours a black bruin body with a thin tan head. Malty chocolate and char coffee character. Rather thin and light in flavor for an imperial stout. Vanilla and a mild roast and wooden note. Decent.

Bomber - not sure who shared this? Pours a mostly deep woody brownish near dark black- good toffee head. Aroma is on the sweet side for a big stout- lots of molasses, burnt pecan pie, oily, chocolate malts, light on the roasty side- and some light herbal hops. Flavor is also sugary sweet, toasty, roast malts, a bit burnt, caramel laden, with more molasses, yet still not a huge thick syrupy body, just medium mouthfeel and a somewhat clean bitter finish. Better than some of their other stouts, but still not great.