Lawsons Finest Fayston Maple Imperial Stout

Brewed by Lawson’s Finest Liquids
Style: Imperial Stout
Warren, Vermont USA

Serve in Snifter

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Huge thanks to craftycarl21. Gorgeous death black pour with a super tight foamy brown head. Perhaps the darkest head I’ve ever seen- rivals ten-fidy. Aroma is woody and boozy with huge notes of maple syrup roasted barley, cocoa nib, chocolate cake, coffee, vanilla, hazelnut, and cream. Flavor is powerful and explosive- ashen burnt sugars combine with molasses, maple syrup, gratuitous roasted barley, bakers chocolate, and dark roast espresso. Palate is thick, rich, fulfilling, creamy, and thick. Finish is chalky and dry in its roasty bitterness. Big ups to Sean for this new offering- this is world class dude...

Stoked for this one. Got 3 of the 92 bottles in the batch. Completely black pour with a dark brown head that darkens as it dissipates. Aroma is excellent; tons of wood, roasted malt, bitter dark chocolate, maple, vanilla, caramel, espresso, and hazelnut. This is a complex imp. stout aroma, top notch so far. Flavor is also superb; amazing notes of charred wood and fireplace ash, aggressively bitter chocolate, and awesome but balanced alcohol presence. The maple is present, but subdued and not overdone, which I really appreciate; so many inferior small-batch brewers would make this into a mediocre and cloying stout. Palate is thick and complex. Huge respect to Lawson’s Finest, an excellent imperial stout.

Bottle # 20/72, big, big thanks to Jason, big want of mine. Thick oily black pour with tan head, lacing well with nice alcohol legs. Aroma has notes of big maple, sweet caramel notes, chocolate/coffee notes with more maple. Wow, the maple jumps out like crazy. Big maple and dark fruit, some notes of toffee, vanilla, chocolate, with big chocolate and maple in the finish. Wow, I love these types of beers, and this beer hit the maple to a tee. Awesome.

750mL bottle, #20/72 shared by Jason. Pours to a pitch black body with a dark brown dense creamy head. The aroma is maple syrup, leafy hops, and sweet and dry chocolate. The flavor is sweet cocoa powder with a maple syrup and candi sugar. Roasted charred malts. The palate is full bodied and very coating.

Black pour with a tight-as-ass tan head. Maple nuttiness in the aroma, some brash booziness but also some creamy vanilla wood. bitter chocolate balanced by sweet maple wood. mouthful is thick and viscous. Char and ash abound in this brew, nicely put together with a subdued maple sweetness. A little rough a bitter around the edges but this is welcomed. At first the sip is a little sweet and chocolate with some booze but then plunges to a place of bitter char. Impressive depth of flavor. This is going places.

Black pour, brown head. Aroma is roasty, chocolate, some maple notes, oak. Flavor is rich and roasty, some maple notes, cocoa, coffee. Nice!

750, very roasty and dark with a dark tan head. Sweetish stout, maple flavors, hoppy flavors and bitter finish.

Pours a thick dark black with a dark brown head. Aroma of bittersweet chocolate, molasses and roast. Taste is bittersweet, chocolate and roast with slight sweetness. Coffee and hops in the finish. Very chewy. Complex impy stout with a little sweetness from the maple. I love this one. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

750mL bottle, #20/72. Poured very near black with just about as much dark tan sitting on top. The aroma picked up maple, maple, and more maple, with vanilla and sweeter chocolates accenting.. a little peppery alcohol and greener hoppage on the back of the nose.. more green and a touch buttery right on the back.. all in all very enjoyable. The flavor was also centered around the maple, with chocolate and molasses down there too.. peppery alcohol and some green, slightly buttery notes around.. the sweetness still stood out, and I really dug it. Heavier-bodied with low-moderate carbonation on the palate.. sticky and surprisingly hopped, but I enjoyed it.. excellent beer!

Dip-de-dip-dip-WOW! Sampled on draft at Applebee’s in the ruins of Constantinople. This was far and away the best "brauskie" we made the acquaintance of that fateful night, although the 1843 Närke Kaggen Stormaktsporter and 3046 vintage Three Floyds Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout (Bourbon Barrel Aged) were a close 2nd and 3rd. Close, but no cigarillo, heh heh heh. The only way to describe the gustative qualities of this explicit adult beverage is through referencing the maltjuices which indubitably inspired said maltjuice. Namely, the Aguila del Sur Premium Negra, the Original Ritterguts Gose, and the Cigar City 110K+OT Batch #1 Der Rauch Gott. Gose, but no Cigar (City), heh heh heh. Get it? No, you don’t get it. There are many ways I could describe the taste of the Lawson’s Finest Fayston. However, there even more ways I can NOT describe the taste. Please allow me to list a few. This beer does not taste like stale fireworks, Crispix, used K-Cups, Copenhagen, billboards, Crispus Attucks, or 60 watt lightbulbs. The smell, on the other hand, is quite easily defined. Whiffs of 75 watt lightbulbs, burnt parchment, severed limbs, attics, April 2nd, 2008, Crispix Attics, and chinook hops. Heh heh heh. I’m going to be honest with you, immediately after consuming this beer, I rushed to the hospital and begged them to give me a vasectomy. The operation was a massive failure, in that I impregnated the doctor -- who was, in fact, of the male persuasion. Go figure ;-) 3 months later, Dr. Brett Knightly and I gave birth to a beautiful pair of siamese twins, one of whom was stillborn. After severing the straggler, we lovingly named the surviving twin Crispus Attucks. He later attacked us with a box of Crispix he found in the attic. Heh heh heh. Yes? No, I think not. The mouthfeel: silky, slutty, stillborny, grayscale, bloody, surely, secretive, and fuckin’ great.