Maltus Faber Imperial

Brewed by Maltus Faber
Style: Imperial Stout
Genova, Italy

Serve in Snifter

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Bottled. A pitch black beer with a thin tan head. The aroma has notes of alcohol, roasted malt, wood, and soy sauce. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of roasted malt, alcohol, soy sauce, and wood, leading to a dry roasted finish.

Pitch black with a medium beige head. Sweet aroma with burned malt, dark chocolate and coffee. Flavour had burned malt, dark chocolate and coffee notes.

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of Dedollewaitor. Pours pitch black with a beige head. Aroma of solid hard roasted malts and licorice. Solid body, low in carbonation, hard roasted malts, dark fruits and licorice but also a strange manure touch. Ashy finish, not really bitter or alcoholic in the finish. 010510

33 cL bottle, courtesy of Papsoe. Pours dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is dark chocolate and vanilla. Roasted, overripe fruity and a mix of liqourice and dark chocolate. Mild acidic and hard roasted malt finish. Lasting dark chocolate impression. Dry into the far finish.

330 ml bottle. Courtesy of FatPhil. Shared w/ FatPhil & mjs. Lotto #014.
Dark brown almost black colour with no head. Dark roasted malt, berries, wine and biscuit in aroma. Roasted malt, notes of coffee, berries, wine, hints of hops and some some alcohol warmth.

330ml bottle (Johny’s, Rome)
Black, a touch turbid, no head. Lovely savoury aroma, a touch of gravy. Very low carbonation, smooth palate. Mellow burnt taste, a little savoury , but not as much as the aroma - good chocolatey corners, but not caricatured. Covers tha alcohol well, but the residual sugars noticeable. Finish is slightly burt, and pretty hoppy, but the noble hops are a touch papery at times. Solid beer, but not wowing me.

(Botte at FatPhil - courtesy of FatPhil) Poured black without any head. Aroma contained liquorice, roastedness, chocolate and vanilla. Palate was full bodied with quite low carbonation. Flavours were roastedness, burntness, ash, soy sauce, chocolate, liquorice and biterness. Aftertaste was roasty, malty and mildy bitter.

Bottle 330ml. @ home.
[ Trade by Dedollewaitor ]. Clear medium to dark black color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly lasting, light brown head. Aroma is heavy malty, roasted, burnt, chocolate, coffee, dark berry, brown sugar, vanilla notes. Flavor is light heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is creamy to oily, carbonation is soft. [20091102]

Rating #4900. Thanks very much to Dedollewaitor!
Black with a tiny tan head. Aroma of licorice, dark chocolate, dried fruits and vineous alcohol. Brilliant complexity, certainly helped by the aging. Much the same notes about the flavour with some port wine, and that cherry note you find in the best aged English imperial stouts and foreign extra stouts. There is just a mild roasted character in the finish with a touch of wood even. Awesome beer!

Bottle from Birratrovo, Como; first beer of the year
Black color; medium sized beige and creamy head; suspicious fizzy noise. Very good chocolate aroma, spreading in the room, with cookies, some roasted malt and traces of liquorice. It has a rather oily mouthfeel even if the body is not very strong; the dark caramel and chocolatre flavor is immediately joined by a strong liquorice flavor; some of the roasted malt bitterness grows towards the finish, the end is also very salty.
It gets better after some breathing in the glass.
Indeed interesting, with some degree of complexity; it could be better with a stronger body.