Marin Platypus Venom Imperial Stout

Brewed by Marin Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Larkspur, California USA

Serve in Snifter

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On tap at City Beer 7th Anniversary party. A keg of last year’s anniversary beer was tapped for consumption this year. It pours dark brown with a modest tan head and a treacle aroma. There is a chocolate and vanilla flavor with vegetable notes and a dry finish. A nice reprise.

On tap at city beer. Pours black with Brown head. Taste is burnt malt and some licorice. Decent brew.

Bottle, shared at Clusterfork. Pours a moderate black with small tan head. Aroma is good and plenty candy mixed with chocolate sauce. Taste is more anise/good and plenty candy. Chocolate from a candy bar wrapper and some light vanilla. If you like anise, still stay away from this beer.

Bomber poured a clear dark reddish brown nearly black with a small lingering brown head. Aromas of licorice, roasted malt, graininess and light dark chocolate. Palate was medium to full bodied and smooth. Flavors of licorice, roasted malt and bakers cocoa with a smooth lingering licorice finish.

From the March 2013 3R6P tasting. +++ Sampled from a 22 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black color with a medium sized creamy dark brown head that left decent lacing. The aroma was sweet chocolate syrup, vanilla and a bit of roasty malts. The flavor was sweet cocoa, vanilla, faint toasty and roasty malts and touches of anise and booziness. Long finish. Thick and creamy body. Solid.

On draft at the 2013 SF beer week opening celebration. It pours very dark brown with a tan head. The aroma has some treacle and dark fruits with mild cocoa. A touch phenolic. The flavor is minty chocolate with some brown sugar. Kind of odd, but it turned out ok.

6th anniversary edition. 22 oz bottle into a pint glass. Thick and black with small brown head. Not much lacing. Smells great - very different with the expected toffee and bitter chocolate overpowered by the anise and licorice. The combo almost comes across like banana bread? Tastes like it smells with the licorice upfront and a nice bitter toffee cocoa finish. I like this. I'm keeping one in the cellar. I think this will taste great with a little age and mellowing of the licorice. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottle. Dark brown beer with a brown head. Toffee and chocolate aroma. Caramel and toffee flavor with roast and licorice. Fuller bodied. Toffee and caramel linger with burnt sugar, light roast, and licorice.

Bottle. Sweet boozh molasses laden dough. Black licorice. Raw sugar. Too sweet. Too much big potent black licorice.

Bottle share. Pours with a black hued body with a deep and retentive tan head with good lace. Aromas are fruity, brown sugar, coffee, lightly herbal, roast, light barrel, vanilla bean. Flavors are of cocoa, medium roast, earthy, leathery, vanilla, brown sugar and nutty. Lower carbonation, thick body, some what warming.