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Midnight Sun Berserker Imperial Stout

Midnight Sun Berserker Imperial Stout - Imperial Stout

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100
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Brewed by Midnight Sun Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout

Anchorage, Alaska USA

bottled
common

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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
1144.11/5.04.04/5.0Special12.7%91.4Snifter
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Commercial Description:
Vicious and viscous, this menacing brew pours opaque black with a creamy maduro-colored head. Its aroma offers seductive whiskey, chewy red wine, dark fruit and lavish tobacco. Berserker Imperial Stout invades your taste buds with in-your-face flavor. Weighing in at almost 13% alcohol by volume, Berserker is completely out-of-control. Give it a good fight.
This version of Berserker Imperial Stout was aged in both red wine and whiskey barrels. The entire batch was brought back together before being packaged in kegs and 22-oz bottles.
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 WeeHeavySD (2941), San Diego (Hillcrest), California, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/104/516/20
Nov 17, 2008  
Bottle @ HotD Dock Sale via hannont, thanks Todd!!. Pours black with a tan ring. Nose is super rich, deep and full of tons of flavor. Taste is sweet and rich and full of major chocolate flavor. This is a big delicious imperial stout.


 mreusch (715), Olathe, Kansas, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Nov 17, 2008  
2008 vintage, 22oz. bottle, with thanks to NoonanDBarbarian on BA. Pours an inky black with a one finger creamy brown head, good lacing and retention. Aroma is milk chocolate, roasted malts, molasses, and only a hint of whiskey and oak. Flavor is more roast, chocolate, overripe dark fruits, and the whiskey/oak stays in the background, but remains very complimentary, nicely blended and everything going on works very well together. This opens up nicely as it warms, and overall is a very enjoyable IS, good stuff. Thanks again Brian!


 kramer (2407), Sunbury, Pennsylvania, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/105/517/20
Oct 29, 2008  
22 oz bottle, 2005 Vintage. Pours a perfect pitch black body with a small one finger chocolate brown head that slowly fell to a thick ring. Looks like a really relaxed beer. Great nose, big and bold, but not brash. Huge roast, subtle barrel aging, molasses, light smoke, lots of dark fruits, bitter chocolate, vanilla, and very minimal alcohol. Maybe the most complex and versatile barrel aged Imperial Stout I’ve smelled. The flavor is just as amazing as the nose. The barrel aging and the beer combine to perfection, neither one dominates. The bourbon is really hardly noticable, it’s way more driven by the vanilla and charred wood than most bourbon beers. Dark fruits, roast, a nice accent of burnt malt, all mingled together up front to make one great flavor, not a collection of individual flavors. The only knock is that there may be a bit of ashiness very late in the finish, but it’s really not a big deal. Zero alcohol flavor or feel to this, amazing at 10% ABV. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with a creamy soft texture and perfect soft fizzy carbonation. Never cloying or sticky in the least. Lingering roast and woody finish. I’ve never had such a smooth barrel aged Imperial Stout. This beer just sets a new standard of excellence for BA Imperial Stouts for me. This was just so well integrated, it was beautiful. Great beer on a great night.


 gator2683 (133), Anchorage, Alaska, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/105/59/104/518/20
Oct 25, 2008  
very black with a dark brown head. milk chocolate aroma with a little alcohol. taste is chocolate, a little bitter, and a faunt black licorice finish


 TheEpeeist (1429), Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/518/20
Sep 10, 2008  
22 oz bottle, 2007. Dark brown with a trace of tan haze. Nose is carob fudge brownies and espresso. Drinks lighter than it look with sprightly carb but still retains a creamy feel. Taste is chocolate, coffee, licorice, molasses and burnt marshmallow, especially the smoky notes. Gets better as it warms. Amazing balanced complexity. Wow.


 pantanap (1323), Chicago, Illinois, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Jul 3, 2008  
22oz bottle. big thanks to my alaskan buddy Tim for sending this one multiple times (i won’t get into the details)....deep dark, almost black pour with a thin light brown head that gravitated to the sides of the glass...aroma was certainly nice with a focus on bitter chocolate, an adequate roast component, and some wood and bourbon....roasted malt, chocolate cocoa, hints of toffee that become dominated by smoke and ash. adequate carbonation and decent mouthfeel.


 masonjer (560), Holt, Michigan, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Jul 1, 2008  
Shared by Pantanap at Kanarama. He tried bringing things off my wants list and noticed this wasn’t on there. I agreed, this definitely should have been. Thanks kan, sounds like it was a lot of work to finally taste this. Poured pitch black. Aroma is some bourbon and roasty notes. Flavor is roasty as well, nutty, some nice balanceing hop character, smoky, vanilla and chocolate. I liked the fact that the bourbon didn’t dominate, still retained a nice bitterness throughout. Last one of the night, so I have a feeling that my taste buds did not do this justice. Nonetheless, a great beer. Thanks so much Kan.


 kmweaver (2396), Sebastopol, California, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
Jun 16, 2008  
22oz bottle, courtesy of jjpm74. Thanks, John! Pours a very dark, chocolate-brown color; light tan head with fine-bubbled lacing. Generous amounts of chocolate and nougat in the aroma; cocoa, intricate chocolate notes, and chewy nougat / sweetness. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: intense, chewy chocolate (milk, cocoa), bitter chocolate, nougat, and caramel; solid amounts of toasty oak and soft vanilla; intricate, soft vanilla-infused chocolate, coffee, and intricate yeastiness / breadiness. Lenghty finish: milk chocolate, cocoa, and toasty vanilla and nougat notes; reasonably dry / toasty end.



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