Midnight Sun Berserker

Brewed by Midnight Sun Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Anchorage, Alaska USA

Serve in Snifter

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650 ml bottle.
Pours a pitch black colour with a small beigeish head on the edges. Aroma is very rich with notes of dark chocolate, cacao nibs and strong mudcake. Flavour of strong roasted malts, licorice, strong dark chocolate, bourbon, pungent fruitiness, mudcake, caramel and wood. Full bodied, oily mouthfeel and a warming, vinous, long, malty, bourbon-like finish. Rather well balanced, but maybe a tad too thin. The mudcake notes here are quite unique.

650ml bottle from Ales Unlimited, San Francisco, CA

Pours pitch black with a small light brown head. Lovely aroma of roasted malts, wood, vanilla, oak, hints of syrup and tobacco. Taste is smooth, sweetish, malty and roasty with notes of oaky wood, vanilla, some stingy notes as well. Finish is vinously smooth and warming with some hints of oaky wood, vanilla, bourbon and red wine. Excellent, well balanced and tasty imperial stout. Alcohol is well hidden.

Bottle pours thick purplish-black with chocolate thick head. Aroma dark fruits. Taste dark fruits, vinous notes, molasses. As it warms a little bourbon and oak comes in. Palate thick. Alcohol apparent. Finish prolonged dark fruits.

A departure from the standard imperial stout. Most tend to be the Roast/chocolate/coffee dominant while this is dominated by dark fruits.

Big, sweet, and robust is. Some whiskeyand maple notes, chcolate, barrel, and a slight smokiness.

Dark pour. Complex nose. When cooler, I could get maple and molasses, as it warmed, whiskey and oak especially dominated the flavor and aroma.

Bottle shared by @lanisha23. This was a damn good stout. Was toasty, mildly sweet, tobacco, and chocolate with a hint of bourbon. Didnt seem as strong as it actually was. Great whale!

22oz bottle, split 4 ways. A: Color the same as the heart of its namesake. Thin lazy mocha head. Slides and oozes on the rim. N: A blitz of bourbon and maple. Molasses is present as is chocolate, caramel, and vanilla. T: Bourbon, caramel, chocolate, and a twinge of metal. Cherry and...sourness? It’s more of a coffee like acidity. Molasses might be a culprit, too. Can’t say I’m thoroughly enjoying it. M: Thick but not perfectly so, filling, alcohol is well hidden. O: I can see why people might think this is infected. It’s missing that the thick treacly element it should have. Well balanced but just off in a way I can’t quite put my finger on.

Bottle. Pours black, with a brown head. Aroma is roasted malt, dark fruit, molasses, tobacco, chocolate, and red wine. Flavors are roasted malt, red wine, dark fruit, chocolate, molasses, and alcohol. Heavy, creamy, palate coating body.

Bomber from a trade on BA. Pours black with small tan ring. Aromas of bourbon, roasted malt, coffee, chocolate, and some dark fruit. Flavor of some lighter than expected bourbon, roasted malts, chocolate, tobacco, and loads of dark fruit. Finishes with dark fruit lingering on the tongue and takes away from the enjoyment of the beer. Mouthfeel is solid. Nice looking and aromatic stout, but just doesn’t jive with my palate.

Pours black with a dark tan head. On the nose there is a nice oak aroma and some hard roasted malts. It gets softer over time, as most stouts do. The sam thing can be said about th flavour. It is quite rough in the beginning but gets softer and gentler with time. The flavour are hard roasted malts, very dark chocolate, robusta coffee. Rough. Gets gentler and becomes creamier with more vanilla and lighter chocolate. Very enjoyable.