4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle at Papsø’s - Thanks. Very dark red/brown - brown head. Burned, medium hoppy, fruity, citrus, high malty, sweetness, light smokey, light oakey, light ashtray, light bretty, sparkling.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle at Papsø.
Pitch black coloured with a medium sized beige head.
Sweet and roasted aroma of dark chocolate and vanilla.
Sweet and roasted flavour of caramel, dark chocolate, hops and cocoa powder.
Roasted and hoppy finish.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
33 cL bottle. Pours dark brown to black with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted malty and dry breadish. Thick malty, mild acidic and dark roasted. Bitter, dark malty and roasted breadish. Ends dry malty.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
pitch dark, brown head.
lots of wood and a little wine in the aroma. Also roasted stuff.
flavor is roasted malts, wood , wine, licorice or candy.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of bluebetty. Pours pitch black with a lively black head - very lively actually comes gushing slowly. Lovely oaky aroma atop some hard roast and licorice. Only medium body, fairly dry roast, a little rustic from the barrel probably some bugs in there but also a mellow oakiness and some very bitter dark chocolate. Some malt astringency. But lovely indeed. 150311
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Tap at The Local Taphouse in Melbourne. Pour is very deep ruby to near black with a thin yet persistent, creamy, tan head. Nice wispy lace appears. Belgian candies, red licorice, tamarind, lime, burnt caramel, and other complexities that remind me of a Belgian Christmas ale. Taste is peppery, woody, dry, lots of bitter roasted malt, unsweetened chocolate, and near astringent bitterness and charred wood work together to make this the obvious imperial stout out of the blind tasting. Rich, dry, moving to silky palate. Very nice.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
2008 Vintage: Purchased for the express purpose of medium term aging. However, this did not look that good. Poured well with a big fizzy head and the nose showed dark chocolate with a faint hint of licorice. Nothing really took hold in the palate apart from a dry red wine woody note. Seemed quite dried out to me, suggesting age has not helped at all. A weird lemon / wood note to finish.
5 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 20/20
Tap, 2010, 7.9%. Wonderful, full marks! Aromas of caramel, chocolate, liquorice, coffee, spice, and alcohol. Taste is sweet, with bitter notes, and very long duration. Palate is syrupy, and full bodied. Black, with a frothy off-white head.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Quite complex. Lots of roasting and coffee notes to me which completely dominated. Easy drinking. Nice aroma. A good stout.
4.8 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Moo Brew barrel aged Imperial Stout Vintage release 2008/ bottle#0664 of 1515. Artwork on bottle by John Kelly 2005. What’s inside is heaven, very dark brown/black with a huge head that diminishes to a 10mm firm packed brown head. Premium roasted malt, coffee, vanilla bean, chocolate oakey tanins and a wonderful hop aroma evident. Taste is all about balance. Just spot on. Tried this one with a ’top brewer’ first word was ’Jesus’ then later ’Oh’. So we both liked it. Very under rated. The price $25au/330ml. way to expensive so don’t buy it. Hehehe.
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