Mudshark Abominable Winter Ale

Brewed by Mudshark Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Lake Havasu City, Arizona USA

Serve in Snifter

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Growler pours with a mahogany colored body that supports a tan colored head of foam. The aroma offers up dark roasted malts, cream soda notes and a bit of burnt malts. The taste starts with some dark roasted malts moving into a sweet cream soda sensation and then ending with smooth subtle mint notes. Pretty nice but nowhere near as tasty as the version from Stone.

A very dark beer, almost black. It has a lot going on in each mouthful, and at times can be a little overwhelming. It has the chocolate and mint flavors that it is supposed to have, but finishes with just a hint of coffee flavoring to it. A good beer, but I couldn’t have more than one at a time.

Tap at Papago. Deep brown pour with a lasting chocolate brown head. Mint fudge brownies with a hint of roast on the nose. Fudge, brownie batter and Andes mints. Not overly sweet, not too much roast or mint. Really a helluva good mint stout. Better than the stone version.