Newport Beach Dead Cowboy Imperial Stout

Brewed by Newport Beach Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Newport Beach, California USA

Serve in Snifter

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Draft: Chocolate brown. Loose bubbles establish a light-beige head which diminishes quickly. Nose is heavy on the roast, alcohol, and baker’s chocolate. Hints of sugared blackberries and nutty coffee. Quite yeasty, as well. Creamy carbonation, but relatively thin in body. Initial expression of roast-derived coffee links up with juicy plums which anchor the body. Hops collide with the roast to generate a dryish bitterness. Leafy hop acidity is compounded by the strong alcohol and dirty yeast notes. Dryly tannic with hints of burnt caramel, but flabby and underattenuated. Finishes beefy with java, but brashly hoppy and unpleasantly dirty/yeasty. Roast is fairly poignant and clean, but it’s tainted by the yeast and poorly cloaked alcohol. Pretty dull and boring.

GABF 2006. Black bodied with a small tan head. Nose is roasted malts, bakers chocolate and coffee. notes. taste echoes this with more chocolate notes and a bit more coffee. Body is near full with a moderate carbonation. Chewy feel to it. Ends with more chocolate, coffee and roasted malts.

GABF 2006: Opaque black color with a tan head. Nice strong aroma of roasted malt and coffee. The flavor was the same with roasted malt and coffee dominating. Nice smooth balance of roast, bitterness and malt. Good warmth. Listed as 8.5%

GABF 2006. The best non-barrel aged imp. stout that I tried @ the fest. Huge, malty body w/ chocolate predominating. An excellent beer.

I had this on draft at NBBC. BTW, they’vve renamed it to "Dead Cowboy Imperial Stout", a much better name IMO. It pours black with a two finger tan head and has a nice aroma of chocolate and coffee. The mouthfeel is very creamy and smooth. The flavors are of chocolate, coffee w/ a nice sweet feel. Very good.

On tap at Newport Beach Brewing Newport Beach, CA. Pours with a one-finger brown head, goes slowly leaving some lace. Black color. Light-medium carbonation, heavy body, chocolate/malty nose. Starts with a strong chocolate/coffee flavor, middle sweetness, smooth finish. The ABV is 7.5%. $4.00 for 16oz. glass.

GABF 2005: Nearly opaque with a thin tan head and some lace. The aroma has notes of chocolate, toffee, molasses, vanilla, woody, and earthy yeast esters. The taste is sweet and mocha overtone with a light molasses twang and coffee bitterness on the finish. The feel is creamy even if a bit thin. A warming finish, I wrote down "what is the ABV of this" and surprised to find out it is only 8.5%. Some nice complexity but seem not to put it all together.

Yellow-to-brown head covers the darkest brown glow. Aromas are quite straightforward, limited mostly to cocoa and coffee with a whisper of floral hops. Foamy palate is oatmealish and highly alcoholic. Very hot in mouth, it seems to focus more on its ABV than actual malt flavours. A bit raw and aggressive.

Pour is black with thin brown head...smell is woody and sweet and a little old...well balanced toasty sweet flavors with a mild bittereness in the end...good stuff...

Black black body with tan head. Aroma is medium sweet, coffee. Taste is moderately sweet, coffee, roasty, light chocolate, faint anise, alcohol well hidden. Creamy, medium-full body.