 redlight (1445), Winter Park, Florida, USA
Oct 21, 2007 WOW. The aroma is what i described as coffee with vodka, chocolate, vanilla, smooth. Pours dark brown, very dark. Smooth flavor, the alcohol is hidden unitll the very end where it bites you as it goes down, although to me it is surprisingly easy to drink. Licoricce flavors, chocolate, and its very warming.
kp (8400), Woodstock, Georgia, USA
Oct 21, 2007 Updated: Mar 23, 2008Date: 10/12/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting
Appearance: black, scant head,
Aroma: rich dark chocolate aroma with a hint of vanilla sweetness,
Flavor: rich dark chocolate flavor, lots of powerdy dry chocolate character, just a touch of licorice sweetness, hint of fruit character that will come out as it ages, light roasted bitterness in the finish,
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Date: 10/13/2007
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting
Words: unlabeled pre-release
Aroma: initially picking up hot alcohol in the aroma,
Flavor: also picking up some alcohol in the flavor but stays mostly in the background,
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Date: 02/10/2008
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting
Score: 3.9 to 4.0
Aroma: a touch of alcohol spicyness in the aroma in addition to the dark chocolate and fruityness,
Body: creamy body,
Flavor: rich dark chocolate flavor, lots of sweetness brings out the chocolate,
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Date: 03/22/2008
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting
more winey sweetness coming out
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 4/5.0
Drinkability: 9/10
Score: ***+/4
JMFG (1514), Florida, USA
Oct 21, 2007 Updated: Aug 17, 2008Mad props to dsnowden for this one! Jet black color with a thin dark tan head at the edges. Strong, intense aroma - cocoa, dark chocolate, alcohol, roast, in order of intensity. The taste is smoother than the aroma would let on - very roasty start, with spicy malts and chocolate coming out on the finish. The finish is also quite warming, but that is the most apparent sign of the ABV, since the taste is so smooth. A fantastic brew!
after4ever (2711), Brier, Washington, USA
Oct 20, 2007 500. Thank you so much, Maria! This is a completely overwhelmingly amazing beer. Just astonishingly good. Pours thick deep opaque black with a little bit of moussy tan head for a minute, but then it settles to headless, laceless stillness. Prunes, dates, soy, chocolate, and vanilla on the nose. Deep thick oily viscous body on the attack, fairly still, ultra intense flavors: soy, chocolate, white sugar, dates, plums, prunes. Just a huge churning maelstrom of flavors. Light tingling hop and soy bitterness on the finish. Just awesome stuff.
mj (4971), Colorado, USA
Oct 20, 2007 Updated: Mar 31, 2009Rating #3300. 500ml bottle. Pitch black body with a small, thin brown head. Huge, heavy and hot wine-like boozy nose, with notes of cherry syrup, port wine and oak tannins. Big merlot and syrah resemblance. Hugely thick up front, thinning out over the middle, turning into more of a thin and sweet fruit and sweet dark chocolate syrup note. And that’s what saves it - the chocolate syrup. Kind of a simple flavor, not too deep or complerx, but certainy delicious - sweet port/liquer and chocolate syrup. Finishes dry and prickly in the mouth. Very good stuff, I’ve not had anything like it before.
BeerBiker (1384), Odense, Denmark
Oct 19, 2007 [Odense-tasting at Scheffel. Bottle from Christian.] Heavy, heavy, heavy aroma and flavor of alcohol, coffeechocs, complexity. Nice black look with beautiful tanned head. Roasted, lasts for 2 hours, needs time to acclimate!
KingpinIPA (842), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Oct 16, 2007 Dark color. Smell of alcohol, chocolate cake, double chocolate truffles, hops, caramel, malt, tobacco, smoke, vanilla, roasted coffee, spice and brown sugar. Tastes the same but what I really like was the alcohol taste. It was like drinking straight up chocolate liquor. Very nice Impy stout. I cant believe that I spent $20, but it was well worth it.
sloth (1657), Ceciltucky, Co., Maryland, USA
Oct 15, 2007 Pour initially gives up a small brown head, fades quickly to a dark ring with some whispy trails left behind. This brew is black, period. Nose of dark fruits, raisins and maybe some plummy notes, berryish with a faint bit of roast and alcohol. Body? Med/full, large and oily on the palate, warming, coating and smothering. Faint flavors of chocolate and roast. Coffee? Plenty of alcohol flavor though, too much so. The alcohol becoming MUCH more evident as it warms, mouth puckering, almost astringent. Very warming, notes of licorice evolve but are overshadowed by the alc. content. Gettin hot. The alcohol seems to crush any flavors that are noticed initially. Big, warming alcoholly finish. An interesting brew that i will try again, but fairly disappointing really. Does,nt have the finesse of a DFHWWS from what i can remember. Another Impy. i need to go back to. Oh yea, good buzz factor! Bottle procured @ statelineliquors. Props to Robert for workin his ass off to get ahold of this one! Thanks dude!
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