kazooka (37), Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Jul 3, 2009 12 oz. into a snifter. Pours black with abundant tan head fading to frothy ring. Mocha, toffee, and fruity nose. Heavy bitter, medium sweet. Lightly carbonated, dried fruit, coffee, thick, creamy, chewy, sweet, finishing long, boozy, and very bitter. An exceptional example of this style, albeit a bit too harshly bitter.
jrallen34 (67), Illinois, USA
Jul 2, 2009 I drank this from a tap.
This beer is beautiful to look at with a dark body and creamy head that lasts for a while.
It smells sweet with a touch of alcohol.
The tatse is strong like its alchol content, with broad flavors of coffee.
A very fine stout.
beerfest5 (83), Simsbury, Connecticut, USA
Jun 30, 2009 one of the best beers on a cold new england winter night, some coffee overtones, but a delicious stout, be careful with it.
 vtafro (212), , New Jersey, USA
Jun 29, 2009 Bottle. Dark pour. Sweet aromas, alcohol fruit and dark chewy flavors. Felt like this beer was overhyped, will try again however.
Vertical Bacon Strips (581), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Jun 29, 2009 remember the first time I drank this beer - back in ’02 in my oversized hotel room in Temecula, CA. I used a lamp to open this beer and all the other ones. I had no idea what this was, I’d never had a beer remotely near to this... I almost died but somehow loved it none the less. At the time is was the harshest beer I’d ever had. I followed it up with some DFH Chicory Stout, which was another sodomy of the mind. I digress....
Poured out a large, creamy caramel coloured head that has amazing retention and leaves 360 degree lacing that layered like a well poured Guinness. The aroma is interesting but not the headliner for this beer. It’s a really good even mix of biscuit, chocolate, coffee and orange with smoke and grapefruit. Gets fruitier as it warms. This is an incredibly soft and creamy beer! The taste revolves around lots and lots of malts (roast, caramel, biscuit), lots of chocolate, coffee that is more in the background and tied in with the bitterness, roasted nuts, grapefruit, alcohol, sweet cinnamon candy, more fruit. So complex. Smooth beyond smooth. Full bodied, super fine carbonation, very thick indeed, very very long lasting bitterness with the mildest of coffee, obvious citrus hop finish. Ooop - just had some bakers chocolate show up right at the end. The after taste during the first quarter of glass was pretty harsh, almost bad in the way that it pulverized the end of the flavor but thankfully that fades. Wow - incredibly drinkable. My only qualm is that I think this beer would benefit from a bit less hops, not much, just a bit as they are fine in this brew.
randolphjj (59), Raymore, Missouri, USA
Jun 28, 2009 Sweet and bitter at the same time. There oats in there, because it’s nice a silky. Dark dark dark with all the signs of imperial stout - coffee, chocolate. Well balanced beer.
KnN (618), Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Jun 28, 2009 Deep black color with an off white head. Aroma is roasted malt, coffee, chocolate, all the usual Imperial Stout suspects. Flavor delivers the same roast, chocolate and coffee. Nice slight bitterness that complements without being overwhelming. Very balanced and very tasty Imperial stout.
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