Odell Imperial Stout

Brewed by Odell Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

Serve in Snifter

Rich, dark, and bold. Coffee, chocolate, and a bit of tasted bread. Alcoholic and delectable. 9/13/2008.

Draft from the brewery. Pours black with a tan head. Nose of dark roast grain, with notes of coffee and chocolate. Fairly standard impy stout.

12 ounce bottle shared by BrewEngineer at the 14th Richmond Ratebeer Gathering, 3/19/11. This has some age on it, but I’m not sure how much. Pours a hazy dark brown color with a thin creamy tan head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of sweet roasted malts, honey, nutty notes. The taste is roasted malts, bitter hops, honey, coffee, nutty notes. Full bodied. Nice beer.

Poured a rich, opaque black with a good bit of off-white foam on top. Aromas of roasted malt, baker’s chocolate and lightly roasted coffee. On the palate, this one was fairly full bodied, with flavors of chocolate, coffee and roasted malt.

On tap @ brewery. 8.9% ABV. Dark brown aspartame with a creamy brown head. Dark roasty, chocolatey, espresso, a touch milky nose. Dark chocolate malty, milky, espresso flavor with a creamy mouthfeel and pretty bitter finish. This is the base for the Bourbon Barrel Stout, just isn’t barrel aged. I’m not very impressed, especially the milky, bitter elements.

2007 bottle shared by Dan at The Royale- thanks, Dan! Pours a dark brown color with a tan ring for a head. Aroma of coffee, bacon, chocolate, brown sugar, dark fruit- very complex, especially given the age on this. Flavor shows less of that bacon smokiness than the nose and instead has notes of chocolate, coffee, brown sugar, molasses, dark fruit and earth. The body has thinned to a light-medium level and has low carbonation and a smooth mouthfeel. Nice imperial stout that I’ll get fresh when and if they re-release it around here.

Bottle. Pours a black body with a tan head. Aromtically malty body. Chocolate malts and dark fruit tones. Black raisins, a bit roasty witha hint of licorice. Mild warmth with a nice bitter coffee esk roastiness. A decent low abv IS.

(Sample Date: 3/19/2011 Source:BrewEngineer) Grainy roastiness with possibly some floral hop notes. Black with little head. Big molasses notes in flavor with dark fruits following. Medium to full body and mouth feel. Finish is dry and roasty with dark fruits and molasses lingering. Tasty.