Ottos Jolly Roger Imperial Stout

Brewed by Ottos Pub & Brewery
Style: Imperial Stout
State College, Pennsylvania USA

Bottle via trade with iowaherkeye...thanks Joey!!! This one definitely lives up to the rating. Dark brown leather bordering black with a small 1/4 inch latte-colored head that leaves spotty lacing. Aroma is subtle but inviting. Caramel, toffee, brown sugar, smoke and vanilla. The flavor exhibits darker notes: bitter chocolate, roasted coffee, and molasses...a hint of alcohol but it doesn’t take away from the brew. Thick, creamy and luxurious...great beer!!! Thanks again Joey!!!

bomber by way of kramer. pours fairly opaque and just next to black with a small orange tinted hot cocoa colored head. it fades rather quickly to a ring and leaves behind spotty lacing. smells a bit like clothes the day after you’ve been hanging around a camp fire... very mellow smokiness, milky chocolate, cooked dark dried fruits, umame/soy, loads of roasty grain, wood/vanilla and alcohol florals as it warms. tastes kinda like black bread... you know, the stuff steamed in a tin can... vanilla, wood, molasses, anise, unidentifiable dry fruit, roasty grain, tobacco and a spicy dry hoppy finish. alcohol burns a bit as it reaches room temperature but it is in no way unpleasant. coffee peeks it’s head in the aftertaste. velvety rich mouth feel with a medium full body. powerful and at the same time very chugalicious...

Bottle at first Oldsmar Taphouse BA Tasting. Courtesy of someone. The aroma is beef bouillon, tobacco, dark bittersweet chocolate, cooked dark fruit and smoke with a lot of boozy phenols. The body is black and holds a wispy brown head. Big chocolate, coffee fore. Very bitter roasted notes. Massive cooked dark fruit (prune, fig, cherries, dates and raisins) finish.

Bottle - Big, dark brown color. Heavy, oasty, smoky aroma dominated by wood, chocolate, and roast with a lot of big scents. Flavor is roasty and smoky with some dark coffee, chocolate, and a tad of licorice. Really nice impy stout that satisfies.

Bottle (RBESG 08): Intensely black; chocolate, cacao in the nose; full bitter-sweet flavour, full bodied, but easy-drinking; lingering, warming chocolatey finish

(Bottle) Pours black. The aroma is of sweet dark berries and chocolate up front with undertones of tobacco, blue and blackberries, molasses, dark bread, coffee and hints of brown sugar. The flavour is medium roasted and medium hoppy bitter with tones of mild molasses, brown sugar, tar, salt liquorice, dark bread and tobacco. The mouthfeel is light oily and smooth with dry finish. Some alcohol warmth is present. Medium to full bodied.

(6/29/08) Bottle sample at RBESG08 grand tasting in Plzen. Black-colored with a brown head. Aroma of heavily roasted malt, some chocolate and alcohol. Sweet flavor with almost burnt malt, dark chocolate and a bit of dark fruitiness. Quite full-bodied.

Nice lightly smokey aroma, a bit like hickory charcoal. Cola and, especially, rootbeer flavors with hints of licorice. 9% ABV is almost totally undetectable. Very nice.