Propeller Revolution Russian Imperial Stout

Brewed by Propeller Brewery
Style: Imperial Stout
Halifax, Canada

Serve in Snifter

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2 bottles shared with HogTownHarry, GregClow, tupalev & jerc -- courtesy of jerc. Pours a very dark brown with an average size diminishing creamy light-brown head. Very nice aroma of roasted caramel malt, coffee and chocolate. Flavour of roasted malt, a bit of chocolate, coffee and some alcohol. Medium bodied. This is really good!

Black core, coffee head. Molasses, caramel, roast barley aroma. Alcohol, sweet coffee/chocolate malt. Chewey. Very true to style, and not for the faint of heart. Bieropholie/MacAuslan blend? Or did OKBeer already say that? Needs a new label.

Very Good example of the style Chocolate, fruit in nose, bitter chocolate on The palate, with a touch of coffee Very Dry, full body that holds alcohol well Well balanced. Good stuff!

Bottle courtesy of Okbeer straight from Halifax. The pours out an excellent color and head for the style. Exceptional looking impy stout. Aroma is mostly muted coffee. Didn’t get much else, other than a fruity like smell?? Has a nice solid mouthfeel- lively roasted malts with some other sweet tastes- amost like smores -chocolate and marshmellows. Hops are there but in a supporting role. The roast in the malts shows up more on the finish. There’s still some sort of fruity flavour I’m picking up that I can’t place. Its great to see a Canadian brewery taking a stab at this style of beer- so big kudos to this east coast brewery. A very enjoyable impy stout and it would be nice to see more canadian takes on this great style of beer.

[216-20060302] 341mL. Dark chocolate aroma with a light tangy figgy fruit background and a bit of roasted malt. Black body that pours a big brown bubbly head. Flavour melds a coffee roast with medium chocolatey hints and some rich brazil nuttiness. Full body is nicely rolled out with mostly invisible alcohol. Overall, wonderfully blended!

Black body with a good sized creamy brown head. Mildly roasty, chocolate mocha in the aroma is rich but simple. (8+) Dark malty flavour with understated dark fruit, moderate mocha and light notes of chocolate. Medium palate. (3+) could be more full for my liking but is lovely nonetheless. Very n ice! Many many thanks to OKBeer for sending this out this way. 8+/5/8/3+/17

Bottle ( Thanks MM) The Pour: Black as a taxman’s heart with a lovely fine pored chocolate cap that looks like an Areo bar...moderate retention though... and strangely, not great lacing. Monor points. Demure, delicate nose...the smells you expect in a RIS are there but they don’t jump out at you..cocoa, chared husk, molasses, tobbaco..all there but very delicately presented. Upfront a great big chaw of patent malt is instantly balanced with juicy hops....mid palate the flavors develop; sweet cocoa, toast, figs, nuts, ...going into the long finish we get some drying and a wonderful sweetish- licorice decernment...light astringent "char" in the after taste. This beer absolutely hides its 8% alcohol till the finish where the malts and hops blend with it to give a very excellent licorice taste.. This isn’t the most potent or pronounced Russki Imperial I’ve tasted, but it is one of the most drinkable and certainly tastes good fresh....no cellaring to mellow raw hop edges off this RIS. it’s ready now and really tasty....it’s dangerous how fast a few of these will fly down the hatch.

Pours black, blacker than even Guinness, can’t see even a hint of light through it. Thin brown head and aroma of dark roasted, nearly sweet malt. Dark roast and coffee malts, solidly bitter finish, a little light in the mouthfeel, but can’t even taste the high alcohol.

Bottle (341ml). Courtesy of Biegaman!. Oily flat black pour, not much head, but pretty lush looking. God DAMN that’s a lovely oily, sour cherry dark roast aroma, very malty - yeah! Taste is not as sweet as the aroma, coffee and baker’s chocolate, oddly fast finishing but solid and not too bitter, hardly any booze character to it at all. Oily, silky mouthfeel, a little fruiy acidity on the tongue, Very solid stout, a little light for an imperial, but VERY drinkable.

UPDATED: NOV 1, 2007 Black, with copper higlights, thin ring of small brown bubbles leaving lace with mild visible carbonation. Aroma is roasted toast, with nutty dark chocolate and toffe-like candy hints. Flavor is initially bitter, opening up to a nice roasty taste with the hints of toffee. I found the mouthfeel is light for an imperial, but extremely palatable. This could be my new session ale, even though the session may not last too long