Rivertown Death

Brewed by Rivertown Brewing
Style: Imperial Stout
Cincinnati, Ohio USA

Serve in Snifter

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Dark brown pour, tan head. Lots of green pepper, green jalapeno in the nose but flavor is muted and a bit thin. Roasty and vegetal notes. ok.

Bottle courtesy of Hopfilter. Pours dark brown with a small tan head and a bit of lacing. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, pepper, and toffee. Taste is pretty much the same as the aroma. Expected a lot more heat seeing as how ghost chili peppers were used. But there was still a decent pepper burn present. Full body, thick but oily texture, moderate carbonation. Decent beer, just not on the level expected. When you call a beer Death and add ghost peppers, you better deliver something extraordinary. This isn?t it. But it did go very well with pizza.

12oz bottle thanks to drsilverworm, pours a dark black/brown with a small tan head. Aroma is heavy on the vanilla with some milk chocolate and molasses. Taste kinda all hits at once, stall roasted malts, chocolate, and some slight pepper heat, then it abruptly falls off with no taste at all. Interesting, would like to see this with a more rounded flavor that finished better, just isn’t anything holding the favors together through the beer.

Bottle purchased at Blacklick Wine & Spirits. Pours clear dark brown with a thin beige head. Aroma of malt, creamy caramel and chile pepper. Malty and peppery flavor with chocolate and roast with a bit more pepper flavor with very subtle lingering heat. I kind of expected a ghost pepper beer to be a bit more hot. Oh well. I’ve got a bottle of Elevator’s Ghost Scorpion and I’m betting one sip of that will make me long for the subtle heat of Death.

12 ounce bottle. Pours a murky dark brown color with a medium white head. A sweet vegetal nose, nothing obviously too hot. A fruity flavor with additions of big heat and pepper, some caramel. The base isn’t big enough to hold the pepper, but it isn’t nearly as hot as other pepper beers, and pretty easy in some ways. OK. Like a brown porter base.

Deep brown, clear, beige head. Aroma very light with some bready malt and lightly earthy and vegetal pepper. Flavor of bready malt with a moderate peppery heat, some dry baker's chocolate. Wouldn't call it an RIS but not a bad pepper beer. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Poured from a 12 ounce bottle, thanks to Doug. Lots of cocoa, slight pepper flesh, slight heat, sort of bland. Not as hot as I thought it would be.

Smells of a freshly opened latex paint can, butterscotch. Clear dark brown, thin yellow head. Smoke flavor with a peppery bite. Medium body, alcohol not evident. One wonders whether the peppers were added to hide a diacetyl infection. I don’t mind a little diacetyl in a porter or stout.

Tap. Poured a dark brown color with an average frothy light brown head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate roasted peppers, chocolate and alcohol aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture and flat carbonation. Medium toasted chocolate malt spice sweet flavor with a medium dark sweet and small alcohol bite finish of moderate duration. This is an interesting beer.

On tap. Dark brown color, hue of red, not quite opaque color. Almost black. Thin light brown head. Roasty stout nose. A hint of pepper in the nose. Little loose lace. Chocolate, light roast, and a satisfying kick of hot peppers in the back of the throat, though not too hot as far as ghost chile ales can go. Medium body. Pretty thin and light for an 11% imperial stout, but I don’t mind it. Works with the hot pepper kick. Smooth, lighter carbonation. Taste is mostly sweet, with that hot pepper kick in the back of the throat. I’m taking smalls sips due to the hot pepper, but 11% alcohol is totally unnoticeable. Really interesting, tasty sipper.