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Saranac Imperial Stout

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1763.55/5.03.53/5.09%30.8Snifter
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Mt. Marcy, Skylight, Algonquin...Majestic Adirondack High Peaks - They are the inspiration for our "High Peaks" series, a line of beers that are bigger, more complex and flavorful; beers that are meant to be sipped and savored. The second in our series, Saranac Imperial Stout, is brewed with eleven malts to balance a delicious chocolate and coffee roasted flavor with the spicy herbal character of the generous kettle and dry hops. At 50 IBU's this beer captures the essence of the Adirondacks. Enjoy!
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 oteyj (745), Canterbury, New Hampshire, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/104/516/20
Feb 5, 2008  
Motor oil pour with roasty aroma and magnanamous tan head. Flavors were burnt malt and roasted barley with great hop integration. Complex, smooth, drinkable, and toasty. This is quite the imperial stout, and I feel like it is highly underrated.


 Eyedrinkale (3209), Astoria, New York, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/104/514/20
Feb 5, 2008  
Draft. Holds a head pretty well. Aroma has a nice balance of roastiness and hoppiness. Flavor is coffee roasty and weirdly hoppy.


 DocLock (4648), Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/514/20
Feb 5, 2008  
Pours deep blackish with 1-finger or so of tan head. The aroma is roasty dark malt, some chocolate and molasses hints. The body is medium in heft, fairly complex, with a roasty malt element coupled with some dark chocolate and nutty notes. This one stays on the dry side, and is very well balanced. Well done.


 craftycarl21 (543), South Hero, Vermont, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Feb 4, 2008  
delicious beer. chocolate mixed with espesso taste, along with definite hoppiness- nice complexity. really good aroma, extremely dark in coloration, with a dark head as well- lives up to its imp. stout qualification. great beer, really enjoyable.


 HogTownHarry (3998), Toronto (Harbourfront), Ontario, Canada
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Feb 4, 2008  
Bottle (12oz). Thick-looking ruby-black pour, huge light brown foamy lasting head. Nice dry roast coffee aroma, chocolate, light sour cherry, leafy dry hops - damn that’s a nice-smelling Saranac! Taste is dry, deep coffee ground acidic roast, dry herbal hops, but wow, where did all that campfire and peatiness come from? this is borderline rauch - really nice - underlying it is pretty solid hop bitterness, and alcohol, but the smokiness dominated on my tongue. Slick, somewhat still mouthfeel, fairly acid and a long bitter smokey finish. Wow - six-packs of this 9% beauty for under $10? Sure wish I could get them regularly ...


 coldbrewky (719), Saugerties, New York, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/105/518/20
Feb 3, 2008  
Draft at the Dutch Tavern in Saugerties NY. Folks...ifn yah can get a hold of this one then by all means do so. This may be the quentisential impy for me so far. Beautifuly put together with such intensee creamy maltiness that your are barely aware of the chocolate intensity that hits you in the second wave. A small center of bourbony heat is brought out in a larger quaff. It took me until the third mouthful to even notice the intense hoppiness that rings the entire brew. Alcohol is present upfront but you know this aint no light beer. One rockin brew. Saranac has redeemed itself with this most fantastic pint. I hope I get back for more before the keg kicks.


 TheEpeeist (1445), Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/516/20
Jan 30, 2008  
12 oz bottle. Ebony with a slowly settling tan head. Nose is molasses, figs, coffee and some tar. Body is substantial but seems thinner due to medium carb. Taste is bittersweet chocolate and coffee. Orange grassy drying, alcohol, bits of licorice. Much better than the nondescript Saranac beers i remember from my pre-Ratebeer days.


anthlovesbeer (67), north grafton, Massachusetts, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/105/518/20
Jan 23, 2008  
You heard right...11 different malts go into this work of art! Deep, dark and welcoming in the winter evenings here in New England. The brown-colored head says it all. Very smooth with a silky mouthfeel. Worth every penny!



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