Schlafly Imperial Stout

Draught at Helsinki Beer Festival 2009. Dark reddish brown color with creamy head. Vanilla and bourbon aroma upfront with coffee and chocolate in the background. Sweetish, roasty and whiskyish flavor with firm bourbon barrel note. Some solventy and sharp alcohol notes. There are some tasty elements here but overall the stout is too much lost in bourbon.

Keg (HBF2009)
Very sweet roasty aroma, vanilla’s there, for sure. Salty taste - spicy - and a touch alcoholic. Yup, OK, there’s stoutness too there, that doesn’t need to be said. Tingly finish. Weird. Are there anchovies in this?

Draught 0.2L glass at HBF 2009. Pale brown head. Black dark brown colour.Malty nose. Soft chocolatey taste. Full taste with mild mocca aroma. Some hints of vanilla at finish. A very nice one.

(Draught at HBF2009) Black. Small tan coloured head. Liquorice and coffee in aroma. Full bodied palate with medium carbonation. Liquorice, whisky, coffee, roastedness, vanilla and oak in taste. Roastedess and bitterness in aftertaste.

Draught@HBF2009. Dark ruby-brown color, small beige head. Cocoa, oak and vanilla in the nose. Full-bodied, a bit sweet liquerish. Flavor is similar to aroma: cocoa, vanilla, some oak, some salted licorice in the aftertaste. Quite sweet impy, this must be barrel aged.8

(Draught@HBF2009) Very dark cola brown with a small, beige head. Roasty-malty aroma with licorice hints and some stinginess. Glue-perfumy, roasty and quite licoricey flavor with moderate bitterness and some black coffee. Medium to full body with soft carbonation. Hard to say if this is a bit unclean, or just interesting. In either way, quite enjoyable.

Bottled (thanks for sharing jarikumpul!). Dark brown to pitch black colour, small brown head. Aroma is bigtime roasted malts, liquorice, chocolate and also mild notes of coffee. Flavour is quite the same with the liquorice coming real strongly. Also Alcohol gives a nice warming touch to complete the whole.

This dark brown ale poured with a pock-marked tan head and a sweet chocolate aroma. There is a rich chocolate and caramel malt flavor with some nice bourbon warming at the finish.