Scotch Irish John By Imperial Stout

Brewed by Heritage Brewing Limited
Style: Imperial Stout
Carleton Place, Canada

(Bottle) Pours a dark brown body with a spare tan head. Aroma of roastiness, cocoa, caramel, and light burnt wood notes. Flavor of chocolate, roasted malt, coffee, and some dark fruit.

I think I have to thank Jeremy for this one - great! Dark beige head over black beer. Extremely chocolatey nose, dry with a tad sweet-smelling caramel behind. Dry, ashy flavours, lightly smoked, with a good bar of dark chocolate behind it, the kind flavoured with coffee and chunks. I think you’d get the kind if you could condense this. Though rather low on alcohol, it is still warming. The saturation enlightens it, but I’ve seldom had a beer that cried "sustaining" as much as this one. Very good stout. You Canadians can keep calling this "Imperial" only as long as you keep Lizzie as head of state, however. Foreign would suit it better - or Royal?

341ml bottle acquired in trade with ughmash (thanks!). Poured a dark black color with a smaller sized tan head. Aromas of coffee, charred wood, caramel, smoke, and roasted coffee. Tastes of chocolate, roast, some dark fruits, coffee, and some vanilla. Kinda of like an Imperial Stout lite but very tasty and very drinkable.

Shared bottle from ? - thanks! (ZBF2008) (sip)
Dark brown to black. Coffee aroma. Great burnt taste - but not at all astringent. Coffee and chocolate finish.

ZBF2008@RB table: From bottle. Pours dark brown to black with a little tan head. Thick chocolate aroma, light coffee note. Dense chocolate and coffee flavour. Quite dry and solid malt base. Ends with a lingering bitterness mainly from the hard roasted malt.

Courtesy of ughsmash much appreciated with this awesome looking bottle. Poured into a snifter with oily black color and medium frothy tan head. Nose of heavy cocoa, coffee, cream, roasted malts. Mouthfeel of lots micro bubbles with light to medium body. Initial taste is heavily roasted malts, dark chocolate bitterness and coffee. Mid palate caramel sweetness and moving into a burnt coffee. Finishing moderately hopped, roasted malts and mild chocolate. Some resin is noticeable. A slight bit too roasty for me but as my palate endured about half a glass it started to become very enjoyable. Palate duration is above average. Good head retention and minor spot lacing lacing of the glass. An easy drinking imperial stout. Thanks Jason!

Bottle at ZBF 08. Not sure who Duff mugged for this one. Black colour with lasting tan head. Choc aroma on an impy stout. Nice hops. Very choccy and smooth in mouth. Long bitter choc finish. Good.

Bottle. [thank you, Boutip!]
Wonderful bottle btw... Pours a very deep brown, bordering on black. On top is a good, creamy light-brown head - much like coffee cream. Wonderful complex aroma, that belies the relatively subdued ABV. Coffee, deep dark chocolate, caramel and light viniousness. Mouthfeel is generally rather nice, slightly creamy but still light. Flavour is impressively balanced, lots of coffee, sweet sugars, a nice subdued hoppy profile and a good dose of chocolate and roasted malts in the aftertaste. A really impressive Imperial Stout when the ABV is taken into account. Wonderful!