Scotch Irish John By Imperial Stout

Re-rate. Bottle. This pours brown almost black in the glass with a bubbly chocolate milk head, two inches in height. Looks wonderful. The aroma is full of dark chocolate, some coffee; smells a bit lactic. There’s some sweetness in the flavour, maybe some cherry, still plenty of espresso beans moving to a more creamy medium roasted coffee (with milk?) with some milk chocolate, leafy hop bitterness, medium finish. Around here, this is one to pick up each winter; sadly there are times when the number of stouts like this available here = zero. Shame.

Stubby bottle. Pours black, with brown, almost milk chocolate head. Leaves some lace. Aromas and taste of coffee, strong, chocolate, and roast malt. Thick. Good example of the style.

(BCTC, 33cl bottle, thanks mds) Small brown body topped by small beige head. Aroma is moderately sweet, chocolate, some smoke/burnt. Taste is medium sweet, caramel/chocolate, some roast/smoke. Low carbonation in medium body.

Medium strength chocolate/coffee roast malt aroma with a bit of dry cocoa powder. The body is dark brown to light black and holds a thumb thick, diminishing, head. Lots of roasty, bitter coffee and malt notes. Fairly dry and burnt. Vague dry dark fruit. No real sweetness. A fairly big feel and heft for a sub 7% abv beer.

12 oz bottle, via puzzl and TheCheeseMan. Pours a dark black body with no light passing thru with a tight bubbled light brown head. Very roasty nose with a ton of bakers chocolate, some coffee, soy sauce, nutty malt, and a slight burnt note. The flavor is roast dominated, fairly dry, with a nice burnt meat, almost charcoal like, note. A little touch of salty soy sauce lingers on forever on the finish. There’s almost a little of a sour mash character to it, not close to a Harvey’s Imperial Stout, but it almost seems like if could develop into that type of beer. Medium bodied with a slightly clingy finish that makes the finish linger forever. Pleasant moderate soft carbonation. Overall, a unique Impy to say the least. Towards the end of the bottle the salty burnt finish does get a bit overwhelming.

bottle. pours black with creamy tan head. extremely roasty and chocolate nose, touch of soy rounds it out. flavor is roasty, chocolate, ashy, soy, very minimal sourness. somewhat sweet chocolate finish. thin body. solid impy, only 6.7%? I doubt it.

Stubby bottle. Indeed; so brown I’ll call it black. Steady bubbles keep a dark brown light foam head. Looks like the film on a pot of hot chocolate on the stove. Tasty dark chocolate nose. Heavey bitter taste even after the first sip. Very blackstrap tasting.

Deep black in colour, rich tan coloured head, average retention, light lacing. The aroma is rich, chalky, lots of dark malts, coffee and chocolate, some sweetness, very light alcohol. The flavour is lightly sweet, medium roast, coffee and dark chocolates, a bit burnt. A little thin in the mouthfeel, medium body, medium carbonation. Finishes burnt, sweet, lingering.

Being a thin body hurt this for me. I found that this one didn’t last very long either. After a few months a few bottles that I had had already started to sour a bit.

341ml bottle from the LCBO in Peterborough, Ontario.
Opened on December 26, 2007.
Vintage 2007.