Scotch Irish John By Imperial Stout

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

12oz bottle, no date from MaxxDaddy, thanks Max! Pours deep brown with a one finger creamy tan head, pretty good retention. First things I smell--roasted malts, milk chocolate, and piny hops. Toasted nuts and salty soy are more in the background. The flavor had the soy and pine coming forth stronger, and there seems to be more roast as well. Milk chocolate kinda fades until halfway through where it picks up with a nice sweetness. The finish is dry with some ash and roasty char, bitterness peaking around a 3-4. Full body with low prickly carbonation. Very good beer, I figured it’d be thin and blah with the low alcohol for the style, but it turned out just fine.

Bottle, sent to me by kramer. Thanks Jason! Pours deep brown with a tan lace. Nose is fairly muted with a bit of char, some nuttiness, . Flavor comes through with a bit of coffee, alcohol, smoke. Thin mouth feel shows a bit of booze in the finish. A nice change of pace from the heavy american imperial stouts I am used to.

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.