Scotch Irish Tsarina Katarina Imperial Stout

Formerly brewed at Heritage Brewing Limited
Style: Imperial Stout
Carleton Place, Canada

A pitch black beer with a lazing brown head. The aroma is sweet with notes of caramel, chocolate, and malt, and the flavor is sweet malty with notes of chocolate and roasted malt.

Bottle: Pitch black in color, moderate to large light brown head, foamy, fairly nice lacing.   Dark roasty malt aroma, slight hop bitterness, a touch of lactose and campfire or charred wood.   Sweet roasted malt up front, a bit tart and twangy on the backside.   Average Imperial Stout overall.   Not that heavy, moreso a step between imperial and a standard stout.   Sweet malty finisih, roasty, very slight appleskin.   Thanks Jeremy for the bottle

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(Bottle 34,1 cl) Completely black and opaque with a light brown head leaving laces. Aroma of bitter chocolate and hard roasted malt. Medium body with a light tartness and some sweetish bon-bon-like accents - like vitamin C lozenges?? Lightly bitter malt finish. Thanks to presario for this small gem. 020606

Pitch balck color with a dark tan thin head of swirls. Chocolatey roast aroma with some dark fruit. Flavor is a good match with more of the slightly sour, ripe dark fruit character. A sweeter imperial, but nice.

Thank you, Hogtown Harry for sending this in our trade. The pour was ebony with a 1-finger dark brown head. The aroma was huge roasty malts, chocoff, corn flakes, molasses, some hops, and some figs and prunes. The flavor was dark roasty malty, with a big chocoff and molasses flavor, backed up with some jalapeno oils, cacao, tobacco, and brown sugar. Very rich, smooth palate, while retaining a great smoothness.

Bottled, thanks to HogTownHarry. Poured a beautiful black with a short cap of loose bubbly mocha head. Deeply roasted coffee, dark chocolate, raisins, figs, and licorice provide a very nice nose. Flavor has a heavy licorice and chocolate base with coffee bitterness around the tongue and some alcohol in warmth at the finish. Leafy bitterness finds the finish as well. Medium-heavy bodied with only a mediocre transition across the palate. Solid brew that I’d certainly drink again.

Courtoisie de HogTownHarry
<P>Couleur extrème brun foncé, collet brun moyen qui a disparu. Légé arome de café raisin sec assé plaisant. Goût de cassonade, raisin sec, fumé et choc mi-sucré. Asser bien.

thanks to CaptainCougar for the bottle. had that look of used motor oil on the pour, this sucker was thick & black. aroma was of raisins, prunes and some smokey qualities. taste was dark bittersweet chocolate, coffee, brown sugar and more of the raisins & smoke. not a bad impy. but thought it had an odd bitterness on the tail.