Shorts Imperial Carob Stout

Brewed by Shorts Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial Stout
Bellaire, Michigan USA

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle. Color black with small brown head. Aroma malt, roasted, chocolate, caramel. Taste sweet, coffee, caramel, vanilla, bitter finish.

Bottle #461 of 912. Pours opaque black with a creamy dense beige head. The aroma is chocolate, roasted malt, coffee and ripe dark fruit. The flavor is bitter roasted with notes of coffee, chocolate and ends up quite bitter. Very nice! ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

On tap at the pub. Pours black with tan head. Aroma is chocolate, and roasted malts. Taste is malty and chocolate with a coffee finish.

Sample at 2013 MBG Winter Beer Festival. Dark color with spicy chocolate aroma. Spicy with some heat and a bit grainy.

Medium brown head. Nearly opaque black body goes deep dark red at edge. Alcoholic cocoa aroma with nutty earthy notes. Dry-sweet sherry nougat and earth taste with fruity wooden notes. Mid-to-full body. Mild, soft, smooth mouthfeel. Dryish fruity cocoa aftertaste with nutty sherry earthy spicy notes. Interesting, unusual, and highly drinkable. (0.76l bottle, City Beer, San Francisco.)

Duft af kaffe og læder. Ikke meget skum. Smager af mørk chokolade og lidt syrligt. Eftersmag af kaffe og lang bitterhed. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

13th September 2009
Opaque black beer with a nose of dark chocolate. Palate is silky and a little dry. Rich unsweet dark chocolate, pretty full on. Espresso like bitterness. Not much else going on until the finish when a sliver of hop comes through. Okay but it’s bit one dimensional, really needs something to balance the bitter chocolate.

#1360 Bottle; Nose is leather, earth, cola, wet field, feel is watery, carb is quite low, taste Is sour earth, cola, some warm alcohol, rotten fruit, late mediumbroad sweet roasted malt

UPDATED: JAN 25, 2012 (Bottle) Pours dark brown to black. The aroma is near medium toasted and light to medium roasted/burned with tones of chocolate, dark berries (blueberries and blackberries), nuts, syrup and a strange vegetal note. The flavour is medium to heavily toasted and medium roasted with tones of nuts, chocolate and berries. The mouthfeel is quite fat, light oily and medium carbonated. Bourned and light sourish finish. Medium to full bodied.

Bottle split with mcberko. Pours black with almost no head. Aroma of carob, espresso, chocolate. Flavour is the same with an extra chocolatey palate. Palate is full-bodied and complex.