Sierra Nevada Narwhal Imperial Stout

Brewed by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Chico, California USA

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle. It pours a dark, dark brown body, looking clear, and topped by a dense, small, light beige head. Sweetish, bready, caramel maltyness in the aroma, with licorice hints. Some molasses and alcohol. It’s full-bodied and warming, with soft carbonation. Lasting flavor with roasted notes, molasses, bread hints and caramel. Some roasted bitterness. Hints of coffee. After a good while, the hoppy bitterness chimes in, lasting for a long time. A complex and tasteful beer well worth a revisit. 130216

Bottle. Very dark brown with small beige head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee and a little liquorice. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, medium sweet, little liquorice, hop, little vanilla and medium bitter with notes of alcohol.

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Black with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, coffee and chocolate. Flavor is very sweet and very bitter. Dry and roasted rather bitter finish. Oily. 160213

12 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy dark brown with a fully gone head. Aroma is toasted malty and chocolate. Dark malty, alcohol and sweet. Liqourice and chocolate. Dry and hardroasted malty finish.

Bottle @ The 4th Annual Fastelavns-Smagning Ulfborg, 2013. Pours black with a creamy beige head. Roast, chocolate and mild honey. Sweet and vinous. Charcoal notes. Long finish

dark, powerful, excellent. This beer poured a midnight black with a chocolate head. Taste was strong, alcohol, had a thick texture. Definitely a sipping beer. if your a fan of Sierra Nevada, this is a must try

It poured a dark black and gave the same color body. Some nice speckled, block-like lacing formed boxes around the sides of the pint glass, interesting. The smell had dry, roasty cocoa and coffee up front with a slight touch of hops in the background, and some vanilla as the beer warmed. The taste was dry and roasty between the coffee and cocoa and brought back some of that bitter hops. The finish was very dry. The palate was about a medium with nothing harsh on the tongue and fairly drinkable. Overall, this is a hopped up RIS that is very good and I would come back to.

Draft. Aroma: lots of highly roasted malts and coffee, chocolate, toffee, sweet notes. Appearance: jet black, opaque, tan head with average retention, good lacing. Flavor: coffee and dark roasted malts dominate, toffee and dark chocolate, nice balancing bitterness, sort of a dry roasty character up front and then a somewhat sweet finish. Well balanced, very drinkable. Palate: full body, low-medium carbonation, very smooth. Overall: really nice brew, balanced and flavorful.

Bottle at CP&K. It pours jet black with a medium tan head. The nose is roasted malt, coffee, toast, earth, cake and cocoa powder. The taste is roasted malt, charcoal, mild acidity, nice bitterness, earth, dark chocolate, vanilla and toast with dry, roasty finish. Full body and moderate carbonation. Not the most complex imperial stout, but very drinkable. Tasty.

12oz bottle. Pours a solid black, carbonated tan head. Aroma is boozy, chocolate. Taste is roasty, black licorice, booze, some bitterness. Good sipper.