5 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 20/20
Bottle 650ml. Full marks, I love it. Aromas of liquorice, dark fruit, alcohol, spice, and a hint of chocolate. Taste starts sweet, with bitter notes, and very long length. Palate is syrupy, and full bodied. Black with a thin off-white head.
5 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 20/20
Pours midnight black with a dark tan ring of fizz. Smells very grainy and malt, lots of roast character and a touch of bitter hops. Taste is big, bold, bombastic: lots of dry roast bitterness, hints of chocolate, and a faint touch of alcohol burn. Full-bodied with a chewy texture and soft mouth-carbonation, Southern Tier (Imperial) Oat finishes with a touch of bitterness and a lesser amount of heat.
4.9 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 20/20
Bottle. This beer is just so perfect that I can’t complain much about it. The nose has a lot of roasted and coffee flavors to it, but it’s not overpowering. I can imagine a better smell from a beer. And that is the only thing I see as a "flaw" to this. I love this so hard. Hugely flavored, but easy on the palate. A great example of an Imperial Stout.
4.8 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
This may be my second favorite oatmeal stout... This is my first Southern Tier beer but I’m inclined to try the rest if they are all this good.
4.8 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Dayum good smooooooooth beer!!! Southern Tier is the shit! They make a consistently exellent product. This particular beer is semi sweet, slighty carbonated, robust, strongish yet mild, not bitter, resin-a-plenty, gentle raisin, a tickle of vanilla and brown sugar, caramel on the nose, actual chocolate and plenty of oats to make this a close reacher. SUPERB beer. Grown man’s beer at 11%. Second fav stout behind Lion Stout and third favorite beer behind Samichlaus Classic v2009.
4.8 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 20/20
Style and Glass: Imperial Stout, Snifter
ABV, Volume & Calories: 11% in 22 fl oz. estimated at 400 C
Purchased at: Circle Liquors Super Saver, Pennington, NJ for $8.99
Aroma: nice, coffee, roasty, quiet. 9 out of 10.
Visuals: beautiful design, black, opaque, little head, staying lace. 4 out of 5.
Taste: expertly balanced, coffee malt, full hops, very strong, expertly crafted. 10 out of 10.
Palate: highest quality, smooth texture, long dark finish. 5 out of 5.
Overall: A beautiful, rewarding, and expensively crafted brew. An absolute repeat, and a favorite, real value, high craft. 20 out of 20.
4.8 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Bomber pours thick and black into a snifter like motor oil. Opaque as beer can get. Had to pour aggressively to get a small head - dark tan in colour. Wow, what a stout. Aroma of all the best stouts - chocolate, roasted malt, coffee, molasses, hops as always from southern tier, but not so much alcohol. Considering it’s 11%abv, I don’t hint the insinuation of such in the aroma. The same applies to the taste. All roasted chocolate on the tongue - absolutely delicious. Leaves a creamy, oily layer of smoothness on the palate with a taste that lingers until the next sip. Again, wow, what a stout.
4.7 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
UPDATED: MAR 27, 2008 bottle - pours near black, but is a deep ruby around the edges when backlit. no real head from a standard pour. aroma was big on licorice, with some notes of alcohol. flavor was big, sweet but well balanced by bitter roasted malts. some alcohol and dark fruit flavors, as well as licorice. great mouthfeel - good viscosity. warming aftertaste. was probably the most popular of the beers we tasted tonight overall.
Just tried this one on tap at Capone’s. Even better on tap. A really REALLY good big stout (12.5% ABV on tap?)
4.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Tasted on tap at Chuck's. For my palate, this is as good as it gets. More subdued than some of the other imperial stouts I've tried tonight. But incredibly complex and perfectly balanced. Almonds and hazelnuts. Coffee and toffee. Milky smooth. Jesus this is great beer.
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4.7 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Bottle from Capone’s. This one pours deep blackish with 2 fingers of deep brown head, definitely one of the darker brown heads I have ever seen. The aroma is blackstrap molasses, roasty dark patent malt, chocolate syrup, ovaltine. The palate is very rich, oily, complex, and hefty, giving flavors of dark roasty malt, chocolate syrup, molasses, and some mid-palate blackberry notes, all melded together very well, and giving a super smooth, creamy finish with no detectable alcohol. This is truly an amazing beer.
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