 zappafan99 (462), South Carolina, USA
Apr 11, 2009 Taste 4/9 bottle. Looks: Black body with a tan top. Aroma: Fresh coffee, toasted malt, some wood and vanilla. Taste: Woody, a little chocolate and very acidic coffee in a thick body. The aroma was nice. The taste wasn’t. Unbalanced, sweet and very acidic.
dkachur (2315), Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Apr 8, 2009 22 ounce bottle from State Line. Brewed Winter 2008. Pours a thick viscous black color with a thin head. Decent retention and fair lacing. Aroma of bitter coffee, chocolate, nutty roasted malts, maple. Taste is rich chocolate, rich and slightly bitter coffe, rich roasted malts, maple and vanilla. It’s rich. Full bodied. Barely any alcohol noticeable.
njbfr (105), New Jersey, USA
Apr 7, 2009 Dark brown with a big tan head. Aroma is very light coffee and malt and metallic. Flavor is very sweet with a very heavy metallic taste. Probably just a bad bottle. Extremely annoying though as nothing from Southern Tier is inexpensive. Finish is very nice roasted coffee and very warming. Even getting past the metallic taste, I still don’t really care all that much for the flavor.
Adam77 (407), Eastampton, New Jersey, USA
Apr 6, 2009 Poured black with a tan head. Aroma of roasted coffee. Lots of coffee in this. Nothing else but coffee.
sethdude (600), St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Apr 5, 2009 Pours a thick, oily black (used motor oil) with almost no head at all. Aroma is indistinct sweetness, with some coffee in there as well (think coffee ice cream). Flavor is a bit much, and in this case, more is not better. Cloyingly sweet, alcohol very present following the big blast of sugar, hops lend some bitterness, but there is no balance here. It is, badly enough, excessively sweet yet bitter, rather than balanced. Harsh hops come in a bit late. The coffee flavor is fairly good, nice dark roasted beans play out after the swallow, forming the best part of this experience. Another highly overrated Imperial Stout that lacks balance, complexity, or craftsmanship. Shame.
ksurkin (354), Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Apr 4, 2009 10oz draft at barley’s in greenville. pours an extremely dark brown, but not quite black, with a long lasting cinnamon brown head. aroma was outstanding with big roast coffee, chocolate, earth, and roasty/nutty malt. flavor was delicious. huge rich coffee, bitter chocolate, pistachio, and a slight hoppy/dark fruit presence adding balance. palate was smooth, slightly thick and oily, with low carbonation and a long, bitter coffee finish. this beer really reaches it peak about half way through the glass as it warms. overall, great coffee stout.
ucusty (1871), Wake Forest, North Carolina, USA
Apr 4, 2009 Thanks to whoever graciously shared this at the beerinator tasting! Viscous dark pour, tan head and spotty lace. Mild espresso nose. Oily mouth-feel. Rich malty flavor coffee was slightly subdued. I would like to try this again when its a little more fresh
thegreenrooster (1811), St.louis, Missouri, USA
Apr 3, 2009 Pour is a dark black with no head at all. Aroma is a deep intense dark chocolate with a moderate coffee in there. Flavor is again a super nice chocolate with some coffee ,the coffee aspect is lower than i though it would be but it is still there to give this some bitterness after the sweetness of the chcoclate. Finish has some alcohol burn with a nice creamy slik left on the tounge. Not something your going to want everyday but it is quite good.
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