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Southern Tier Jah-va

Southern Tier Jah-va - Imperial Stout

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 Percentile 
99
overall
Brewed by Southern Tier Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout

Lakewood, New York USA

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
6643.93/5.03.92/5.0Winter11%83.1Snifter
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Commercial Description:
Three thousand feet above sea level in the misty mountains of Jamaica, some of the worlds finest Arabica beans are hand picked on their way to becoming Blue Mountain Coffee. Halfway around the world, plump spring barley grows to maturity in the loamy soil of North America while aromatic hops are cutivated to exacting standards. Here in our kettles, these three special ingredients are blended to create a heady mixture of sweet sugar, dark roast, and complex flavor. Please enjoy this brew in moderation.
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 IndianaRed (1553), Boise, Idaho, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/104/58/104/518/20
Jan 8, 2008  
Bottle pours a clear deep black with a modest brown head. Strong sweet chocolate and cofee aroma. Flavors of tootsie roll, coffee and the bite of plenty of IBUs. Still quite sweet and tons of roasted flavor. Delicious.


 efrumtheidiot (190), Maryland, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/515/20
Jan 7, 2008  
pours a thick, oily black/brown with a tannish brown head. head is thin. aroma is green coffee beans, roasty dark chocolate, some dark fruits and rich, rich fudgy chocolate. taste is similar to the aroma with lots of coffee beans, almost straight espresso, less of the chocolate flavor and a strong roasty quality. this one might be really good with age. thick, oily mouthfeel with a bitter finish. alcohol is there, it adds a very sweet quality to it. imagine making a batch of espresso that was twice the normal potency and drinking it straight. very nice, i feel. i notice the kahlua that others have pointed out. i really think this would get MUCH better with a year or two of aging.


 clingman71 (239), Centerville, Ohio, USA
4.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/105/519/20
Jan 6, 2008  
Bottle. WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!! Pours a deep opaque almost black with a brownish head, small in size but thick in density. Huge aroma of roasted malts, coffee, and dark cocoa. Flavor is also huge, coffee and bitter dark chocolate flavors dominate, but ther is a hop bitterness right in there as well. This beer is AWESOME!


 brewandbbq (269), Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/105/518/20
Jan 3, 2008  
Vintage 2005 Pours opaque black with barely translucent mahogany edgework. Barely a trace of head steps up, and brown in color. Aromatics are a blend of dark chocolate and rich, oily coffee beans. Akin to a fudge-spiked espresso atop an imperial stout sundae. Certainly imperial in nature, and lucious. Mouthfeel is velvety smooth, rich and thick. The pallet is massively laden with chocolate syrup and rich coffee. The coffee essence is not of a "grounds" nature, but a well brewed, strong, and non-astringent variety. Alcohol is warming, but negligent behind the enormous flavor profile. Finishes with lingering Hershey’s syrup, Kona roast beans, and Kahlua. Super decadent and very well integrated after two-plus years. Well worth the wait if you can sit on this one. This flavor of this beer blows the doors off the Mikkeller Black Hole I had over the weekend.


 tomthompson89 (1459), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/105/518/20
Jan 2, 2008  
wow amazing pour pitch black nice mocha color brown foam , nose is alcohol, choc,coffee, really good. taste is great big roasted coffee some dark fruit some choc and still some alcohol, big malty flavors great great beer


 brewblackhole (1367), Muskego, Wisconsin, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/105/517/20
Jan 1, 2008  
Aroma is like a coffee liquer mixed with chocolate cake alcohol was really blowing out,we couldn’t read the ABV # but I’m not surprised to see its 12%, taste is rich chocolate caramel cake ,subtle spots of alcohol ,coffee only comes through in the finish. Palate is rich and smooth. put the ABV at 9-10 kick up the coffee a little bit and you have a classic. Thanks Kingpin


 Enjoyit (1697), Vadum, Denmark
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/516/20
Jan 1, 2008  
Black of color with a brown head. An aroma of liqurice, dark fruits, chocolate and alcohol. A flavor of liqurice, chocolate, roasted malt and coffee.


 fordest (1954), Santee/San Diego, California, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/57/103/517/20
Dec 30, 2007  
22 oz bottle shared with toncatcher. Nice dark pour with decent tan head. coffee and chocolate aromas. Not as much coffee flavor as I had expected, but still roasted malty chocolate and some coffee. Still pretty darn tasty.



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