Southern Tier Jah-va

Brewed by Southern Tier Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Lakewood, New York USA

Batch 1: Incredibly dense, and heavy. Pours super dark and has a very potent coffee odor on the nose. This is my favorite stout from southern tier, even over the oat. The powerful coffee flavor makes this a winner in my book. Very highly recommened. Thanks ST!!

22oz Bottle with big thanks from mkgrenwel for sending this GEM. WOW what a brew. pours out black topped with a cream tan head. A great coffee aroma. Tast of sweet chocolate and bitter coffee. Very thick and so tasty. Loved this one. I can’t wait to tast some of the others Tom shipped out to me.

22oz bottle from Secret Santa summer 07. Real good sweet chocolate aroma on the nose. Black body with dark tan head. Flavor is a thick rich dose of creamy chocolate and roasted malts. Had some alcohol bitterness in the mix but not a big factor. Body warming was cggod seeing it was a cool damp foggy morning in the desert. Thanks John from Pa. Only santa havn’t really figured out who it was.

Bottle. Pours inky black with a thin dark yellow/brown head. Aroma is huge wallop of espresso, dark chocolate, peat, burnt sugar, molasses. Flavor profile matches the aroma, more espresso, molasses, burnt suger, chocolate. Palate is massive, sans carbonation, finishes on the bitter side, with a huge, sticky, syrupy mouthfeel. Awesome.

Black with thick, creamy dark chocolate head. Aroma and flavor is rich roasted coffee, dark chocolate, brown suger and alcohol. Body is rich and thick and lays heavy on the palate. Nice alcohol warming kick.

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.

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.

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!