Southern Tier Jah-va

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Thanks to the STL crew for sharing this fine imperial stout. Pours oily black with an orange head. The aroma has the perfect marriage of dark malt, creamy chocolate, mocha and rich cream. Full rich body that is oily and creamy and has low carbonation. The flavor starts out with dark chocolate, some roasted malt, dark fruits, cream and sweetened mocha. The finish has some light bitterness from roast and coffee. While I’m generally not a big fan of coffee beers this was done exceptionally well. Big thumbs up to this world class brew.

I finally found this beer after searching for ever it seems. It pours jet black with a thick 3 finger dark mocha colored head. It smells of dark roasted malt, coffee, and chocolate. The taste is perfect. There is plenty of roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, and caramel in there. The body is nice and full and extremely creamy. The bitterness is surprisingly low for so much chocolate and roasted malt flavor. I bought every bottle the store had, but I’m gonna have to go back and find more to buy. The only hit to drinkability is the whopping 12% ABV.

Glugs out a brownish black with a finger of chocolate milk head that dies slow. Smells of big coffee, chocolate and molassas. Taste is unreal. Not hot at all. The alcohol hides behind wonderful roasted coffee beans, chocolate, cocoa, molasses. Everything blends together in a delicious elixer. Very full in the mouth. If I have one complaint its that its a little too sweet and syrupy. Very easy to sip but more than one is impossible. A great treat.