t Smisje Catherine The Great Imperial Stout

Bottle: Moderate depth brown pour with a huge tan head. Smells of Belgian spices, yeast, cloves, and a bit dry/dusty. Perhaps a little toffee. Tastes of a wierd chocolate and coffee blend with heavy roast. Nutty. Some lingering bitters. It did get better as it warmed up, but it seemed more like a porter mixed with a Belgian strong.

one of those glacier broken mountain-like heads...almost cotton candy in appearance, or maybe thick like a milkshake. Unfortunately the beer underneath was a light brown mud. The lightest brown I’ve ever seen on an imperial stout. The nose was just spent grains with a lactic like twang near the end. Flavors were nutty and astringent, hiding alcohol well, but more of a strong nut brown ale than an imperial stout. Its rather sweet with belgian yeast characteristics as well. Some caramel too. Highly carbinated. Not really an imperial stoutish beer, but drinkable nonetheless.

Pours a dark brown with some ruby highlights with a two finger creamy tan head. The nose is sweet, fruity, earthy, has some alcohol, candy, yeasty. The flavor is a tad sweet, some warmth, malty, fruity, rusty, crisp, kind of like a dubbel. The palate is crisp carbonated and warm. Definitely not typical.

Bottle, dark brown pour, some off white head. aroma is somewhat yeasty belgian malt, light roast, and chocolate. the flavor is the same... its odd with the pit fruit belgian malt base, and the stout flavors really arent overpowering like most in this style.

Bottle. Hazy dark brown colour with a huge head. Rich aroma and taste of roaste malts, coffee nad caramel. Nice mouthfeel.