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t Smisje Catherine The Great Imperial Stout

t Smisje Catherine The Great Imperial Stout - Imperial Stout

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 Percentile 
74
overall
Brewed by Brouwerij De Regenboog
Style: Imperial Stout

Assebroek-Brugge, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
1823.31/5.03.29/5.010%9.9Snifter
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Commercial Description:
Bottle fermented. Brewed with water, barley malt, hops and yeast.
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 thenick (742), North Bellmore, New York, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/54/102/59/20
Dec 22, 2008  
Pours a deep red with a tan head. The aroma is earthy with detectable malt and alcohol. The taste is sort of thin and confusing - it starts out slightly malty and then explodes into overpowering booziness on the end. Color me shocked, but this is a very rare miss from these guys.


 AmEricanbrew (1747), Louisiana, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/515/20
Dec 19, 2008  
Dark brown with a black and tan head. Earthy kelp mineral aromas with blackened malt. Medium body with a frothy mouthfeel. Nice dark chocolate flavor with a candi sugar sweetness. Blackened malts add a touch of dryness to the finish.


 drfabulous (1212), Columbia, Missouri, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Dec 16, 2008  
Lot of sweet in this stout. But like other Belgian versions of stouts, it is hard to call it a stout. What we call Imperial, the Belgians simply make malty.


 travita (1861), Frisco, Texas, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Dec 9, 2008  
Bottle thanks to bullzeye. Smell is wood, smoke, oak, and roasty malts. Looks amber colored with a light tan colored head. Taste is like licking a log, wood, burnt, oak. Light body for style, hides the alcohol well behind all that wood.


kapusta (84), Dover, Delaware, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/55/102/510/20
Dec 8, 2008  
cloudy muddy brownl body that ays beneath a rocky tan head. Flavor is strange, because it is not what you would expect from an Imperial Stout. This is rather sweet and grainy.


 PhillyBeer2112 (2084), Orange Park, Florida, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/517/20
Dec 8, 2008  
Well this one certainly threw me for a loop. Not that I am one to rate to style, quite the opposite, but I could help but be surprsised by the amber brown beer that poured from the bottle. Actually in the glass it was darker, a deep ruby brown but still translucent. It produced a voluminous stiff meringue of a head. Aroma was big on the sweeter things in beer, caramel and molasses, melanoidiny biscuity malts, perhaps a raisiny fruitiness that you would get from a quad. The flavor surprised with a touch of smokiness and roast, but just enough to offset a big sweet malt body. General fruitiness comes through toward the finish. Interesting beer, not an imperial stout as you would expect but then those quirky Belgians, you never know.


 hopscotch (5440), Vero Beach, Florida, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/104/513/20
Dec 7, 2008  
Bottle... Pours dark, cloudy and prune-colored with a large, frothy, off-white head. Never-ending retention. The aroma is of Russian black bread and light molasses with lesser offerings of dried plum, espresso, chocolate and a whisper of cinnamon. Full-bodied with medium carbonation. Despite a hearty malt framework, it leans on the acrid, bitter side of balance. Notations of port, tobacco, charcoal and lots of alcohol. Sweetness does take one step forward as it warms, but never usurps the dominance of the alcohol, burnt malt and hop bitterness. A touch of cardboard-like oxidation. Finishes bittersweet – more bitter than sweet. An odd marriage of a quad and a stout that doesn’t necessarily work all that well, but is certainly interesting.


 Rciesla (3500), Exit 15W, New Jersey, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/103/514/20
Dec 1, 2008  
Bottle. Pours a dark brown body with a 1" tan head. Creamy milk chocolate with sweet minerals. Calcium. Nice etoh warming and sweet and malty.



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