t Smisje Catherine The Great Imperial Stout

Brewed by Brouwerij De Regenboog
Style: Imperial Stout
Assebroek-Brugge, Belgium

bottle, pours dark brown with a big tan head. Hoppy nose. Huge biscuit malt flavors, little bit of alcohol and a roasted flavor. This is an enjoyable beer.

208 Bottle - Pours amber with a large offwhite head...aroma is malty, smokey and thin...flavour follows, charred wood, burned grain...well hidden alcohol...not too good...

Lots of Belgian yeast, recognizable as a Regenboog beer. Very dark brown. Fairly dry, lightly roasted with malt, but not very sweet. Probably more of a Belgian strong.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.