t Smisje Catherine The Great Imperial Stout

Formerly brewed at Brouwerij De Regenboog
Style: Imperial Stout
Assebroek-Brugge, Belgium

Serve in Snifter

Bottle, picked up from The Hop Duvel, Gent and consumed 26-12-07 Poured a very dark reddy amber colour with white head. The aroma was sweet malts with sourness around the edges. Tasted roasty with burnt wood dominating initially only to subside to reveal good hops, sourness again, quite tangy but to be fair the sweetness holds firm against all of these other tastes. This is a very interesting and unusual Imperial Stout.

bottle - Pours dark brown with a fizzy tan head. The aroma is of roast malt, dark fruit, and alcohol. It has a roast chocolate malt flavor with a hint of fruit and noticeable alcohol. It’s medium bodied, not as heavy as most American imperial stouts. The chocolate comes to the fore more as it warms. Good.

Very light aroma of coffee and chocolate, dominated by a soury smell. The carbonation dominates the taste, which has a sour aspect in it as well. Some roastyness and coffee taste as well. This might be better if it is aged a bit, but it will still not become my favorite.

Bottle from Beer planet web shop. hazy brown color with huge light beige head. Aroma of chocolate, toffee, caramel, hints of some berries. Taste, chocolate, dried plums, caramel, toffee, coffee, hints of wood. Long bitter finish. Highly drinkable beer.

Aroma is more like a BSA than an Imperial Stout really, while the appearance is more a Dubbel than an Imperial Stout. The flavor is decently malty with some chocolate. Sorry, an Imperial Stout needs to be jet black and not smell like a BSA, a few characteristics don’t cut it.

bottle from magasin. murky muddy brown, smooth offwhite head. Aroma is pretty yeasty, slighlty herbal, also roasted malts and anise. flavor is roasted malty, slightly citrussy, anise, yeast, faint fruity.Flavor and aroma is about as messy as the beer looks. There is also a little grassy spicyness in there. Somewhere in this gian herbal grassy yeasty mess is hidden a decent imp.stout. I can taste it now and then.. but boy,it is wrecked.

Dark red brown body with a big white head. Sweet malty aroma with caramel and licorice. Plenty of carbonation, medium body. Roasted malts in the flavour, some coffee, slightly bitter finish.

Bottle pours brune color with root beer float type head. Aroma dark fruits, Belgian yeasts. Sweet taste with grapes, dark fruits, lactose, vanilla, chocolate and caramel. Strange sweetness, almost like coconut. Finish moderately bitter and prolonged, doesn’t really match the fruity taste. Full palate with high carbonation, not sticky or syrupy. Alcohol slightly apparent.

Strange beer, I don’t know how I would classify it. Kind of a Belgian strong ale/barleywine/stout hybrid but I’d be hard pressed calling it an imperial stout.

330ml bottle poured dark brown in color with a huge beige head and lots of soapy lacing. Aroma of roasted malts and chocolate with a hint of coffee. Taste is roasted malty sweetness with a nice balance of hop bitterness. A rather enjoyable imperial stout.