Terrapin Substance Abuse Ale

Brewed by Terrapin Beer Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Athens, Georgia USA

Serve in Snifter

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This poured a mury darker brown color with a small tan head. Aroma wasof coffee, whiskey and tart cherries. Flavor was a bit astringent, and tart from the cherries, some green coffee flavors, light roast and chocolate. Reminded me a bit of duck rabbit the end of reason, but with less tartness and more roast.

Tastes more like a wine than a beer. You can taste the alcohol that the beer is aged in. No carbonation at all.

On tap at Cervezas in Miami, FL. Listed at 8.1% ABV on the menu. Black beer, with a frothy, brown head. Strong aromas of whiskey/bourbon mixed with chocolate. Tastes of dark chocolate, dark coffee, hints of vanilla, and a very noticeable, boozy touch of whiskey that warms. Semi-sweet chocolate aftertaste. Very boozy finish/ Strong, heavy beer.

I was lucky enough to score about a pint of this overall. Good ol’ WnB with some serious whiskey aging in this glass. Dark, roasty huge whiskey nose and outstanding flavor.

Nearly black pour. Brown head. Boozy aroma with chocolate and roast. Tons of JD in the flavor! Lots of roast and dark chocolate too.

Tastes like a bottle of Jack was straight up pored into the barrel. Black pour with an aroma of chocolate and booze.

This glorious beer pours a dark thick black with a huge dark tan head. Smell is very sweet lots of vanilla with some roast. Taste is nothing like wake and bake. Only a little bit of coffee mostly sweet. Very rich like butter toasted vanilla beans sprinkled with dry coffee grounds.

8/24/11. On tap. Opaque black pour with a nice thick, creamy tan head that sticks around and laces quite a bit. Huge bourbon barrel aroma on this puppy - oak, vanilla, buttery coconut, coffee, roast, and more whoa buddy. Huge bourbon barrel flavor as well - delicious vanilla, wood, and coconut on top of the awesome roasty and coffee filled deliciousness that is Wake n Bake. Very nice.

A-jet black in color with a thin tan head of what actually is created. S-the nose has roasted coffee with notes of whiskey and lots of sugary malt sweetness adding plums and cherries. rather sweet. T-light notes of coffee with hints of whiskey and a ton of malt sweetness. the coffee and strong dark fruit sweetness don’t make a great combination and there really isn’t much else happening. M-this is thinner than I would have liked and falls off in the back lacking carbonation but does have a smooth and creamy feel to it. D-not bad but rather simple in flavor profile and the barrel aging has thinned this out too much while not imparting much flavor.

On tap at Capital Ale House - Downtown on 08/18/2009. Dark black body with a thin brown head. Big coffee, whiskey, caramel, chocolate, roast and vanilla aroma. Burnt roast, lots of coffee, whiskey, vanilla, oak, rum-soaked fruit flavor. Full body with moderately low carbonation.