Terrapin Wake-n-Bake Coffee Oatmeal Imperial Stout

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

In short: A rich and smooth imperial stout. Very good beer.
How: Bottle, 22oz, at unforgettable super-snowstorm Montreal suburb tasting session.
The look: Black body with a small tan ring of foam
In long: Chewy oatmeal and molasses mixture. Coffee flavour is closer to an actual black coffee cup rather that roasted coffee beans. Roastiness level is below average for the style and the beer really feels smooth and creamy. Moderately sweet. Smooth carbonation. Shy hops. Overall this one has a very nice rich malted body but would require a hop bite at the end to make it a stand out. Will require another try because I had this one late in the tasting session and when we opened the Wake-n-Bake I was NotTooAwake-n-Baked.

Bonused bottle from Colemgm8. Pours a thick, motor oil colored opaque black with a nice foamy brown head. Nose is black coffee with a hint of sweetness. Palate is dark chocolate milk and coffee, or rather like those little Starbucks Expresso double shot cans you buy next to the Red Bull at convenience stores. Nice creamy mouth feel. Alcohol is well hidden. This was a different, but very tasty Impy Stout.

This was a nice coffee roasted flavor ips and i nice and smooth ips not to sweet at all,the ABV was not that high and i think that is what made it so smooth and tastey and creamy not bad at all.CHEERS!

Pours a pitch black with a coffee colored head. Aroma dominated by roasted coffee, also containing malty chocolate and toffee. Extremely smooth tasting with lost of roasted coffee maltiness, chocolate, caramel, toffee and oatmeal.

Thanks ncvbc for the chance to sample this brew the 12 oz bottle poured into my sniffer produced a fingers worth of cocoa colored head that dissipates into a nice ring of lace around the glass. The black coffee colored body kind of made me want to pour it into a coffee cup instead though. Aromas of black coffee, warm oatmeal, and a light chocolate smell filled my head. Taste like my morning coffee actually, the oatmeal helps mellow out the strong bitterness of the coffee and gives it a little sweetness. The pallet is just creamy enough to fool my tongue into believing that there is cream in it. Nice and creamy mouth feel no carbonation so very thing. Very drinkable but definitely a sipper because that is the way I enjoy my coffee.

Bottle, thank you Unclemattie! Brilliant potent java aroma offers more than just coffee: there is a big slice of Black Forest cake on the plate too. The pour is thick and tarry like striking oil. Hardly any head but has tan surface layer like a shot of espresso does. Little to no lace. Mouthfeel is mind-blowingly silky and incredibly chewy. Slight thinning out towards the finish has the effect of making me want more; it is deceptively light. Remarkably creamy, just the right bitterness, like cappuccino grew up and became beer.

Yup, liked it. Ultra-black beer that pours thick and oily like a world class imp stout. There isn’t much complexity to this guy, all malty coffeeness with tons and tons and tons of roastidy roast. Dark brown head that quickly dissipates to nothing. Very excellent indeed, and while it is perhaps very simple, it is done perfectly.

12oz bottle. Aroma is of coffee, chocolate, some hops. Nice black hue with a tan averaged sized head that mostly diminished and left virtually no lace. Flavor is chocolate, coffee, and malt. Palate is flat and medium full bodied. A good Imp stout but low on ABV and has a slightly off metallic character to it.