Terrapin Wake-n-Bake Coffee Oatmeal Imperial Stout

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

Bottle 355 ml
Appearance: pours as thick dark brown sludge with medium lighter gourmet brown crown.4-
Nose: espresso dark feel ,roast with hint of cocoa beans , brown malts with hint of hop and dry alcohol. Solid heavy nose. This great aroma goes even deeper with time giving impression of fuller rounded character.
Flavor/Palate : full bodied. Bold coffee dark roast , smoky with tar with based brown malts. Sticky , earthy , black soil noted. Not for everyone , fairly dry for me to enjoy such approach. Dry late showing alcohol.

bottle from capone’s (welcome to Philly Terrapin Beer!). Pours a thick, viscous black with a rich tan head with fine carbonation. Aroma is coffee, chocolate, licorice and roasted malts (though the aroma is a bit underpowered for some reason). Velvety smooth mouthfeel. Flavor is at first sweet and malty and it quickly transforms to a coffee bitter before ending with a nice hop bite. Normally I don’t like flavored beers, but this is a really really good coffee stout.

I love this brewery. I never heard of them till this week. This is one of the best brews from them. Beautiful Black pour with chocolate aroma with swirls of coffee in the nose. Taste was a smooth hoppy surprise.

[bottle] Whisky and coffee aroma with a touch of vanilla-y oak. Oily thick black, opaque with light brown wisps and ring. Sweet coffee-molasses flavour, followed by coffee and pumpernickel, and ending with a subtle bitterness and strong vanilla. Almost a clean finish, with some nutty bitterness, full body, moderate carbonation.

This poured about as dark as the darkest coffee, with a very thin ring of head at the top. Almost immediately you smell the roasted malts and coffee with just a bit of bitter chocolate in the background. The taste is almost a mixture of a dark roast coffee with some dark chocolate (high cocoa content) thrown in. The finish has a mixture of the bitter chocolate and some slight piney hop flavor as well. I don’t get too much of an oat flavor from this but as a coffee stout it is a top notch beer.

Pours thick and black with two fingers of tan head. Leaves a crown. Smells strongly of roasted coffee bean with a small hint of chocolate. The malts dominated the nose. Tastes is similar with a very malty taste with coffee and cream all around. Delicious and one of my favorite imperials period. Mouth is thick and coating, carbon is low/med. Drinkability, I could have this all day. Amazing brew.

Intriguing musty chocolate aroma. Viscous dark brown pour, headless. Well blended and balanced flavor of chocolate and medium roasted coffee. Excellent lasting bark and coffee finish. Next to the India Brown, this is my favorite beer to date from this fantastic brewer. The label art lead me to believe that there would be more biscuity doughy chocolate notes, but that wasn’t the case. Even so, it turns out to be a very special beer, but in a different way.

Bottle. Pours black with a small dark brown head. Aroma os dark chocolate and coffee. Dark chocolate flavor, followed by alcohol. Finishes bittersweet.