Two Brothers Northwind Imperial Stout

Discount Liquors, Milwaukee, WI. - 12 oz bottle. Pours a ruby red to tar black with loads of sediment floating about. Sports a medium sized mocha head which fades rather quickly. Aroma has a touch of ripe fruit and roasted coffee. Flavor is not as pronounced as most Imps, but there is a pronounced coffee flavor, some wine n the background and a bit of unidentified fruit. Mouthfeel is thick enough, but not up to Imp status. Overall, good, but not great.

Bottle: Courtesy of Styles. Roasted coffee with light chocolate aroma. Pours a dark brown with an off-white head that quickly fades to a ring. Flavor is almost all roasted coffee. A touch of chocolate barely peaks thru. Coffee sticks into the finish and lingers into the aftertaste. Not strong enogh. Not big enough. Not thick enough. Almost no malt. Lacking in most areas of an imperial. It’s not bad, but it doesn’t live up to Imperial qualities.

Bottle. This one came in a trade from BrockLanders. Thanks dude! Pours black and clear with a few floaters and a nice tan head. Nose is decent, nothing out of the ordinary for the style. Ok aromas but not earthshattering. Taste immediately hits with cocoa and hop bitterness and hints of coffee, but not much sweet malt in the first few quaffs. As it warms and I get to the chunks, it sweetens a bit and balances a bit better. Not bad palate, but not extraordinary in any way. A solid beer, but not an award winner.

Dark black color. Small sized white foamy head. Aroma is roasty malts with chocolate and coffee. A medium bodied Imperial Stout. Malts are roasty chocolate and coffee, with a touch of vanilla. Hops are slightly spicy with a touch of bitterness. Smooth creamy taste, Solid stout. Mouthfeel is a touch thin. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly sweet.

Black with almost no head at all. Some roastiness and some chocolate but the flavors don’t mesh well. Too thin bodied without much flavor.

This beer comes courtesy of beerguy101. This beer pours a fairly light black color with hints of magenta and murky brown. The head was small and mildly tan with a light degree of lacing. The aroma is coffee, vanilla, with no alcoholic presence, but definitely a lactic quality...perhaps milky stout reference. The mouthfeel is full bodied with chocolate, oak, caramel and butterscotch dominating. I’ve never been a personal fan of any stout with lactic qualities so hint hint..... There’s some active degree of carbonation in here with a mild, dry, bitterness in the finish. Some oakey qualities interspersed between the milky qualities...solid but nothing special.

thanks to captaincougar for this bottle, pours a deep brown with very little head..that little bit rings the inside edge of the glass with a tan ring. aroma is malty with hints of smokiness and chocolates. soft coffee flavors in the roasted malts with a chocolate tail and very little bitterness. very nice balance in the flavor and a medium thickness give this a very nice mouthfeel. at the very end, there is kind of a bittersweet mouthfeel, but that is really the only negative i find. i would have liked a little more body, but i can live without it due to the quality of the flavor.

At the very first whiff, roasted malts jump out of the glass. There are some cocoa and coffee accents which leave an impression that hints toward a smoked stout. Color is a deep brown, near black, and the pour looks thinner than expected. The head consists of a tan ring that traces the edges of the inner glass. Flavor is rich and bitter. Profound coffee complexity. Dry, and hints at being smoked again. Malts seem to drown out all 45 IBUs, and the smaller-than-usual 7.5% ABV doesn’t provide that craved kick that I look for in an imperial stout. Finish is dry and coffee-laden; thin. The beer seems to be losing carbonation by the second. This is more of a dry stout in my opinion - not enough alcohol, accentuated hops and proper viscosity to play with the big boys.