 miketd (330), Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Apr 30, 2008
Bonus brew sent by MrBendo. Pour is black with a big, foamy head. Aroma is chocolatey rasberry and roasted malt. Flavor isn’t bad...sweet fruit and roastiness. A little thin and simple, but better than expected.
nearbeer (1101), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Jul 21, 2008 12 oz. Opaque chocolate with a large foam that sizzles down to a lasting ring. Aroma is cocoa, caramel and a hint of tart fruit. Flavor is chocolate-covered raspberry with a finish that progresses through the following flavors: caramel, molasses, coffee, charred wood, tobacco, and a touch of zesty green herbs. Medium-heavy body is both sticky and watery at times and tingly with a bit of dryness on the end. Pretty nice, but seems to be missing that something to push it over the top, and I can’t identify it. Maybe just a touch more of everything - body, roastiness, raspberry, hops, caramel malt.
Butters (278), Richmond, Virginia, USA
Jul 19, 2008 Beautiful black pour with creamy brown head that fades. Nose of Chocolate covered raspberries with the slightest hint of alcohol heat. Flavor is predominantly chocolate. It comes off as a bit ’hot’ when it first hits the tongue, but alcohol is not evident otherwise. Medium body with fair carbonation. Aftertaste of roast and dark chocolate. Certainly gonna buy this again
sirpsycho (155), Murrysville, Pennsylvania, USA
Jul 19, 2008 Bottle. Pours a very dark brown, brown head that disappeared quickly. Aroma is a medicinal fruit flavor, malt, maybe some roast. Flavor is dominated by the medicinal raspberry, reminded me of really bad cough syrup from when I was a child. Could not finish, maybe a bad bottle ? Will have to re-rate someday.
chicagodri (421), Chicago, Illinois, USA
Jul 8, 2008 Pours a dark brown/black with a nice tan head. Nice coffee, chocolate aroma and flavor, and a hint of raspberry in the flavor as well. Hides the 8% very well. Nice balance and easy to drink. Kind of sweet for an Imperial Stout.
gunhaver (541), Tampa, Florida, USA
Jun 2, 2008 Updated: Jun 5, 2008Bottle, courtesy Ughsmash I believe. Pours a dark brown color, with a thick cocoa-colored head, and a fair amount of lacing. Chocolate and raspberries in the nose, which means candy corn, too. Some gritty chalkiness, too. Roasted malt flavors, chocolate, coffee. Raspberry comes through big in the finish, which is unique. Caramel is in there somewhere. Balanced well, easy to drink and well-made, although nothing spectacular. Perhaps they weren’t aiming for that.
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