WinterCoat Cockney Imperial Stout

Brewed by WinterCoat
Style: Imperial Stout
Sabro, Denmark

Picked this bottle up in Denmark, Sept’ 08 Pours black with beige head, big roasted and burnt malts dominate the nose with just a slight element of sourness. Sweeter in the mouth than expected, but roasted malts again and some light smokiness, bit of coffee and liquorice.

500ml bottle (Fish and Beer)
Glassy jet black, brief head. Sweet dark fruits, including raspberry, in the aroma. Big fruit estery body. Sweet and aromatic. Anna says walnut. Goes down so easily for 8.4%.

Bottled (8% ABV). The body is blacka s coal with a medium sized and persistent and almost creamy brown head. Very nice appearence and so id the aroma that has a medium maltiness, with some roastiness and notes of coffee, chocolate and some berries and smoke. Complex nose, maybe slightly less powerful for the style, but far from weak.The flavour has a medium sweetness and you are hit by the roasted malts that are quite strong. Some smoke too and the usual notes of coffee, chocolate and licorice. Medium body and not much more, soft/average carbonation, medium/long finish with medium bitterness. Lightly alcoholic. Tasty and drinkable imperial stout.

Bottle. Black colour with medium creamy light brown mostly lasting head. Aroma is roasted malt. Sweet spicy flavor with notes of coffee.

Strong aroma, dark fruits mainly. after it warms up i also get coffee. dark brown, light brown head. flavor dark fruits, banana, coffee, some boose flavor that i disliked, but only when cold, was better when warmer. actually it does not taste entirely like a porter, more like an aged beer of some sort. or a mix. For an aged beer it is very very good.

Bottle: Deep red clear colour,flat head. Aroma of whisky,smokey,tar, some citric nose was there too. Flavor was surpricely smouth mouth feeling,medium body,thin to medium smokey/malty finish. nice

Draught@ Novare Res courtesy of Steve. Sweet and malty carmel and thick creamy mouthfeel. Sweet, really really sweet.

Nice with a truly english stout (i.e. only slightly carbonated, flat and malty)! Lack of carbonation gives way to a slowly building, sugar sweet alcoholic flavour that lingers for a long time. A bit bland smell, which improves along the way - but do I detect somewhat fleshy notes? Taste is caramel, cream, some liqourice and some smoke (though not too much) - all within the burned malt. All in all a nice and stouty beer, but not that outstanding.