Arcadia Imperial Stout

Brewed by Arcadia Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Battle Creek, Michigan USA

Appearance is a picture perfect pour of dark molasses brown settling to matte black with a waffer thin super dark brown cap, a cocoa dusting remains intact on top throughout the glass along with a fluffier collar; lacing is minimal. Aroma is faint of soft and dry bakers chocolate with some notes of coffee roast and a touch of alcoholic heat. Some vinous character grows as it warms but stays mostly sweet and chocolatey. Taste is robustly roasty with a black malt tangy edge dripped upon by some dry sweet chocolate powdering. Dry finish ensues with some coffee bean bitterness and burntness with a chocolatey touch which lingers well onto the’n palate. Feel is about medium with a smoother fullness upon some sips but has a certain intensity missing within its character that I can’t quite put my finger on, but it is quite good and quite drinkable. A fine example but lacking some depth and heft.

Pours as black as tar with a dense tan head that lingers throughout. Nose is full of roasted malt with a slight alcohol bite. Medium/full body with a slick oily palate. Dark roasted flavor with some chocolate and dark fruit. Good brew.

This is a pretty damn good imperial stout. It’s well made, it hides it’s abv, chocolate and dark fruit flavor, smooth mouthfeel, creamy, really it’s pretty damn good. If you like stout, you should like this one.

Bottle. Medium sized light brown head and fine-medium sized bubbles that mostly diminished. Carbonation, opaque and near black hue. Malty, roasty, coffee and some vinuous notes. Malty, coffee and vinuous flavor. Smooth and somewhat thin mouthfeel. Full bodied. Fair lacing. Recommended.

Dark, near-black body, with a full, lush, very fizzy head, toasty-brown, and effervescent. Aroma, dark, with notes of anise and pepper right off, maple, treacle, motor oil and more, as we drink it in...molasses and tar...quite an accomplishment, already! Taste: thick coating on the palate, dark, but bubbly, rich, and roasted, but ultimately thinnish compared to others that I like.Loaded with taste, but not enough to match the robust royalty among this style. A bit underwhelming. Chocolatey, too, a touch, and it’s good, but not as good as we’d like.

full dark tan head atop burnt brown...acidic chocolate, raisin, port, & faint vanilla with an essence of alcohol...Roasty, coffee-ish flavors, not exactly imperial thick though, but a oily mouthfeel..heated alcohol, some subtle vanilla, still a bit thin for my tastes.

This stout pours with a black body topped by a thick brown head with lots of lacing. The aroma is sweet yet slightly bitter and malty with notes of licorice and a nice roasted coffee note. The flavor is slightly sweet but mostly bitter, roasty, malty and slightly smokey with nice chocolate and coffee notes, as well as, plenty of licorice. Full bodied, although a little thin for an Imperial, and smooth.

(Bottle) Pours a medium, frothy, brown head and an opaque body. Large white chunks cover the bottom of the snifter. Strong nose of dark rum, wood barrel, roast coffee and bitter cocoa. Thin texture yet a multi-layed flavour: bitter chocolate, raspberries with good alcohol presence. This is a very fine Imperial Stout. Thanks to Raindog for making it available to me!