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Avery Mephistopheles Stout

Avery Mephistopheles Stout - Imperial Stout

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 Percentile 
99
overall
Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout

Boulder, Colorado USA

bottled
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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
8553.98/5.03.97/5.0Winter15.92%87.7Snifter
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Commercial Description:
Mephistopheles is the crafty shape shifter, the second fallen angel. Amazingly complex, coal black, velvety and liqueurish, this demon has a bouquet of vine-ripened grapes, anise and chocolate covered cherries with flavors of rum-soaked caramelized dark fruits and a double espresso finish. Mephistopheles is the final installment of "The Demons of Ale" series.

Batch 1 (Jan 2006): 15.1% ABV.
Batch 2 (Nov 2006): 16.03% ABV.
Batch 3 (Nov 2007): 16% ABV.
Batch 4 (Nov 2008): 15.92% ABV.
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 skortila (2875), Bunnik, Netherlands
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/102/514/20
May 31, 2009  
Bottled @ København Ølfestival 2009. Aroma has rasin, chocolate and is quite fruity. Black coloured beer with a beige head. The taste is sweet with a chocolate bitter finish. It is full of raisins and plums. Toffee there. It has a heavy alcoholic burn in the finish, which is not good. The beer has a lot of potential, only if the alcohol is not that much present.


 Anker (305), Hillerød, Denmark
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
May 30, 2009  
Bottle at CBF. Pours pitch black with a brown head. Aroma is liquorice, roasted malt, espresso and vanilla with weak notes of dark fruits and alcohol. There is lots of dark chocolate in the flavour but also espresso, liquorice, dark fruits and roasted malt. All ending in, at first a alcoholic, but then a liquorice and coffee bitter finish.


 DerWeg (748), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/103/516/20
May 25, 2009    Updated: May 26, 2009
A blackish countenance with incredible dark foam that gives an evil sizzle, then it is gone. I am drinking this at room temperature, so the alco is hot. Aroma raisin alcohol rich coffee. Flavor is whored-up USA Stout with plenty of dark malts, vanilla, dark pruney fruit (I like the ’brandied compote’ reference) coffee and so on. Aftertaste raisins hops and alcohol singing on the tongue. I am catching a buzz a little too quickly! I need a breather and will drink the second half chilled, but at first glance I say this is a) pretty good in the extravagant ’whored up’ USA stout fashion and b) not particularly unique or interesting in that regard, in the way Goose Island Bourbon County was amazing for its incomprehensible layers and reason to be so audacious. The alcohol is slightly ruinous of the palate. Still - I like this. Sorta. I’d buy it again maybe to regale friends, not to seek the puffy stout-y comfort I find in the Impys of Nøgne Ø, Péché Mortel and Black Albert, . -- later, more chilled - cooling it down brings up the hops and COCOA (yeah!) of this powerful beer, and makes it permeate the sinuses, Obviously better structure than room tempe, Despite the ludicrous alcohol this is a decent beer Bottle $7.25 at the excellent NEW BEER in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.


Edgekrusher (83), , Alabama, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/517/20
May 20, 2009  
Poured pitch black with a brown head. Raisin and dark fruit aroma. Very sweet. Creamy chocolate, roast malt and dark fruit. Rich and complex. Maybe a bit too sweet, but I love sweets.


 oldno7 (135), Spokane, Washington, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/57/104/517/20
May 19, 2009  
(2006 vintage) Pours black with a thin head. Aroma is very strong and inviting. Then you try it and WOW. The flavor is very powerful and complex, but not too overwelming for 16%. Has a lot of charactars such as caramel, toffee, malt, dark fruit, mollasses and oak. Extremely Good beer and worth the wait.


 soyorganic (217), Denver, Colorado, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/104/58/104/518/20
May 15, 2009  
Bottle, aroma is chocolate and what I thought to be dusty as well but it was very nice. Strong alcohol taste with cherry and chocolate notes complimented with roasted malts, dark sugar and a little bit of hops. This was very tasty.


 DuffManSW (283), Riverside, California, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
May 12, 2009  
Bottle from La Bodega...Pours black with a light brown lacing head..Smell is chocolate, coffee, smoke, oak, caramel and alot of booze... This one started off very harsh but I ended up really liking it as it warmed up.. There is alot of dark chocolate in the flavor along with some salty caramel going on..Nice alcohol burn with what seemed like alot of carbonation for an Imperial Stout but very good none the less.


 stobbe74 (655), Denmark
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/56/103/512/20
May 10, 2009  
Bottle, 12 fl. oz. Pours a pitch black beer with a chocolatebrown head. The aroma is roasted malt, coffee, chocolate and alcohol. The flavor is alcohol, coffee and chocolate. The palate is very sharp and somewhat overwhelming. Overall a good beer but a little faisty.



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