Bear Republic Big Bear Black Stout

Pours a thick opaque black colour with a barely noticeable tan head. Aroma is sweet of roasted malts, caramel and toffee. Taste is creamy, rich and full of generously toasted bready flavors. Smooth all the way through and very filling.

22 oz bottle - Pours a fairly dark but not totally opaque black color with medium sized creamy tan head. Aroma is fairly roasty, with notes of light caramel, vanilla, cream. Flavor has fair amount of chewy malts, roastyness that comes across a bit chalky, hint of ash and vague herbal hops. Palate is very nice if just a touch overcarbonated for the style, which lends a bit of a rough bicarb bitterness in the finish that mingles with a subtle, balancing hop bitterness. Overall it’s very good, and definitely more drinkable than some imperial stouts, but it’s not quite at the level of many of the imperial stouts around from the better breweries.

Black pour, great aroma. Bursting with coffee, choco-dark fruit aroma. Flavor follows suit. Incredibly easy to drink. Usually after a bomber of an imperial stout leaves me craving something light. At the end of this one, I just wanted more. Great beer, wish more Bear Republic was available in Illinois.

Pours a thinner black with a bubbly fizzy beige head. Big roasty, smokey raisin and chocolate aroma with light notes of licorice. Medium/light bodied, fizzy carbonation, quite "off-style." Bitter deeply roasted malt flavor with lots of chocolate and a hint of raisins, big hop bite. Flavor is incongruent with the body. Very easy drinking due to the relatively lighter body, covers the alcohol very well for that fact as well. The carbonation settles down quite a bit after being poured for a few minutes, much better.

Poured to a dark beer with a lacy and big chocolate head. Aromas of roasted hops and malts. Initial flavor of bitter chocolate and malts, followed by bitter hoppiness. A very good stout.