 doubleo (834), San Diego, California, USA
Jan 8, 2008
Pours a nice chocolate brown with a crisp, thick, light brown head. Smells of toasty dark malts, chocolate, and coffee. A very mild stout in my opinion, but that’s a good thing to me. Tastes much like it smells, but mild, nice. Nice, not too thick, but thick enough. Good crisp carbonation that fades a little towards the end of the glass. One of my favorite stouts, more drinkable than most of your other average stouts, nice and mild but still 8.1%
Pawola22 (97), Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Oct 10, 2008 22oz bomber. Pours a lighter looking black with a runny/watery look to it. Big, dark brown, fizzy head that dissipates slowly leaving a lot of lacing on the glass. The aroma is very sweet, dominated by malts. Not too complex overall, with hints of nutty roastiness, chocolate, brown sugar, and orange/citrus. Smooth and medium body with lots of carbonation. Taste is initially slightly sweet and then quickly dries. Turns to a roasty, coffee, and chocolate middle. Finishes with a hint of citrus, very dry, and coffee bitter. Overall, I guess this is supposed to be a dry imperial stout, which it does a good job at portraying. Not quite as thick and rich as I like, but I do like the added bitterness this beer brings. Not bad.
Maverick34 (480), New York, USA
Oct 6, 2008 Pours black - tastes black. A bit on the mild side for an I Russian but pretty good nontheless.
larryLSB (17), La Selva Beach, California, USA
Oct 5, 2008 Bomber poured into a glass, big dark tan head. Aroma was sweet, maybe bittersweet chocolate, maybe molasses.
This brew goes down very smooth, and as the brewery says, can sneak up on you!. Overerall a great beer!
jjuf1853 (210), Land O Lakes, Florida, USA
Oct 1, 2008 Bottle pours a pure black color with a thick tan head. Aroma is bittersweet dark chocolate. Wondeful medley of flavors that include tobacco, roasted caramel malts, licorice, and dark roasted coffee. Nice amount of hop bitterness in the aftertaste. Quite nice!
jstraw (469), Oak Park, Illinois, USA
Oct 1, 2008 Bomber at Jerry’s. Black with decent, creamy brown head / Lighter, roast nose / Medium to full body, some chewiness, acidic to point of bitterness, with balance of malt and hops, and decent, bitter finish / Simpler flavors of dark roast coffee with notes of molasses and brown sugar / Surprisingly mediocre from BR.
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