Bos Solar Eclipse Imperial Stout

Formerly brewed at Bos Brewery and Bistro
Style: Imperial Stout
Pontiac, Michigan USA

Draft sample at MBGF. Black color with a moderate frothy brown head that diminished slowly with good lacing. Moderate sweet roasted coffee malt aroma. Medium to full body. Heavy complex bourbon roasted malt flavor with a medium sweet roasted malt finish of long duration. Much better than my expectations.

Draught at 2006 MBG Summer Festival. Pours a very dark brown/black with an average size diminishing creamy tan head. Awesome sweet aroma of dark malt, dark fruit, molasses, coffee, oak, hops and more -- smells fantastic. I didn’t think the flavour could live up to that aroma and to my pleasant surprise it did! Sweet malty flavour follows the aroma and is incredibly easy to drink for such a strong beer (hell, it’s easy to drink for a 9% beer!). Medium to full bodied. What a great Impy Stout, I absolutely loved it and it was my favourite beer of the day.

Draught sample at MBG 2006 Summer Festival. Pitch black with a tan head - more head than I expected from a (supposedly) 22.5% beer. Aroma is luscious - sweet and smoky, coffee with cream, molasses, vanilla - yum! Flavour is really nice as well - roasted coffee & nuts, bourbon, wood, sweet malt. Like my compatriots, I find it hard to believe that it’s as strong as they claim, but it’s it’s even half that, it still hides the booze really, really well. This is just fantastic!

Draught. At 2006 Michigan Brewers’ Guild Festival. * Rating #1500 in less than 14 months on Ratebeer, and one of the highlights of the festival for me * Deep impenetrable brown-black with a decent creamy dark brown head. Deep, rich, creamy roasty aroma - malt, coffee, chocolate, sweet table cream, alcohol, bitter hops, oak - just lovely. Taste - alcohol, bitter woody, leafy hops - and tons and tons of roast, ending in a long, lingering dark roast finish. Beautifful oily, complex mouthfeel, thick, alcoholic, bitter, nicely carbonated - good lord, this is one of the best impy stouts I’ve had - 3.64 score? WTF?!!! - and while this is strong and definitely high ABV, no way it’s 22% - maybe 12. Maybe.

Michigan Brewers Festival 2006. Black body with a nice long lasting chocolate coloured head. Lightly boozey aroma, with a sweet dark malt. Alcohol is surprisingly restrained in a pleasantly sweet malt flavour, very light subtle threads of chocolate and roast. Medium to full bodied palate. Very nice. I have my doubts about the abv claims (20.5% according to the sign) but if it is anywhere close to that it is ridiculously well hidden. Very nice beer, probably my highest rated of the fest. 8/4/8-9/4/17-18

On tap at the brewpub on 4/27/06, 2005 vintage: Pours a viscous opaque black with a dense dark tan head. Very sweet, caramely, big dark fruity complex dark chocolate and alcoholic aroma. Body starts with a viscous full-bodied sweet dark caramel maltiness, some molasses, raisins and plums with a very warming finish. Good complexity throughout and should age very well. This is a malty alcohol monster to be enjoyed in moderation.

Thanks to kp? for bringing this one to the tasting. The pour produces a small off-white head that quickly diminishes to a frothy ring. Heavy malt aroma that also includes some licorice, vanilla and alcohol. Rich complex flavor with a slightly acid finish.

This beer is darker than when they turn the lights out at the lost sea. Almost no head. Nice aroma of alochol, chocolate, and malt and alcohol again. A big smooth beer that i really liked. Enjoyed again at the VBTD the score changed one point -.1