Bos Solar Eclipse Imperial Stout

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

Bottled. A pitch black beer with a thin brown head. The aroma has notes of alcohol, wood, and soy sauce. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, alcohol, roasted malt, and soy sauce, leading to a dry, roasted, woody, and alcoholic finish. Thanks CaptainCougar for coming to Denmark and sharing this.

Bottle 35,5 cl. Courtesy of CaptainCougar. Opaque black with a tiny, rough off-white head. Aroma of roasted malts and alcohol. Solid body, roasted malts - not overly burned - a little vanilla and a massive alcohol burn. More pure alcohol than Imperial Stout really. 300809

12 fl oz bottle, courtesy of CaptainCougar. Pours dark brown to black with a fully gone head. Aroma is solid alcohol and roasted dark malty. Roasted malt flavoured, dark and solid alcohol note. Dry and solid alcohol burn in the finish. Way too strong for my liking.

Name: Solar Eclispe Imperial Stout
Date: 04/27/2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Vintage: 2005

black, big fine beige head, sweet aroma with licorish and fruity notes, rich malt flavor, hot, nice sweetness, balanced, hints of dark bourbon character, a touch of a chalky character that turns into a bitter finish
-------- /> Name: Solar Eclispe Imperial Stout
Date: 07/09/2006
Mode: bottle

strong sweet bourbon and licorice aroma, huge alcoholic burning flavor, a touch of sweetness and bitter roastedness that is lost by the alcohol, all sweet alcoholic bourbon
-------- /> Name: Solar Eclispe Imperial Stout
Date: 06/21/2007
Mode: bottle
Vintage: 2004
Words: Tasting Pre-RBSG

still lots of alcohol, lots of roasted with dark fruits, big body, rich dark chocolate comes with warming,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.7/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: **4

Black with a tiny beige head. Sweet aroma with hard roasted malt, dark chocolate, espresso and liquerice. Sweet flavour with roasted malt, liquerice and loads of alcohol. Finished with loads of warming alcohol. The alcohol releay overpowered the stout here. But not bad.

12oz bottle shared by CaptainCougar. 2004 vintage. Poured a deeper black color with a small sized off whtie head. Aromas of roast, earthy, chocolate, and dark fruits. Tastes of caramel, chocolate, nuts, earthy, dark fruits, ashes, and coffee. Definitely some alcohol in the finish.

12oz bottle @Vero Beach Throwdown-pours no head and black color. Aroma is dark malt-licorice, dark fruit. Taste is acidic, dark malt-licorice, dark fruit. Alcohol. Minimum carbonation. Not my style. Thanks Hopscotch for sharing.

Pitch black, dark brown head. Heavily sweet, massive molasses nose. Mild sandy aspects from earthy hops try to balance is all, but the desserty oatmeal and biscuity cereals are just too strong to handle. Nutty palate, oily, tary and soy saucy. Heavy bitterness, I wonder how many IBUs this can be.. Extreme sweetness, long burning alcohol shot finish. I appreciate the efforts to create extraordinary beers, but so long that we’ll be left with oily lifeless uncarbonated palates and more artificial sweeteners than pure malt flavors, Bos won’t be up there with my favorite breweries. I am truly impressed by their head retentions considering their high alcohol levels though.. truly impressed.