Brew It Up! Czars Tar

Brewed by Brew It Up!
Style: Imperial Stout
Sacramento, California USA

Bottle thanks to bhensonb sampled on 7/26/09: Pours an opaque black with dark mahogany edges and a small ring of light tan bubbles. Sweet smoky dark caramel malty nose has a touch of tobacco and dark fruits. Starts with good fullness and sticky dark caramel and chocolate flavor before a drier roasty dark chocolate finish. A decent imperial stout with some smoky roasty complexity.

Dark brown, almost black, thin tan foamy ring. The nose is roasty and sweet, lots of coffee, and some dark fruit. Starts sweet with dark fruit, moves into some roast and coffee, and finshes earthy and dry with a good lingering hop bitterness as well. I enjoyed this one.

On tap. Pours black and opaque with a creamy light brown head. Hard roasted malt in the nose. Quite full-bodied, very hard roasted malt - almost coffee notes - but also an underlying sweetness. Very burned malt finish. 100709

From tap at the brewpub. Pours dark brown to black with a small tan head. Smooth dark and roasted malt aroma, vague breadish note. Sweet dark toffee malt flavoured. Light sweet and hardroasted malt finish. Roasted, light ashtray and mild bitter flavoured finish.

Mediocre imperial stout, pretty thin especially in the finish. Not terrible, but definitely nothing special.

(12oz bottle, thanks CaptainCougar) Small brown head atop black body with brown edges. Aroma is medium sweet, roast, some smoke/tar, dark chocolate. Taste is moderately sweet, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, some smoke, light alcohol. Sticky full body, some alcohol burn.

Name: Czar’s Tar Imperial Stout
Date: July 06, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: black, fine tan head, drippy lace
Aroma: sweet chocolate and roasted aroma
Flavor: sweet dark chocolate flavor, nice roasted brings in a coffee character, dark caramel adds richness, balancing bitterness follows the dark chocolate
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 14/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

Yeah!! Sampled on draught, It was like trying to take down a monster in my mouth, in every sip. I loved this one, wicked heavy. Colour was dark black with a large tan head. Semi sweet and very fulfilling taste.