BrewDog Coffee Imperial Stout

Brewed by BrewDog
Style: Imperial Stout
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Bottle. Pours a dark brown beer with a small offwhite head. The aroma is cold coffee. The flavor follows the nose. The palate is sweet. Overall an average beer.

Bottle from cvarieuk. Thanks Craig! Bottle #2020. Brewed or bottled on 9/11/08, so it’s one year old now. Very dry, maybe from aging, or maybe it was made that way. Coffee stands out, almost like drinking straight coffee. Alcohol well hidden. Too dry and roasty for me. I prefer sweeter beers with more body.

Bottle from DK. Dark brown, small amount of tan head. Thick body, roasty malts, oak, very bitter up front and lingering finish. A bit too bitter overall for me.

Virtually no head. A touch of oak at the beginning, then the coffee kicks in. Very low carbonation in the mouth with very strong coffee flavors. The dry hopping seems to compete against the coffee - not a good concept - but loses out. The oak is very subtle in the mouth. Big bitter finish. Too much going on, in too many directions it just ends up lost. Not bad, but wouldn’t try again.

Bottle from Høkeren. Black w/ small tight latte head. Nose is sweetish, simple vanilla, little wood chip, surypy molasses, some sweetened coffee and BBQ notes. Flavor has lots of licorice, a bit acidic coffee, hint of smoke in the finish, quite stale and dull. Drier finish with minerals and ash. Medium bodied, low carbonation. I was expecting a lot bolder coffee from this.

My bottle [12oz] shared with HogTownHarry courtesy of madmitch76. Labelled "BrewDog Danish Beerhouse Coffee Imperial Stout". Pours a very dark ruby with an average size diminishing frothy tan head. Aroma’s mild, dry and roasty along with coffee and some green hops. Flavour of roasted malt, cold coffee, some hops and a roasty bitter finish. Medium bodied. Pretty good, I liked it.

A Mes rate. Bottle from BrewDog.
Firstly, a huge, very sarcastic thanks to whichever admin deleted Sim’s original rating of this beer when we had it on cask. We were the first to enter it under any guise, someone decided to just nuke the rate and rename the beer. Not at all impressed. Good work you may do most of the time, this was not one of them. Not the first time either...

Anyway, beer. Black brown body with a red hue when held to the light and an excellent tan head that lasts really well and leaves plenty of lace. Coffee (honest guvnah) lashings of chocolate, molasses, excellent dark maltiness and a slight but enjoyable hint of pig farm. That’s the aroma by the way. Erm, flavour... All of the same goodness but with a real sucker punch of hoppy bitterness. Rich chewy and big, yet really drinkable. When this first released, it’s true it was stuggling a little for body. It’s improved on that front dramatically. Just thick enough to be worthy of the impy moniker, just thin enough to be really downable. Alcohol is hardly detectable at all other than a slight hint in the finish. Excellent tobacco hint that comes and goes with the swiftness, leaving a cappuccino aftertaste that I really like. Good to begin with but improving all the time if you ask me. Thankfully the kind folks at BrewDog somehow ended up giving us a free case of this so I still have a few left. WIN!

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courtesy of ibrew2or3 pours dark brown, beige head. Aroma is light, some oak, roasted malts and coffee. Flavor, light coffee followed by some roasted malts, seemed a lot weaker than the indicated 9%, some smoke can be noted and hints of spices.