 BBB63 (3676), La Porte, Indiana, USA
Apr 22, 2008
Bottle and served in my Expedition snifter (along side of the 5 & 8): Very dark with some ruby highlights and the best head of the three with a good creamy lace upon the glassware. The aroma is massive iodine, peat bog, smoke, and earthy elements along with some caramel and chocolate, raisin, coffee, molasses, and old wet wood. The taste again features the scotch character but I found this one a bit more overwhelming and seems to masks the stout malt flavor a tad too much for its own good. The finish is medicinal and ashy with only a touch of Crème Brule. The mouth feel is aggressive and sprite with an acidic finish. While I do like some aspects of this brew even the scotch drinker in me found it hard to finish the whole bottle. Perhaps aging will mellow this out a tad more. (My 200 rated Imperial Stout, heck yeah!)
bhensonb (2713), Woodland, California, USA
Jul 16, 2008 Bottle from Ledgers. Edition 009/BB 22/03/09. Near opaque black color with ruby clarity at the edges. Head was ephemeral. Really strong aroma of oily dark roasted malt. Not burnt/’toasted. Just really dark. Full bodied with creamy carbonation. The flavor is like burnt oak, phenolics, burnt malt, and those are the weak points. It seems that "liquid smoke" has been introduced. This stuff could clean weld sputter. It’s very smooth, and the strongly harsh characteristics quickly lull the senses. Suddenly a little heat can be noticed. It all tends to tone down in the finish, but it is still the strongest ale statement I can recall. Comparison: This is espresso, and all other is decaf. It is just amazing what man can do with malt and yeast. Postscript: Imperial stout? This is a whole new category.
thewolf (3392), Kolding, Denmark
Jul 14, 2008 Bottle. [thank you, cgarvieuk]
Pours motot oil black with a big, creamy cappucino head. Light lacing and fine duration. Aroma is powerful, peity, oak and whiskey with some roasted malts behind it. Quite high carbonation, perhaps a bit light for 10 %. Flavour is a bit sharp, lots of peity notes, vinious. Grassy and peity finish that stays for quite some time. Again, the Islay really isn’t me.
michael-pollack (1310), King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
Jul 10, 2008 330ml Bottle: Aroma of whiskey, burnt malts, smoke, peat, and a little chocolate. Poured black in color with a small, creamy, rocky, dark tan head that lasted throughout. Opaque. Good to very good lacing. Lightly sweet flavor. Tastes of whiskey, peat, smoke, wood, alcohol, and a little chocolate. Medium body. Oily, slightly dry texture. Soft carbonation. Smokey, peat, and whiskey finish.
Ibrew2or3 (1596), Safety Harbor, Florida, USA
Jul 6, 2008 Courtesy of footbalm. Pours dark darkness with brown edges and lasting tan head. It has a big aroma of roasty toasty fire charred oakiness with tasty earthy and peaty notes. Yum. The taste has a woody charred smokiness that is up front and in the face. I get some malty sweetness and vanilla underneath trying to cover up a big earthy and peatiness. Lots and lots of bold flavors here. Very nice.
Bov (4558), Bienne, Switzerland
Jul 4, 2008 courtesy of Per Forsgren - black coloured with very little foam left; peated whisky nose with some note sof chocolate and licorice; thick and full-bodied, strong sweetness followed by a robust bitterness; very long smokey whisky-like aftertaste with notes of smoked bacon
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