BrewDog Riptide

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

330ml bottle, batch 123, best by 10/02/10, with thanks to Glouglouburp for the nice bonus! Pours dark brown with a minimal tan head. Aroma is mostly ripe dark fruits, with some caramel, chocolate and molasses. Flavor is also similar with dark fruits, caramel and a hint of chocolate. Alright, but not too exciting. Thanks again Dany!

cask Gallows Bird Espoo color:black bit airy head Scent:chocolate Taste.roasted malts, chocolate,full body but age is bit over. Tasted also RAF Gallows

Pours a dark brown with a soap sudsy tan head that sticks around for a while. Aroma is has a strong molasses note, chocolate malt, light dark roasted character, light citrus hops note and some sweet prune fruitiness. Flavor starts with a chocolate note, moves into a slight citrus bite, low bitter roasted malt bite and finishes with a smooth dark fruit note melded with some dark chocolate. Body is light but has a very creamy texture and the lacing coats the glass very heavily with a tan film. Overall a great brew with an overall smooth palate and a nicely hidden alcohol strength.

Intensely chocolatey nose. Pours slightly ruby black with a tan head. Flavour is rich and full of coffee and licorice with a long finish of cocoa underpinned with some peat and some vinousness.

Dark and opaque, beige head that sits as a thin film for the whole glass. Round chocolatey aromas with some sweetness like raisins. Has quite port-like characteristics, dark fruits and a rosy glow. Thick and smooth. Great warm and boozy aftertaste with a lovely sweetness and a light whiskey smokiness. A beer for good cheer.

12 oz. bottle. Pours almost black with ruby highlights and a very small, very light tan head. The head dissipates very quickly. This one has a roasted nose with light fruit undertones and a bit of coffee. Medium carbonation with a medium mouthfeel. Dry and bitter for sure. Overwhelmingly bitter. Roasted malt, a little caramel, mineral notes, and come coffee on the palate, but all of that is quickly washed away by an acridic bitterness that is like chewing on aspirin. A long, bitter finish. The overwhelming bitterness just ruins the enjoyment and surely makes this a beer I have no desire to return to.

Bottle. Opaque and coffee colored around the edges with an off white head. Outwardly subdued (that’s got to be an oxymoron) hop and chocolate profile. Roasty and quite smoky, cinnamon. Not your typical IS aroma. Belgian cocoa, nicely balanced. Flavor is more typical - chocolatey, hops more apparent, chalky and tannic finish. Good smoke, bitter finish. Beefy palate, but thin at the end. Big finish. I like it. It’s a slightly different angle.

Pours an unlively dark reddish-brown with no head or apparent carbonation. On second thought, there is a slight carbonation to the upper half, but that’s it. Aroma is of roasted sweet malt, not much else. Pretty straightforward. Again, all I’m getting is just a plain malt in the flavor, maybe just a barely-perceptible hoppiness toward the end, but that could just as easily be my wishful imagination as I search for more complexity or flavor here. Slight chocolate too, I suppose. The mouthfeel is watery and dead, especially for the style. This is my first BrewDog beer, and I was really expecting to be blown away, considering their good reputation here on RB. But I wasn’t. Overall, fair plus.