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Carolina Brewery Imperial Stout


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92
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An Imperial Stout brewed by
Carolina Brewery

Chapel Hill, North Carolina USA

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193.74/5.03.66/5.0-38.3 Snifter P  Stats

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A beer style made famous because of Catherine the Great’s visit to England where she enjoyed the local stouts. She had batches of stout shipped to the palace in St. Petersburg, but in the long voyage the beer spoiled. Catherine was not amused! So some industrious British brewers made a super stout with a higher alcohol level and lots of hops (a natural preservative) and lo and behold... Imperial Stout!

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 WeeHeavySD (1539), San Diego (Hillcrest), California, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/515/20

Apr 16, 2008  
Via trade with OldStyleCubFan, 12oz bottle, cool to see a cbc cap this week during CBC in San Diego. Pours black with a light brown head. Chocolaty and malty nose. Taste is sweet and chocolaty. Pretty good not bad.

 durhambeer (314), Durham, North Carolina, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/516/20
Apr 27, 2008  
Best I’ve had from the Carolina Brewery. On tap at WBF in Raleigh. Nice black pour with dark mocha head. Very roasty, but no burnt bitterness. Tons of coffee and chocolate and a creamy taste. Really quite good.


DicksMcGee (49), Winfield, Illinois, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/516/20
Apr 23, 2008  
Dark, smell of caramel and chocolate, taste sweet chocolate, coffee with a light feel. Thank you badbeer, and pepsican


 Frauditor (115), Hagerstown, Maryland, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/516/20
Feb 10, 2008  
bottle left at my house by Todd - thanks! Good all around stout. Poured very dark brown with a tight tan head. great lacing along the way. tastes were roasted malts, coffee grinds, and smoke. would like to try a few more of these real soon..


 AllAboutStout (402), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/103/515/20
Oct 3, 2007  
Pours a very dark brown with absolutely no head to speak of. Smell is coffee, roasted malts and some alcohol. Taste is much the same, but something is smoothing this thing out. I don’t know when this was bottled, but this one tastes a little aged. Still plenty of roastiness. Good beer, needs to come a little bigger than this though.




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