Clipper City Heavy Seas Peg Leg

Brewed by Clipper City Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial Stout
Baltimore, Maryland USA

Pours black with a small creamy head. The nose is all roasted coffee and just a touch of chocolate. Follows through with tastes of molasses and Heath bar. Just enough hops to keep it balanced.

bottle. pours an opaque jet black with a relatively small tan head that takes its time fading, and leaves a nice lacing. lots of cocoa in the nose, with a tiny bit of roast, a few hints of hops, and maybe some dark fruit--raisins, perhaps. roasty flavor, with again more cocoa, some grapes, a bit of bready flavor, and some wood, as well as molasses taking up the rear. a sort of small sweetness combined with a very tiny bitterness that reminded me of bitter chocolate fill out the finish, along with a thick and chewy body, with a good silky mouthfeel and a fairly large amount of carbonation. i enjoyed this in much the same, cocoa-y, chocolate silk pie way that i enjoy siberian night. a tasty chocolaty stout.

Bottle. Pours dark brown with ruby edges, tan head, quickly disperses, has some lacing. Some chocolate and caramel in aroma, both fairly faint. Flavor is poorly blended, chocolate, caramel, little coffee, but a huge sweet rush in the middle kind of ruins it. Roasty finish with some hop bitterness detected. I don’t get it, I have had this beer before and it did not taste this bad. I wonder if the ones in the Heavy Seas mixed pack are bad, because the one I had from a sixer was a decent beer.

Pours a dark, black color with a nice tan head. Great roasted coffee aroma, lots of chocolate, too. As one would expect, a sweet, malty body, but just not much else going on. Caramel is present, some chocolate, little coffee, not an "in your face" Imperial Stout.

Bottle, #343 Black pour with nice head. Good roasted aroma with some hop in the back. Flavor follows, but is a bit salty. Overall a good imp stout.

Pours opaque black with no head or lacing. Smells malty, a little chocolate notes and some roast. Tastes of sweet malt, and basically how it smells but everything is very subtle. Medium in the mouth with decent carbonation. Very easy drinking but doesnt live up to the imperial stout billing.

12oz bottle notched Best before Nov ’07, thanks to artusory (Ryan) for the bottle. Poured a little thinner than I’d like a RIS to pour. Deep mahogany with a 1/2 finger beige head that faded to a ring and thin film a little too quickly. Extra salty soy, some pine, a decent amount of acidic roasted malts. Tangy raisins as it warms. Flavor has salty soy again and some vinous notes. I could pick up a bit on powdered sugared piny hops. Chalky roasty ash finish with bitterness peaking at a 2-3. Alcohol was masked well enough. Thin body with low carbonation. I think that Big Swede sucked, but I dunno which is worse. Salty and ashy are the bullet points here.

Pours a dark black that you can’t see through. Aroma is very roasty and matly. Its nice. Taste is roasty but quite thin. Some coffe notes in the finish with some roastyness. I can’t get over how watery this imperial stout is. Should be labeled a stout.