 scrizzz (1252), kirkland, Washington, USA
Jan 5, 2009 Thanks Secret Santa! Very coffee forward aroma, so much so that I cannot pick up anything else. Not that I’m complaining. Nearly black and a sandy medium dense head with good lacing. Again, coffee everywhere. Everywhere. I’d like to see how much caffeine is in this bottle. Very tasty essence of espresso and a welcomed balance of creamy viscosity though it’s not complex or all that different, just damn good for what it is.
DrBayern (1135), Morehead City, North Carolina, USA
Jan 5, 2009 12 oz. bottle. Black with a big rocky light brown head and some good lace. Teh dark roast coffee is all over the aroma, perhpas to the detrimetn of some of the other aromas which reced to the background. Full body, medium carbonation, and a thick, chewy palate. The coffe flavors dominate as the aroma would predict. Bitterness from dark roasted grain, the coffee, and I guess some hops in there somewhere. I love good coffee, but this just seemed a little too one dimensional to me. Still, it is a really good beer, but not great in my opinion.
pjweaver (133), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Jan 4, 2009 Snifter from bottle.
Pours a reddish black walnut. Sweet red fruit aroma, with coffee and espresso. Thick in the mouth, with flavors matching the aroma, smooth, chocolatey, and milky on the tongue. Great stout, very smooth.
DSG (1501), Tel Aviv, Israel
Jan 4, 2009 Bottle. Black-colored beer with a huge brown head, a bit bubbly. Aroma of roasted barley, coffee beans, some coffee liquor and light fruitiness. Bitter flavor with some sweet, slightly chocolatey, notes, lots of coffee and tobacco and a bit of alcohol. Thick body. A good Imperial Stout.
armando629 (956), Budapest, Hungary
Jan 4, 2009 What a beer again...Thanks MartinT! I am absolutely enthralled...The beer has a black body with a superb creamy brown head what was on the beer till the end... Unbelivable nose of coffee liquer, chocolate, vanilla and dark fruits, toffee. Fantastic smooth mouthfeel with a characteristic liqueric coffee taste, fine dark chocolate and caramel flavor. Coffee, dry aftertaste. Some nub sugar in my coffee, please! Fantastic, exciting one. Please, more!!!!
rwaters (27), Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Jan 4, 2009 pours black with a tan/chocolate head. very strong coffee, caramel and chocolate flavors. smells like roasted toffee/coffee.
clong83 (243), San Diego, California, USA
Jan 3, 2009 Pours a opaque brown/black with a nice dark head. Aroma of chocolate, coffee, and is sweet. Flavor is of a blend of caramel, chocolate, coffee, dried fruits, and is very sweet at first with a very bitter and pleasant clean and crisp finish. Excellent beer.
beerbill (1919), Laurel, New York, USA
Jan 2, 2009 11.5 oz. bottle. Pours black with a moderate chocolate brown head that faded to a film after the first two sips and left very little lace. The aroma is very unique with coffee being the obvious dominant trait, with notes of raisins, prunes, earth, and sake. Specifically, the sake aroma reminds me of a very earthy, cloudy brown Chinese sake my wife and I had bought in Chinatown years ago that came in a brown earthenware jar. The flavor is again dominated by the coffee, but without the fruitiness present in the aroma. An alcohol flavor emerges midway, and this grows quite a bit as the beer warms. Bitter coffee finish. Medium bodied, I’ll call it light for an impy stout. I enjoy coffee stouts, but there are a good many I’d reach for before having another of these, especially at $6.95 / bottle.
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