Eel River Ravens Eye Imperial Stout

Brewed by Eel River Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Fortuna, California USA

22oz. Bottle: Aroma of chocolate, roasted malts, alcohol, soy sauce, and mocha. Poured black in color with a medium-sized, dense, light brown head that lasted throughout. Clear. Lightly sparkling. Lightly sweet flavor. Tastes of chocolate, malts, roasting, mocha, burnt malts, alcohol, and coffee. Medium to full body. Thick, creamy, then chalky texture. Average carbonation. Burnt malt finish.

22oz bottle. Not very impressed with this brew. Pours a deep, mostly hazed brown. Head was foamy and light beige in color, not much lacing. Pretty much your standard stout nose and flavor.....chocolate, coffee, and some dark fruits, very faint. Not the worst, not the best.

22 oz. bottle. Pours black with a moderate light brown head that completely disappeared after the first sip. Pleasant aroma of roasted malt and chocolate with lots of alcohol vapors. The flavor is again roasted malt with chocolate, which is then washed over with a strong alcohol flavor. There is plenty of heat from the alcohol, which lingers well beyond the swallow. A decent impy stout, but there are a good many others I would have again over this one.

Man, this is one boring imperial stout - looks like a glass of cola - some light herbal character in the aroma, with very faint roastiness, but you’ve got to inhale deeply to pick anything up - soft mouthfeel, thin-bodied (for the style) - bittersweet flavor reminiscent of nothing in particular, with notes of corn syrup, toffee, coffee - fairly well-masked alcohol, but it still burns a bit in the finish - lacking character in pretty much every respect - a highly forgettable brew.

Bottle: Black, tan head and nice lacing. Nose of nag champa, bright roast and alcohol, some coffee. Nice mellow caramel and light cocoa character. Clean and balanced. Good!

22 oz bottle from Liquor Outlet. Black in color with a light brown head. Aroma is not too strong, roasted malt, light coffee. Taste is roast, light chocolate, moderately sweet with toffee, with a rather thin body for the style. Some alcohol warm in the finish.

Black with a decent brown head. Faint aroma of roasty malt. Flavor of roasted mals,caramel, coffee with a rather thin body. Not bad...so,so.

Bottle: Jet black with a brown head. Deep choco aromas with a strong coffee flavor. It has a thin feel almost like a porter with a sweet chocolaty aftertaste. Thanks Jake65!