Eel River Ravens Eye Imperial Stout

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

bottle thanks to my brother. black with a cream head. nose is chocolate, coffee and roasted malts. not bad on teh palate at all, flavor is bitter sweet dark chocolate and light roasted coffee.

22 oz bottle from Market of Choice. Pours black as motor oil with a fluffy tan head. Aroma of chocolate, coffee, maybe some light licorice. Big, smooth chocolate and coffee flavor with a nice roasty hint to it and a very smooth finish. Perhaps slightly too smooth, but that would be my only complaint with this tasty brew. Would have again.

500ml bottle scooped up in Milwaukee. Opaque black, maybe a hint of brown. Big rusty beige head. Solid chocolate aroma, like hot cocoa with a touch of hoppy astringency. Damn, this beer is quite nice and mellow for the ABV. Silky, creamy mouthfeel. There is some hoppy bitterness up front, but fades into a sweet chocolate finish. You get hints of the high alcohol every so often, but overall quite nice and dangerously sessionable. Well done.

Birthday Bottle, thanks Jamie! Pours an almost solid black beer with a decent tan creamy head. Aroma is caramel, malt and chocolate. Flavor is roasty with a thick body, notes of chocolate and roast. A little bit of hop backround and the alcohol is well hidden. I Like

22 oz. bottle. Deep ruby/brown that clearly lets light through, produces a large, light yellowish tan head. Lots of caramel in the aroma with lesser contributions of chocolate and some burned sugar. Smooth, medium body, gently carbonated, a little thin on the palate for the style, some light astringency. Flavor echoes the aroma with substantial caramel sweetness up front. Some peppery bite comes through at the finish, but is not at all assertive. This beer was pleasant enough, but didn’t have the oomph behind it that I expect from an impy stout.

Bottle thanks to TURDFERGUSON. Pours jet black with a creamy light tan head. Smells nicely of milk chocolate and maybe a splash of coffee. Interesting flavors of molasses, brown sugar, milk chocolate, and damn little coffee....maybe some dirt. Very smooth palate edging on creamy. A bit syrupy, but not much alcohol noticed here. Pretty decent,better than I anticipated.

Bottle with thanks to coyotehunter. Body is a somewhat thin dark brown with little head. Aromas are a decent mix of roasted malt, coffee and chocolate. Flavor is OK, but kind of thin... a lot of chocolate and scorched malt with a little bit of peat.

Pours with a dark brown hue, that sits below a light brown head that is nice and fluffy, but is mostly diminishing. Aroma has roast, coffee, chocolate, and molasses in it. Flavor is excellent. I am not a big fan of stouts but this one agreed well with me. Coffee in the beginning, with some sweetness and roastiness in the middle, followed by a bitter chocolate ending - hersheys dark chocolate. Syrupy texture with light carbonation.