Eel River Ravens Eye Imperial Stout

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

650 ml. Deep ebony with a medium-sized creamy head that hangs. Aroma is chocolate and marshmallow creme, toned down nicely by some peppery coffee and charred wood. Vanilla cream soda on the front turns to some dried wood, hickory smoke, coffee, slight cumin, and some piquant acetic acidity. Sweet and char aftertaste is great. Medium-heavy, creamy body has a tingly dry finish. Very nice dessert.

Pours a rich oily black with a thin oragne head. Aroma is lots of roasted barley chocoalte and coffee with some anise and tar. More tar and harsh oily black malts in the flavor with more roast hints of smoke and burnt malts- harsh acrid black malt finish- tacky as well. A bit fusely and harsh. Not as good as expected.

Pours dark brown/black, with a light brown head. Aroma is roasted malt, coffee, chocolate, fruit, and alcohol. Flavor is chocolate, roasted malt, and coffee. Medium body, ends slighly dry.

22 oz bottle from Logan’s Pre-GABF party. Lots of dark brown head on this dark pour. Some roasty flavors, touches of coffee. Just Okay

Black colour with a light brown head. Malty, light roasted aroma with fruity, vanilla and alcohol sweet notes. Light roasted and chocolate sweet flavor. Alcohol sweet and light coffee bitter finish.

Sampled during Manhattan Blind IS Tasting: Found to eb bitter, light in body with no head. Light roast and not complex.

bottle. it has a black color with a small head. the aroma is slight roasty. there is some carbonation present. it is nice and roasty.

Esspresso, jerusalem almonds and cocoa nose. Brown sugar and big roasted cocoa notes are very predominate on the palate. Big rich mouthfeel with some mild astringency. Lingering roasted finish.