Flying Fish Imperial Espresso Porter

Brewed by Flying Fish Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Strong Porter
Cherry Hill, New Jersey USA

Poured from bottle. Get that coffee aroma, some burnt caramel in there too. Flavor is exquisite - coffee, cocoa, vanilla, alcohol and hops. Creamy feel, like a milk stout. VERY drinkable. Even better as it warmed. Creme de cacao notes. Like a fine dessert. Simply outstanding!

THOUGHTS: I’m not a big Flying Fish fan, but this was great. Nay, incredible. This is the beer equivalent of coffee. It smells like coffee, tastes like coffee and looks like coffee; although I’ve never held coffee upt to a light while in a lear drinking vessle to see if it has red highlights. The flavor is great but a little one sided. It just got better as it warmed. I figured this would be pretty good from what I had read about the beer, but I wasn’t expecting anything this great. Almost more like a stout than a porter. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a dark brown that looked black in the glass with red highlights and a small to average tan head that mostly diminished and left virtually no lacing. The aroma was of dark chocoate, strong coffee and rasted malt. The initial flavor was moderate sweetness and lightly bitter, while the finish was moderately to heavily sweet and moderately bitter with an average duration. The body was medium to full and syrupy and just a little dry with lively carbonation.

4-pack from Total Wine, River Edge, NJ...bottle pours black with a tan head...rich aroma of coffee bean and semi-sweet dark chocolate...flavor is much of the same with roasted malts and a mild bitterness...I was expecting more of pronounced coffee flavor but it was well balanced...really tasty, good sipper.

12 oz bottle-Poured almost cola looking,with a tall,quickly dissappearing beige head.Aromas were heavy coffee,malt and chocolate.Taste was also coffee and malt with a medium body.Delicious Brew.

Bottle from Capone’s. Onxy pour with minimal tan head. Aroma of big roasty malt, molasses, figgy fruit, some rauchy notes. Tastes rich and roasty dark malty, with figs, some bourbon hints, and some chocoff notes. Rich, complex palate.

Bottle. Poured a dark brown color with a medium light-brown head. Aroma consists of coffee, caramel, toffee, and chocolate. Mouthfeel is full and pleasant. Flavor is mostly dark chocolate with a coffee hint to it. Finish is vanilla and very sweet. An impressive porter. Thanks to Eaglefan538 for the bottle.

Pour was a dark dark brown color with nice off colored head. Aroma was of coffee and cocoa. Floave was good coffee, and chocolate some bitterness either from the coffee or hop. Mouthfeel was outstanding smooth. Solid beer.

Chocolate, sweet syrup and yes, burnt coffee mixes with brown sugar to form quite a punch... fierce blackness with a creamy brown head; a slant of light appears only when held to a lamp... medium- to heavy-bodied, with initial heat on the throat and a soft buzz to the teeth (8.2% ABV) that blunts as the glass drains... robust, full-on coffee and chocolate flavor... softer secondary hints of liccorice and caramel add a nice, complex finish... a bit slick and oily in spots, this Fish maintains its intent--a porter that doubles as a warmer coffee features... mellow enough to enjoy straight-up, weighty enough ti warm and move with just one bottle...a tenth anniversary celebration indeed....