Highland Imperial Black Mocha Stout

Formerly brewed at Highland Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Asheville, North Carolina USA

2008 Bottle from oobawa. Pours a milk chocolate brown with a smaller tan head. Nose is strong with chocolate mocha and prune. The prune dark fruit nose stay for most of the drink. Flavors of smoky malt followed by rich roasted malt flavors with a good chocolate note. Latter hints of burnt coffee, and a nice prune dark dried fruit tone. Very nicely flavored considering they didn’t add any stimulus flavoring to the brew. Mouth is very full and chewy. A little warm. Great RIS here. Has an aged taste early.

Trade from Ross. Thanks man. It’s about damn time this freakin’ brewery impressed me. Any pours a deep brown color with thin off white head. Intense aroma of chocolate, roasted malt, licorice and coffee. Taste is milk chocolate, dark fruit, anise, roasted coffee and some mild spice in the finish. Overall, this is a very balanced well thought out beer. Alcohol is barely noticeable and this beer is creamy and delicious. Great stuff.

Pours black with a thin off-white ring. Aroma is anise, alcohol, some licorice, dark roasts, and a hint of chocolate. Taste is earthy, with some caramel undertones; chocolate syrup. Not bad.

22 ounce bottle. Pours oily black with some brown head. The nose displays lots of roasted character, some dark chocolate, and robust coffee character. There also seems to be a bit of an earthy hop note. The flavor comes off pretty roasted as well with a couple tablespoons of Hershey’s syrup stirred in. Finishes with mild hop bitterness. A bit thin, with some slickness. Balanced finish. Overall, I think this is just a touch above average.

Date: February 07, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Footset Foreplay Friday
Appearance: black, creamy tan head, layers of lace
Aroma: roasted malt aroma, dark caramel sweetness brings out the chocolate
Body: creamy body
Flavor: rich chocolate flavor, dry powder character, touch of roasted brings in a growing bitterness

Date: July 11, 2009
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting
Score: 2.9 to 3.4
Aroma: picking up a nice dark fruity chatacter in the aroma along with sweet caramel
Flavor: picking up more roasted flavor, still the dry chocolate, lots of earthyness and roasted follows the roast

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.4/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: **+/4

Bottle courtesy of tpd975. Pours a dark brown to black color with thin tan head. Aroma is roasted and malty with notes of chocolate, ripe dark fruit, some phenol, figs, molasses, raisins, some hints of coffee. Flavor is roasted and malty with notes of ripe dark fruit, molasses, figs, raisins, dark chocolate and hints of coffee. Generally medium body with a pleasing malty finish.

This poured a dark brown to black with a nice chocolate and coffee aroma and flavor and had hints of a smoky finish in it but a little bitterness to it overall not a bad IPS.CHEERS!

Pours a dark dark brown with a good size head. Aroma of chocolate, coffee, dark fruit a bit. Nice flavor. Thanks Ross