Holy Mackerel Mack in Black

Brewed by Florida Beer Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Melbourne, Florida USA

2008 bottle. Deep brown color with a tan head. Big dark pit fruit aromas plum, prune juice, tobacco with some vanilla. Smooth medium body. Good dark pit fruit flavors again of plum dark raisons black licorice spice with some drying dark malts to finish. Cloying watered down cough syrup taste to finish. Thanks Juice for this bottle.

12 oz. Bottle. I was not a fan of this beer. Smelled sour upon pouring and this carried over into the flavor. It did pour a nice color, but that was the best thing about it. I will have to try it again in the future.

Bottle from Total Wine. A nice discovery, as this pours raven black with a frothy, tan rim. The nose is rich and roasty with notes of burn caramel and coffee. Flavors are equally dark and roasty: fired nuts, chocolate, coffee beans, dark fruits, subtle sour yeast in the front and subtle piney hops in the finish. Well balanced palate. Medium carbonation and full body. Great stout.

Bottle courtesy of bleeng. Dark red pour. Smells of nice heavy malt chocolate stout. Flavor compliments this well. Tasty.

thanks to daknole for the hookup! pours black with minimal head. the nose actually has a detectable hint of sweet pomegranate, as well as some light smokey and burnt notes. taste and body are almost like soda on first impact, fairly sweet and a strange type of small carbonation. again, the po is present, maybe a lil too much as it’s a pretty sweet brew. but also unique, and still darn good.

12oz bottle thanks to HOPSHUNTER. Pours a dark brownish black color with a foamy chocolate head. Nose is roasty malts and milk chocolate with a light hint of fruityness. Palate is full and foamy with a light bitterness. Flavors are light fruit and milk chocolates and a nice dark roasted malt.

I believe I have jcwattsrugger to thank for this one, so thanks! Pours black, slight head. Big chocolate and roast aroma. Flavor matches, with a fruity finish, presumably from the pomegranate and Belgian yeast strain. A bit acrid - probably the acidity from all the roasted malts forming an unholy union with the tartness of the fruit. Odd, but not bad. Tone down the acidity and this could be pretty nice.

THOUGHTS: My first Florida beer. This was perhaps the worst imperial stout I had too this point. It was still a decent beer, but a lousy impy stout. It seemed more like a fruity stout or schwarzbier. This actually reminded me a lot of a schwarzbier the first day I tried it. A day or two later I had another one and thought it was more roasty and impy stout-like. This one was also a little warmer, so maybe that was it. Had to score this one low for being a bad example of the style. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a dark brown that was an opaque black in the glass with nearly no head. The little tat was there was light brown. The aroma was heavy roasted malt and coffee and pomegranate. The blending of the malt and fruit was a little off-putting. The initial flavor was sweet, acidic and bitter; while the finish was sweet acidic and bitter with a fairly long duration. There was coffee, roasted malt, pomegranate and not much else. The medium (very thin for the style) body was syrupy and then a little dry with fizzy carbonation and a dry and lightly astringent finish.