Holy Mackerel Mack in Black

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

Bottle pours black with thin tan head. Aroma is coffee, cherry, roasty, and sweetness. Has a heavy mouthfeel to it. Taste is rich, smooth coffee and chocolate, subtle fruit notes, and has a creamy finish to it. Overall I was pleasantly surprised by this beer. Its a very good beer and I think is highly overrated.

Nose is coffee and chocolate, black, small cappuccino head. Taste is a rich cocoa, and then fine coffee. Full bodied, balanced, bitter and oily. Terrific! Thank You Beershine and Oakes.

12oz bottle. Poured deep ruddy brown with almost zero head. The aroma picked up sour pomegranate and cherry pit notes upfront, giving a bright, funky twist to the style.. semi-sweet chocolate and a hint of copper behind (the latter may have been related to the fruit).. the interesting factor outweighed the I-was-kinda-feeling-a-traditional-deep-roasted-no- The flavor opened with tart pomegranate juice, then opened up to more roasty malt character than the nose (blend of sweet and darker chocolates, mild coffee bitterness, and a pinch of brown sugar).. the fruit juice outweighed the chocolate by a little on the back-end and through the finish.. bright overall feel to it. Medium-bodied and tangy on the palate with a sweet underlying impression.. a little tacky on the finish.. intriguing brew that isn’t in the same league as the better imperial stouts.

12oz bottle via trade with TURDFERGUSON, thanks Sam. Dark black pour, with a tan head. Nice aroma, dark roasty malts. Nice flavor, just a little thin though in the finish. Still, it’s a tasty brew.

Courtesy of Daknole. Pours black with a thin brown head. Smells sicky sweet, astringent and somewhat fruity. Tastes smokey, sweet, fruity and unlike i few of the other reviews i do taste the pomagranite which gives the beer red wine cabernet like taste oaky woody.

Thanks Santa. Black body, thin tan head. Nose is lots of rasty malt, some cocoa, an odd slightly plasticy (fruity) aspect. Flavor is sweet berry, lots of roast, a strange burnt aspect. Just odd from the pomegranate. Its overly bitter.. Strange stuff.

12oz bottle from Ibrew2or3...thanks dave! Dark in color, small head that faded quickly. Fruity aroma. Taste was pomegranete, kind of funky.... Not bad, I guess it is just different. It sitll has some roasted malt taste. Texture is a little thin for an impy stout. Nothing worth seeking out. Hats of to the brewers for trying something "outside the box".

Nice fruit in the aroma with a underlying stoutiness. Ripe, rich fruit up front in the flavor but falls into a muddy, peanuty grossness with a watery, milky finish. Blech. I like the fruit though.