Holy Mackerel Mack in Black

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

This beer is a nice black pour with a creamy mouthfeel, chocolatey flavor and has a nice tang of pomegranate in the finish. It was enjoyable.

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.

bottle, thanks to ericandersnavy, dark brown color with a decent tan head, aroma of vanilla extract and cocoa, flavors of dry cocoa, vanilla and coffee, very nice finish

Bottle from dchmela knocks off Florida for me. Nice dirty stout nose, roasty with some grit and burned char, only faint chocolate, light coffee, and side fruit (which we’ll go ahead and call pomegranate, though there’s some generic berry tartness). Noisy dark brown head on a pitch black pour. Lightly metallic and very sticky with not-so-subtle coffee acidity. Still nice and dry, light touch of mocha, light bitterness. Pomegranate stronger than expected, as if someone had just squeezed one into an otherwise normal stout. Roast overtones remain but the chocolate and its friends left the party long ago. Lightish body for an 8% stout. Appreciate the effort, especially the fruit pairing (I love blueberry and cherry stouts), but ends up being too syrupy and off-putting in feel.

opaque brown with a quickly dissipating reddish head. chocolate aroma with a faint pomegranate character and the tiniest hint of smoke. Thick feeling body with strong chocolate and smoke flavors with bits of pomegranate in there.

The aroma is fairly roasty with chocolate and dark fruit notes and you expect a fairly typical stout experience until you sip...the flavor offers what you expect with a slightly tart fruity twist. It also yields blueberries, chocolate, roasted malt and hints of coffee. It’s just different enough to not quite be your typical stout, but to still offer the things I like in a stout while adding an interesting and uncommon element. I like it.

Very dark beer with a head like a Coke. It poured a dark brown color and then very noisily fizzed away to nothing. Dark roasted grain nose with some chocolate and berry tones. I’m not sure what pomegranites smell like, but it could smell like them. Lots of roasted grains in the flavor with burnt sugar, overly sweetened coffee, semi-sweet chocolate, and a grape/sour cherry flavor that I assume is the pomegranite. It gets almost smokey/ashen as it warms. Very flavorful beer

2009. 12oz bottle. almost opaque black with no bubbles under a large fizzy brown head. sweet lactic chocolate aroma with sugared coffee. very nice creamy milky palate. flavors of roasted barley, milk chocolate, a hint of fruity pomegranite(hard cherry candy), and sugary lactose. creative and tasty.