Jack of the Wood Green Man Imperial Stout

Brewed by Green Man Brewing (Jack of the Wood)
Style: Imperial Stout
Asheville, North Carolina USA

(On cask at the Green Man brewery). Appearance: Jet black body with a small, powdery, light tan head. Smell: Melted semi-sweet chocolate morsels with dark caramel, vanilla, a puff of smoke, and a restrained roastiness. Taste: Dark maltiness yielding flavors of rich semi-sweet chocolate, dark caramel, and vanilla. Light dusting of powdered sugar. Pleasant roastiness emerges along wtih a medium earthy roastiness. More chocolate and roast at the end for a mocha-like finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-full body. Mild carbonation. Drinkability: The non-cask version was quite good, but on cask it’s exquisite. If you can’t get down to the brewery to give it a try, then, I’m sorry, my friend.

On tap at Jack of the Wood. Black, with a thick brown head. Really pleasent aroma of coffee, charcoal and dark chocolate. Very full bodied and satisfying palate. Flavor is coffee at first, then a bit ashy and chalky, and some chocolate notes. Very tasty and satifying on a cold Saturday afternoon!

tap at brewery, they had this on cask as well, I had them give me a side by side, cask, and no cask. Subtle difference, cask was smoother fuller bodied, yet flatter. No cask was more carbonated and fluffy. Both poured the same and tasted the same, cask mostly affected the palate. pours a dark brown with mild caramel head. Hoppy presence in this stout, nice backgrounds of fruit and some smoke. good stuff by Jon Stuart to pump this out.

Draught at Jack of the Wood. Pours a dark mahogany black with small, dense tan head. The aroma is roasty with hints of caramel, mint, cola, and some ripe fruit. The flavor is hoppier than I expected, with a nice twang of earthy noble hops right off. Then there is some bitter chocolate, lots of nutty tones, and some roasty notes. It finishes dry and earthy with a slightly hoppy aftertaste. This one’s not too bad at all.

Draught. Pours black with mere rubies appearing in the body a whispy khaki head. The nose is heavily roasted with loads of bitter coffee, toasted oats, and sweet chocolate to boot. The mouthfeel is hefty and warming which compliments all the roasty flavors. The initial sip is sweet of chocolate, but quickly transitions to a lingering, smoky bite. This is very nice.

Date: 08/12/2005
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewery

black, good tan head, sweet roasted malt aroma, sweet malt flavor with a tart edge, strange sweet character in the flavor, maybe lactose, vanilla, diacyitl, nice roasted character leading into a light bitter finish,
-------- /> Date: 01/18/2008
Mode: cask
Source: brewery

black, thick and creamy tan head, lots of patterned lace, rich dark chocolate and roasted malt aroma with a touch of dark fruit, creamy velvet body, rich chocolate flavor, dark chocolate bitterness is balanced by a milk chocolate sweetness, nice plum character rises out of the sweetness, rating reflects cask version
-------- /> Date: 01/18/2008
Mode: draft
Source: brewery
Score: 3.5

black, fine tan head, streaks of drippy lace, dark chocolate aroma with a touch of dark caramel sweetness balanced by earthy hops, rich dark chocolate flavor with lots of roasted malt, touch of milk chocolate sweetness, hint of fruity character, as it warms the chocolate gets richer, bitter finish rises out of the dark chocolate, so much better blended and balanced on cask plus the body smooths out the rough edges,
-------- /> Date: 02/03/2008
Mode: cask
Source: brewery

a hint of alcohol comes through, touch of stylistic tartness,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 10/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 10/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 4.1/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **4