 BeerRules (237), Houston, Texas, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Aug 10, 2005 Updated: Aug 11, 2005Sweet cookie like aroma. Lots and chocolate and wine in there as well, nice. Taste is really not that sweet compared to the other imperials ive had. Nice syrupy coffee flavor. Lightly bitter. Pretty good.
muzzlehatch (4427), Burlington, Vermont, USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Aug 7, 2005 22 oz bottle. Dark garnet/purple body, translucent, with a touch of lasting near-white head...elegant chocolate-port-coffee liqueur aroma, enticing and sweet...flavor follows aroma almost to the letter, moderately sweet and lightly acidic with some dark vinous qualities competing with chocolaty oiliness...body rather thin for an Impy, really this seems like a beefed-up, winey sweet stout...alcohol not noticeable really. Pleasant, a good Imperial for a hot summer day, but not terribly bold or distinctive.
fly (1332), austin, Tejas, USA
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Aug 4, 2005 Okay, but just not a heaping helping more. Not unpleasant. Expect more from an imperial stout and felt that after having tried to bombers by myself that I have a fair handle on this. Hard to get at what it is that I find lacking as I do generally tend to enjoy some subdued qualities - or just not having a stout taste like charcoal or a bag of chocolate or licorice or any other overly dominate character. Very creamy. So I guess in the long run I like it, but wish that just a teensy bit of tweaking would be done to add just a bit more.
grant (792), Long Beach, CA/Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Jul 19, 2005 What? I know i’ve rated this....I was just checking to see what I wrote about it. Oh well. Deep brown with foamy, transient head. Aroma has slight cherry and BIG malted milk flavor garnished with milk chocolate--good thing I love Whoppers. Sweetish, charred body with some port-like aspects. Finishes moderately sweet with surprisingly little bitterness. As, i remembered, this is less an Imperial Stout than a big sweet stout. It’s a good drinker, but not the snifter and cigar affair that many other impys are. I would take their Cappucino Stout in a heartbeat over this.
pootzboy (1048), Hawgville, Ontario, Canada
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Jul 11, 2005 Light defying black in the glass, nice mocha cap, modest carbonation. Nice looking Impie so far. Nose is subdued, not as face smashing as most imps but the standard aromas are there figs, coffee, sweet treacle. Nice mix of malts you get lots of burnt toffee, molassass, cocoa, dried fruits and charred toast here...hops are trimmed back but that’s OK...long malty finish of sweet date cake and metal tinniness...very nice...this is a drinkable imperial...very drinkable...in fact dangerously drinkable!
jimhilt (1687), Bow, New Hampshire, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Jul 8, 2005 Pours with a two-finger light brown head that fades slowly but doesn’t leave much lace. Deep mahogeny color. Light-medium carbonation and heavy bodied. Nose is chocolate but not strong. Starts sweet, malts are up front, finish is a roasted coffee. $5.45 for a 22 oz bottle from Colonial Spirits Acton, Ma
pineypower (1102), Pine Barrens, New Jersey, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Jul 7, 2005 Poured out a nice deep black with a small slowly forming whispy head. The aroma is mainly of roasted malts and some chocolate. The taste is not overlly complex for an imperial stout, had notes of chocolate, cherries and roasted malts, but lacked a true character, not a terrible beer, but I wouldn’t chase out of my way to drink it again
DrunkenWeasel (218), Portland, Oregon, USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 2/5 | 15/20 |
Jun 30, 2005 Pours black with a thin white head. Smells of cherries alcohol and chocolate. Strong chocolate taste but nothing much else there. Incredibly short lived and bland aftertaste. OK beer though.
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