Laughing Dog The Dogfather Imperial Stout

Brewed by Laughing Dog Brewing
Style: Imperial Stout
Ponderay, Idaho USA

22oz bomber from grape & gourmet. pours a oily, black with a half-inch, dark brown head and solid lacing. aroma is great with big notes of dark chocolate, roasted malts, and coffee with dark fruit notes of prune and blackberry and hints of chocolate covered banana, vanilla, and earthy wood. flavor is wonderful as well big, dark, roasted coffee and dark malt notes up front with bittersweet chocolate, caramel, dark fruits, and molasses adding complexity and finishing with earthy hops and smoked wood. palate is full bodied, smooth, and lightly carbonated with just a touch of alcohol making this an easy sipper. overall, a top notch brew.

Malt aroma with a slight amount of wood. Black color with a very small brown head. Bitter beginning that mellows in the finish.

Bomber. First if all, my apologies to the hotel management for the imperial stout spray on the walls from when I opened this. It shot all over the place due to a bad angle selection on my part. I did my honest beat cleaning it up, but I’d imagine the discerning eye will still be able to notice my presence. Anyhow, pours a nice dark brown, thick bodied with a decent head and dark and full aromas of cocoa and fruit. Flavor is a complex mix of bourbony booze, chocolate, peat and prunes. It’s a nice and thick mouthfeel with a bit of wamth and a fairly pronounced dark fruit presence in the aftertaste. This is good stuff.

Bottle. Pours black with a two finger fluffy brown head. Aroma of dark malts, chocolate, coffee and dark fruit. Flavor was sweet dark malts, dark chocolate, black coffee and some light molasses with a smooth creamy mouthfeel and had a dry finish.

Bottle. Black pour with a medium brown colored head. Starts to fade quickly. Aroma is light licorice, roasted malts, dark fruit, dark chocolate and soft alcohol. Also some citrus buried in there. Taste is dark chocolate, dark fruits, citrus, licorice, coffee, roasted malts, vanilla and alcohol. Body is medium with some chalkiness. the carbonation light to light-medium and prickly. Ends with more licorice, earthy notes, roasted malts, coffee, alcohol, dakr chocolate and citrus fruit.

Nice jet black pour, small brownish head. Sweet roasty malt smell. Bitter/sweet taste with only a touch of alcohol "pop" on the tongue at the end. Not bad at all.

10/25/2009: The Dogfather... Aroma: Roasted and caramelized malts, dark fruit, LOTS of semi-sweet chocolate. Appearance: True black in color, 2-fingers of tan-colored foam with a top surface that resembles the moon. Flavor: Dark chocolate, black patent barley and other roasted malts; earthy licorice in the finish; moderate bitterness throughout. Palate: Medium-full. Overall: Pretty good; one of the better offerings from Laughing Dog.

Bottle shared by alexsdad06. Thanks Brad! Rating #101 for this beer.

22oz bottle. Medium brown head atop black body. Aroma is moderately sweet, roast, dark chocolate, some grapefruit/earthy, coffee, alcohol, wood/smoke, light soy, vanilla. Taste is moderately sweet, bittersweet chocolate, some earthy/grapefruit, roast, light vanilla, wood smoke. Smooth medium-full body, low carbonation, goes down quite easily given how big it is.