Legend Imperial Stout

Brewed by Legend Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Richmond, Virginia USA

Jet black, with a brown creamy head, nose of coffee, roasted malts, burnt toast. Flavor is creamy, lots of coffee, dark malts, and a potent hop finish. Pretty good.

22oz bomber from my Secret Santa Numenor, no date. Pours black with a towering four finger head into my La Fin du Monde tulip, and I only got about 8oz poured. After a few minutes the tan head has died down to a modest one finger. The aroma reminds me of Gonzo Imperial Porter with a lot of pine, leafy hops and roasted malts. Also there is a bit of almonds, soy, alcohol, oats, and vinous characteristics. Flavor is more roasty bitter malts and charred wood. The piney hops are in there as well. Dry finish with lingering bitterness. Medium to full bodied and smooth with light to moderate carbonation--must’ve all gone to the head. This is Legend’s best brew, as far as I’m concerned.

Draft at Green Leafe, Williamsburg: Pitch-black with a dark tan head. Nicely bittered! A hoppy stout, what a treat! Roasty and toasty. Yummy.

bomber, poured a very dark brown. Brown lasting head. Nose licorice and coffee.ood mouth feel, tasted like coffee and there is not hint of alcohol is by far the best from them.

Pours a pitch black with a large, long-lasting tan head. The aroma is anise and espresso with a good bit of dark chocolate. The flavor is more of the same. Backing it all up is a bit of buttered toast from the diacetyl. This was a bottled version and diacetyl seems much more common in their bottled beers than the beers I had on tap at the brewpub. The diacetyl really works with this beer, though.

Pitch black, head is afe, dark sand, caramelized sugar color. Head lasts and laces forever. Aroma is quality coffee and chocolate. Taste is same with slight caramel and lactate. Roasted bitter finish. Alcohol nearly imperceptable, very strong flavor. Thick, carbonated palate. Aftertaste is a little too strong, like eating a plain dark-roasted coffee bean. First sip was amazing, but aftertaste wears on you over course of the beer. Might want to eat some food with this one. Purchased at Norm’s beer in Vienna, VA.

Pours a medium dark black with a nice tan head. Aroma is a bit intense with columbus hop aroma (well says tomoahawk- but they are very similar IMO). Due to its oatmeal and high columbus/tomahawk content, this really reminded me of a stronger version of troegs oatmeal stout. Flavor s roasty, light coffee, chocolate, and lots of hop bitterness. Smooth and pretty easy drinking. Still, really hoppy impy stouts arent relaly my favorite anymore. Foudn these notes from Axillas Impy night back in Dec/ or Jan.

Poured an opaque black color with a large brown head. Big piney hop aroma followed by roasted malt and butter scotch. The flavor was of sweet and roasted malt. Buttery as well. Dry bitter finish. Thin body. I don’t like diacetyl and would have scored the aroma lower if it wasn’t for the hops.