Legend Imperial Stout

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

22 oz bottle via Secret Santa (thanks Lou18!). Pours pitch black with a large tan head. Nose is mostly chocolate and some spicey hops. Taste starts sweet but then the hops quickly shine through, and the finish is a dry roasty cocoa. Burnt in fact. And quite dry. This is not a very complex Imp Stout, but is not bad. A bit hoppier than i prefer though. Thin/medium body. Silky mouthfeel. Moderate/high carbonation.

Bottle, sampled in May of 2006: Pours an opaque black with a nicely-lacing dense tan head. Aroma of semi-sweet very roasted malt with lots of fresh piny hops and a touch of butterscotch. Body starts with a lightly sweet dark caramel and chocolate malty presence with higher levels of carbonation. Roasted bitter malts and hops balances fairly well with the sweet dark malts before a drier bittersweet finish. Not that imperial or complex, but a good beer.

Pitch black, creamy thin tan head. Pine and spruce tones up front with underlying coffee and soft chocolate notes. Scorched coffee bitterness and pine flavors throughout with only small hints of chocolate that round it out. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, lightly burnt finish. Hard to classify this as an Imperial Stout. I’d go more along the lines of black IPA...

Bottle Black pour with massive foamy head with the color of chocolate milk. Strong hoppy aroma, well dry hopped. Definatl subleties of roasted malts hiding behind the dominating hops. Flavor was also dominated by hops, more so than I would have expected. Overall, good beer, but a little hoppier than I would have liked for the style, leading to a dissapointing imbalance.

Bomber shared with gputty. Dark pour, foamy tan head. Aroma is hops, chocolate, and malts. Flavor is a bit thin, with mostly hops, and bits of chocolate, malts, and oats.

Black brew with huge foamy brown head. Very strong hop aroma. Big bitter burn, very warm, sweet, sharp and piney. God the burn, it haunts you. Delicious.Hops is very powerful in the flavor with notes of malt creeping through. Strange feeling on the tongue like you licked a piece of metal. Not as heavy bodied as I anticipated, very drinkable and enjoyable. Very hopped up for a stout vice the normal liquid chocolate treats.

It smells like a brewery due to it’s heavy hop aroma (reminds me of my kitchen when I brew a batch). Roasted flavors, with a persistant hop flavor as well. The beer was not as creamy as I expected, and I expected the beer to be a little less hop oriented, but overall it was not that bad of a brew.

Pours jet black with a dark brwn, gigantic mousse-like head. There’s a surprising inital hop blast in the aroma, and it persists. Eventually, roasted and chocolate malt aromas appear, and the combination is reminiscant of a pot brownie. Surprisingly medium bodied for the style, the beer is crisp and clean with some coffeeish bitterness. The beer is indeed very fresh, an impression imparted by the hops, but this is otherwise on the subtle side for something I was expecting to be bold. The beer finishes with an average-length malty finish. Interesting approach with the high hop levels, but I don’t think the flavors harmonize as well as they could.