 kp (8500), Woodstock, Georgia, USA
| 2.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 4/5 | 10/20 |
Sep 1, 2007 Date: 05/31/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting
black, thin fine brown head, sweet buttery roasted aroma, creamy body, big roasted flavor, good hop bitterness, bitter malt finish,
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.9/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4
argo0 (6978), Washington DC, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Dec 16, 2005 (draft) Brown-black body topped by a brown head that leaves nice lacing. Aroma is medium sweet, chocolate, pine, raspberry, roast, the Legend house yeast, light butterscotch. Taste is medium sweet, pine, chocolate, some grapefruit, and the Legend house yeast. Smooth medium-full body, alcohol well hidden.
bu11zeye (5621), Frisco, Texas, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Sep 19, 2007 (Bottle) Pours an opaque black body with a thick creamy brown head and nice lacing. Flavor of roastiness, sweet chocolate, and light lactose sourness. Flavor of roasted malt, chocolate, some pine, and light citrus with a dry bitter finish.
hopdog (5609), Lansdale, Pennsylvania, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Jan 26, 2006 Sampled from 22oz bottle courtesy of Whaleman. Poured a dark black color with an averaged sized brown head. Wow talk about a hoppy nose. Aromas of strong pine giving way to roasted malts, chocolate, and a light butteriness. The hops in the flavors were not as strong as the aroma. Tastes of roasted malts, hop leaves, coffee, and light caramel. Some lacing left on the glass. I have a bottle of this that I will let sit to see how the hop presence fade over time.
jcwattsrugger (5563), Florida and, New Jersey, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 12/20 |
May 11, 2007 on tap-pours a light brown head and black color. Aroma is citrus/sweet hops, dark malt. Taste is dark malt-chocolate/licorice, sweet hops. Nice. Medium/full body. Medium mouth feel. Mild carbonation.
CaptainCougar (5521), Rockville, Maryland, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Jan 26, 2007 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.
hopscotch (5514), Vero Beach, Florida, USA
| 4.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 10/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 19/20 |
Dec 24, 2005 Updated: Dec 26, 2005Bottle... This beer rocks!... Pitch black ale with a mid-sized, creamy, light brown head. Great retention. The rich aroma is to die for... milk chocolate, caramel, toffee, pine needles, vanilla, freshly ground coffee, and butterscotch. The moderately-bitter flavor is all about pine, toffee, grapefruit rind, caramel and charred coffee grounds. Full-bodied and silky with medium carbonation. Finishes astringent, bitter and Mojave dry. Almost too rich to finish the bomber myself, but I pulled it off. Christmas one day early. A world class gem! Huge thanks go out to growler for the bomber.
MartinT (5068), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| 2.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 4/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 4/5 | 10/20 |
Feb 3, 2008 My Bottom Line:
Pickled oils swerve around the thick, bountiful mouthfeel of this Imperial Stout, undermining its salient roastiness, dark chocolate and vanilla maltiness.
Further Personal Perceptions:
-A ring of foam surrounds the pitch black.
-Its nose is rather atrocious; an obvious sign of a dismaying future. Either I am extremely unlucky with Legend bottles, or these guys often have bottling issues.
-The slow carbonation lets the malts express themselves eloquently.
-That pickled nastiness sometimes puts on olive oil clothing.
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