Leinenkugels Big Eddy Russian Imperial Stout

Formerly brewed at Leinenkugel Brewing Company (MillerCoors)
Style: Imperial Stout
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin USA

Bottled. A black beer with a thin brown head. The aroma is sweet with notes of soy sauce, wood, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of malt, roasted malt, soy sauce, and alcohol, as well as medium notes of wood, leading to a dry roasted and woody finish. Thanks Papsoe for sharing.

Bottle 35,5 cl. Courtesy of Skyview. Pours black and opaque with a light brown head. Salty aroma of hard roasted malts. Solid body, burned dark malts, some vanilla also. Strange salinity. Hard roasted malty bitterness in the finish with some dried fruits. 130909

12 fl oz bottle. Pours black with a small chocolate brown head. Aroma is dry roasted dark malty with a light chocolate malty note. Mild sweetness, caramelish and roasted dark malty flavoured. Smooth roasted flavoured into the far finish. Mild acidic and light chalky note.

Bottle 355ml. @ home.
[ Trade by BDR ]. Clear dark black color with a average to large, creamy, excellent lacing, fully lasting, light brown head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, dark chocolate, licorice, dark plum notes. Flavor is heavy sweet and coffee & burnt bitter with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is creamy, carbonation is soft. [20090706]

Bottle, thanks to sk8viking fior sharing. Black coloured with a small beige head. Roasted aroma of chocolate and cocoa powder with notes of liquorice, alcohol, dried fruits and boubon. Roasted flavour of chocolate, cocoa powder, dried fruits and alcohol with notes of hops. Roasted and warming alcoholic finish.

Name: Big Eddy Imperial Stout
Date: 11/17/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Throwdown 3

black, fine tan head, vicious almost to the point of having legs, streaks of lace, strong dark chocolate aroma with a bit of licorice, big and creamy body, rich dark chocolate flavor, growing bitterness rises out of dark chocolate, chocolate stays strong to the end, touch of dark fruits, lasting bitter finish,
-------- /> Name: Big Eddy Imperial Stout
Date: 12/18/2007
Mode: bottle
Source: trade

black, big creamy brown head, rich dark chocolate aroma with sweet licorice and vanilla, lots of bitter dark chocolate flavor, touch of coffee character, the creamy body combined with the rich dark chocolate is what makes this beer special

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 9/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 4.2/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: ***+/4

Re-rate, bottle from Daknole, tasted at home
Looks inky and very dark brown in my Cigar City snifter. Aroma is, well, burnt fruit, with some tarry molasses notes...rich and I can see why people dig it. Flavour is sweet, palate relatively simple with oversweetened harsh espresso. Molasses-like finish. Overall, this brew is simplistic, hitting a few basic impy notes, and doing so with at least a modicum of style. However, it lacks dimension and nuance relative to the superior examples. 4-7-6-2-11 =3.0

First rate, Brouwer’s
Dark, tarry appearance. Somewhat thin body is tarry, oily, with black malt notes. Chewy, very much burnt fruit on the nose. Late heat. Really, it’s a starter impy, where they’ve held back on the good stuff quite a bit. 6-4-5-2-10 = 2.7

Black with with meidum dark beige head. Sweet aroma with burn malt, liquerice, coffee and chocolate. Sweet flavour with burned malt, coffee, alcohol and chocolate. Warming alcohol towards the end. Very vinious.