Lost Abbey Serpents Stout

Brewed by Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: Imperial Stout
San Marcos, California USA

Bottle @ tasting by jbrus. A black colored beer, with a beige head. The aroma of smoked malts with chocolate. there are hints of coffee. The taste is full thick flavor of chocolate with bitters and notes of coffee with dark fruits. The aftertaste is chcocolate bitter wit notes of sweet.

Bottle@UDRM. Officially the best beer during our tasting session. And we saved the best for last. Very complex but beautiful in balance. Nice sweetness, but not too sweet. Powerful yet still mild. Great stuff!

Serving: 750 ml bottle. Appearance: Pitch black with a big, thick, tan head. Excellent head retention and great lacing. Aroma: Big roasty nose with burnt notes and coffee notes. Flavor: Parallels the nose with added depth. Very roasty with notes of coffee, earth, some spice, and warming alcohol. Palate: Medium-low carbonation with a very rich and smooth mouthfeel and a long, roasty finish. Overall: An excellent Impy that is definitely worth a try.

Bottle. 25.4 oz. Pours deep, deep brown with a thick, creamy, beige head. Aroma of chocolate, coffee, roasted malt, barley, pepper, clove, cinnamon, and vanilla. Extremely unique nose. Firm, tight body with an amazingly smooth, crisp finish. Outrageous stout; one of the best I have ever tasted.

Sample from bottle. Black color with a very small head. A lot of coffee and chocolate in aroma and flavor. Thick with a full body. Nice mouthfeel.

Dark obsidian pour with almost no head, just a tan ring around the glass that laces well and leaves nice boozey little legs as i sip it down. Aroma is powdered cocoa, some slight roast, some creamy notes. Flavor is bold, Mouthfeel is really creamy. Dark chocolate, licorice up front, some earthy, dark fruit notes in the center and a fantastic roasty, dry finish. Deep, dark beer by Lost Abbey, very decadent.

Bottle courtesy of BeerandBlues2 at a blind Imperial Stout tasting at his house on 9/22/09. Color is black with fair carbonation and just a brown ring of a head. Aroma is a lightly sweet roasted scent with alcohol. It has a bold medium body with a rich mouth feel. Finish is a light fruit flavor that comes out mildly sweet backed by a nice roasted bitterness and slightly dry after taste. Overall its a very good brew and seemed to have much better carbonation then some of the previous Lost Abbey brews I have had.

Pours pitch black and completely opaque with not even the slightest of mahogany edges when held to a light source and HUGE frothy, pillowy coffee colored head that has excellent retention, only slowly fading into a thick cap that lasts throughout, leaving large chunks of lacing. Roasted malt aroma with hints of coffee, dark chocolate, licorice, anise, spicy pepper, dark fruits and a decent amount of earthy hops. Very roasted full body with a lot of dark chocolate maltiness, spicy pepper and anise, coffee, toffee, oatmeal, caramel malt and a nice bitter hop finish. Heavily carbonated up front with a very roasty dark maltiness, followed by a sweet caramel and chocolate body with a very bitter dry hoppy finish. Recommended.