Odell Imperial Stout

Brewed by Odell Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

12oz bottle-Black body with a nice tan head and an aroma of dark malt and chocolate. Taste of chocolate, roasted malt and more chocolate. Great tasting stout.

20060812 Shared at Mel’s Madness. I don’t think I had even heard of Odell before this beer was opened today. Deep cola brown, not quite opaque stuff, decent brown head. Has a sharp, clean northwest aroma to it that reminds of Black Butte with a mild roast and light cocoa blending nicely with subtly pithy PNW hops. Pretty dry stuff, yet rich and full. Ends up boozy and maybe rummy with touches of lactic sourness. Pretty darn nice.

Pours an opaque black with a brown head. Aroma is malty, roasty, chocolate, and some molasses. Flavor is chocolate, roasted malts, and molasses. A little thin for a imperial stout.

12oz. bottle. Aroma is full of chocolate malt sweetness and milky caramel, along with lighter touches of raisin, black cherry and vanilla combined with a roasty, earthy undercurrent and a very faint suggestion of bubblegum. Solid black in color with a lasting, fine, light brown head. Flavors include a stronger coffeeish element and light amount of spicinesss, blended with a generous amount of cocoa and toffee and finishing long with notes of peppery alcohol, red grape, very faint citrus and some lingering hop bitterness and roasty malts. Smooth and lightly coating mouthfeel with a full body. A pleasant rendition.

Bottle sampled on 2/13/07: Pours a barely transparent dark mahogany brown with a thin ring of tan head. Aroma of rich dark chocolate and licorice with a touch of earthy malt. Body starts fairly dull and sweet with a dark caramely malty flavor with a touch of smoke and plum complexity toward a drier finish.

12 oz. bottle via trade with PhillyBeer2112 - Pours a dark brown color with a half finger thick tan head. Head faded pretty quick and the beer doesn’t leave much lacing. Aroma is roasted malt, chocolate, light molasse, and faint vanilla. Flavor is roasted malt and light chocolate. Has a lingering dry aftertaste. Medium body. Smooth mouthfeel. A nice beer. Thanks Dan.

Immediately smelled a winey type of aroma, quickly followed by a quick kick of coffee and then settling into a somewhat harsh malt aroma, taste was indeed pleasant ,a subtle mixture of chocolate and vanilla, definitely on the light side, smooth and creamy and yet very light, always seemed to be a trace of Hersheys Chocolate syrup around,a session Imp Stout?

A nice looking stout with a reddish dark walnut color. Tan head with lacing. Smokey raisen aroma-drinks good too, lots of chocolate, coffee, malts and spice. Yum......Beer goooood.