Ottos Jolly Roger Imperial Stout

Bottle at first Oldsmar Taphouse BA Tasting. Courtesy of someone. The aroma is beef bouillon, tobacco, dark bittersweet chocolate, cooked dark fruit and smoke with a lot of boozy phenols. The body is black and holds a wispy brown head. Big chocolate, coffee fore. Very bitter roasted notes. Massive cooked dark fruit (prune, fig, cherries, dates and raisins) finish.

Bottle - Big, dark brown color. Heavy, oasty, smoky aroma dominated by wood, chocolate, and roast with a lot of big scents. Flavor is roasty and smoky with some dark coffee, chocolate, and a tad of licorice. Really nice impy stout that satisfies.

Bottle (RBESG 08): Intensely black; chocolate, cacao in the nose; full bitter-sweet flavour, full bodied, but easy-drinking; lingering, warming chocolatey finish

(Bottle) Pours black. The aroma is of sweet dark berries and chocolate up front with undertones of tobacco, blue and blackberries, molasses, dark bread, coffee and hints of brown sugar. The flavour is medium roasted and medium hoppy bitter with tones of mild molasses, brown sugar, tar, salt liquorice, dark bread and tobacco. The mouthfeel is light oily and smooth with dry finish. Some alcohol warmth is present. Medium to full bodied.

(6/29/08) Bottle sample at RBESG08 grand tasting in Plzen. Black-colored with a brown head. Aroma of heavily roasted malt, some chocolate and alcohol. Sweet flavor with almost burnt malt, dark chocolate and a bit of dark fruitiness. Quite full-bodied.