Peoples Pint Imperial Stout

Brewed by Peoples Pint
Style: Imperial Stout
Greenfield, Massachusetts USA

Bottle from Tweety, finally I get to try this. Thanks Paul!! Black pour with a nice tan head. This beer rocks. Aroma is full of molasses, light roasted malt, choclate, prunes and some strong coffee. Flavor is full and rich, molasses, liquor soaked raisins, chocolate and a bit of coffee. Damn this is good. Paul, thank you so much. I was sure this was a beer I would never try.

12 oz. bottle from 2007. Pours utterly black with nearly no head. This is one of the more interesting imperial stouts that I’ve had. Aroma has many of the chocolate and coffee notes that you usually get from a big stout. The interesting part is that there’s a huge dark fruits aroma that’s almost vinous in character. Flavor is much the same. Some chocolate, some coffee, and again alot of dark fruits. Very unique, and really enjoyable I thought.

12 oz. bottle - big thanks to Tweety for trading me this tasty brew; jet black, oily and no head; very strong aromas of bourbon, oak, vanilla, plums, and coffee; killer nose; oily texture leaves plenty around the glass; dry finish with tons of coffee in the flavors; slightly hot, but very drinkable; wow, a great beer; thanks Paul!!

Bottle-conditioned, 1999. A solid wall of cream is left on the inside of the glass after this wonderful midnight concoction leaves it; cherries, brandy, and cigar tobacco assail the nose powerfully throughout the experience. Too much flavor for me to adequately describe after the one bottle I was capable of drinking; its a rough mix of the above aromatics, a fairly strong alcohol component, chocolate, bark, sourness at the end and enough hops to keep you guessing. Perhaps too hard to drink to be truly great, but a dynamite experience nonetheless and one that I will try to have again as soon as possible.

Poured an opaque black color with a thin, tan head that left nice lacing on the glass. Aroma of roasted malts, cocoa, smoke, vanilla, molasses, and light alcohol. Taste of roasted malts, sweet, chewy chocolate, dark fruits, charred wood, tobacco, and light alcohol in the finish.

12oz bottle acquired in trade with Cletus (thanks!). Bottle # 118 (but of how many???). 2008 Vintage. Poured a dark black color, with reddish/brown edges, and an averaged sized brown head. Aromas of roast, chocolate, lightly nutty, molasses, and some coffee. Tastes of chocolate, vanilla, dark fruits, roast, molassess, smoke, and some bitter coffee in the finish. Some lacing left on the glass.

Cask sample. Pours dark brown with a light brown head. Smells of roasted malt, dark fruit, chocolate. Tastes lightly bitter with a nice layered malt profile.

10th rating lets make this official. 2007 12oz bottle number 539. Bottle via trade with Tweety. Poured into my reidel snifter. Pours black with a light brown ring of a head. Nose is sweet and rich with a big roasty malt and dark fruit nose. Taste is sweet and rich and chocolaty. The mouthfeel is chewy and there is a tobacco woody, slightly smoky , and overall very rich. Can’t say this is as good as the espresso yeti I had last night, but this is a superb imperial stout.