Samuel Smiths Imperial Stout

Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: Imperial Stout
Tadcaster, England

550ml bottle
7.0% ABV
I tried this beer on January 11, 2008 after purchasing from one of my local LCBO outlets. The beer poured a coca-colour with a fluffy brown head. The aroma was dark roasted malt, bitter coffee hints, and some plums. The mouthfeel was medium-bodied, with slightly high carbonation. The taste was bitter with molasses, coffee and maltiness throughout. A very good beer

Starts cool with strong caramel malts coating dark fruit flavors, much like a good Belgian Quadruple. Then it warms to a nice nutmeg, cinnamon, and allspice hint. This beer hits all the right spots.

Nice stout. SS’s oatmeal stout is better but this hits the spot. Nice aroma. Slight tang on the finish but not enough to make it off-putting.

Aroma is a subtle mix of chocolate and licorice. Pour is jet black with a tan head. Flavour profile is a restrained mix of grainy licorice with a touch of vegemite (marmite). There is quite a long finish which os nice but would have liked a bit more out of it.

Bottle. This is a prime example of a great Imperial Stout. Pours a dark chocolate black brown. Complex and deep, voluminous flavor. Completely delicious.

[355ml bottle.] Deep chocolate brown with a milk chocolate coloured head that immediately dissipated leaving only a ring around the glass. Malty chocolate aroma. Smooth and silky in the mouth, sweeter than expected but with good body and lots of heavy fruity malts; developing a dry coffee ground finish with some bitter chocolate. Very drinkable.

Bottle from Cracked Kettle. An excellent Imperial Stout. Black colour, slight tan head. Dark nose of chocolate, coffee, dark fruits. Smooth and sugary to the taste. Nice coffee and roasty finish.

Pitch black color, with a frothy tan-colored head, leaving laces, sweet toasted, cholacote malt, mochaish nose, with some cookie dough, Graham’s cokie accents, with a hint of molasses, ice coffee, and a black chocolate, faint burnt fruit raisin aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a sweet roasted malt character, with some mochaish, black coffee flavors, with a spicy liquorice accent, some dark bitter chocolatey, burnt dark dried fruit accents of raisin, fig, within a warmth mouthfeel, leading towards a roasty, fruity, dark bitter chocolatey finish.