Samuel Smiths Imperial Stout

Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: Imperial Stout
Tadcaster, England

Bottle 08-04-06. Pours black, liquorice roasty and chocolate flavours dominate and there is a nice slightly sticky quaility to this very agreeable number.

Bottled. Black with an offwhite head. A salty aroma from chocolate and overripe apples. Flavour is burnt from coffee and really dark chocolate.

Black, nice brownish head.Aroma from coffe and cocoa, sour but in a pleasant way. Flavor is bitter and from coffee, tar and cocoa. Great creamy palate and a hoppy, bitter finish.

Black beer with a creamy brown medium lasting head. Aroma and taste of roasted malt and hobs. Nice full body. Great beer.

Bottled. Dark brown. Huge aroma from raisins and overripe apples. Creamy flavour with notes of mocca, coffee and dark chocolate. Dry, woody palate.

bottle from Tuckers Maltings. Dark brown colour with a small beige-brown head. Malty nose. Intensively malty, with lovely complex flavours of raisins, caramel, toffee, bitter chocolate and coffee. Lingering finish. A delicious beer.

550 ml bottle poured a nearly opaque reddish black with a lasting brown head. Aromas of plum, licorice, cocoa, raisins and a bit of coffee. Palate was light bodied. Flavors of dark fruits, licorice, bitter chocolate, some coffee notes and a hint of smoke with a smooth lingering chocolate finish.

Bottle. Pours totally black with a huge creamy light-brown head -- looks awesome. Wonderful aroma of caramel malt, roasted malt, chocolate, coffee and fruit. Flavour of lots of chocolate and roasted malt, some coffee, nuts and a nice welcome bitterness at the end -- delicious! Barely no sign of the 7% alcohol. Full bodied and creamy. A great winter warmer and an outstanding Stout.