Samuel Smiths Imperial Stout

Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: Imperial Stout
Tadcaster, England

12 oz. bottle in quart jar. Opaque black with 3 finger, light brown, lasting head. Aroma is chocolate chip cookie dough with brown sugar. Flavor is initially similar, but dry and balanced with some hops and a tongue tingle. Taste and aftertaste keeps getting more dry, a bit too so for me. Palate is medium-heavy. The SS oatmeal stout is smoother and tastier, but this is a good beer.

Bottle. Pours thick, dark blackish-brown with a large tan head that settled at a moderate pace. Aroma is delicious, lots of dark dried fruit scents - raisins, figs, prunes - along with generous amounts of molasses and coffee with a hint of hoppiness. Flavor is nice too, dark roasted malts, sweet and thick with strong bitter coffee and hop finish. Full body and creamy carbonation. A good stout from the land of the original Imperials.

Pours a jet black and no light shows through. Nice little tan head forms out of the bottle. Aroma is of a roasted butterscotch. Flavor is roasted malts and dollop of alcohol. FLavor may be a bit to weak in mine. More sweet than creamy but still pretty fine.

Pitch black with a thick tan head. Sweet licorice malty aroma with a hint of tobacco and kelp. Med body and lightly carbonated. Great taste of sweet licorice and roasted/blackened malts. This beer has a salt air smell of Puget Sound. Very good. 81605

[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.

Nice large milk chocolate colored head of fine dense and creamy bubbles. Excellent looking in the glass. Wonderful aroma with loads of milk chocolate, sweet malts and lactose. Color is a very dark brown. Body is a little thin but still good. Lots of smoked malts in the flavor along with some roasted grains, milk chocolate and a hint of raisins. Finished creamy and a little bit dry. This is a pretty damn good "lighter" imperial stout.

Holy cow! Smooth like the dickens, full-bodied and creamy. Longer lasting head than almost any impy I know. And incredibly balanced. Sure, the American Impys challenge the palate and tastebuds in different ways, some more malty and some hoppier. Nils Oscar is wonderful roastiness with a bit lighter body. But this is a different animal in its refinement. I love it!

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.