Samuel Smiths Imperial Stout

Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: Imperial Stout
Tadcaster, England

550 ml bottle from Stateline. Poured a super dark brown with a large frothy yellowish beige head. Aroma of vanilla extract, chocolate, roastiness and almonds. Sweet yet roasty flavor with lots of vanilla and chocolate up front plus espresso and dark fruit. Medium bodied with average carbonation and a slight roasty burnt aftertaste that lingers. Nicely done.

Very dark brown with a lasting tan head.Aroma is subdued, yet chocolatey. Very smooth creamy chocolate-coffee flavor. the chocolate lingers. The roasted barley bitterness becomes more evident as it is consumed. YUMMY!

There's a little deception with the bottle with the gold foil over the top so you're tricked into thinking you have a dark brown bottle, but as you pour it the bottle empties and it becomes a clear bottle. It pours out blubbing from its longer, thinner neck to a super thick dark brown used motor oil color, much like that of what it looks like in the bottle, a finger high head of cocoa brown, very dense whipped cream froth appears with a momentary rocky top then settles slowly down to a thin haze and the lace is in thick sticky sheets with some moth holes in it. Smell has a bunch of licorice and a touch of cherry with notes of sweet chocolate, dark toffee, and french silk pie, sweet tangy roastyness is there but modestly soft. Taste is a mild mellow mix of sweet chocolate, soft tangy roasted malts, and some fruit cake or breads, cherry mostly with some raisin and fig notions. Smooth and lasting medium body feel with some light coffeeish like drying and muffled, dulled fruity roasted tangyness in the finish which lingers for a shortened minute. Goes down easy with some carbonation that lends a somewhat flat soda pop. I just wonder if the light getting through the clear bottle is doing something to it? A solid well balanced Imperial Stout but not all that intriguing or complex really. The nose got a bit more lively as it warmed which was nice, as for the taste the warmth only brought out a flatter roastyness and lost the fruity notions that I did like at first. A great start for any would-be beer lover that wishes to aspire to better beer.

Pours extremely black with hints of caramel on the nose. Tastes of a dark porter, with a coffee finish. Very dark and strong.

Nice, but I don’t love it. Dark roasted flavor with a twinge of sourness on the finish. Just something about it that doesn’t jive with me.

Got in Bottle at the lcbo in the gift pack, nice and dark with a good head. lotsa roasted malts some hoppiness well balanced some sweetness. enjoyasble

Bottle from clarkvv. Pours black w/ tan head. Nose is sweet plums. Taste is dry, semi sweet with some smoked malts and the plums again.

Very dark brown , nearly black with a good sized tan head. Aromas are of roasted malts dark chocolate, coffee, and prune. Tastes are dark chocolate, roasted malts, and prune with a light hop flavor.