Shorts Imperial Carob Stout

Brewed by Shorts Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial Stout
Bellaire, Michigan USA

Appearance: Pours a dark brown body, though with only a scant, off-white head. Smell: Roasty, grainy aroma smelling fairly chocolatey and a bit like fresh-brewed coffee. Taste: Roast and an intensely dark chocolate-esque flavor with a subtle sweetness. Tastes of burnt marshmallows and cookie crumbs. Hint of bitterish tree bark. Fairly roasty throughout, particularly on the otherwise creamy finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium carbonation. Drinkability: Rather enjoyable! It’s good to see carob finally making a much-needed comeback. One of the tasties carob-based beers that have ever been.

Black body with a khaki colored head. The aroma was milk chocolate and bread. The taste was chocolate and bread. Notes and plums and coffee come through. Nicely made.

Tasted at Noogfest 4.0 (2008). This Imperial Stout pours a deep black color from a 750ml bottle. Small to medium sized tan foamy head. The aroma is chocolate and coffee and carob. A medium bodied Imperial Stout. The malts are chocolate and coffee and the carob adds a slightly different spin to an imperial stout. The hops were earthy. It is an imperial stout, but not quite. The carob adds an interesting flavor profile to the beer, but it also seems to thin out the body a little. Mouthfeel is a touch thin. Finish si clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly bitter

a bit thin but good flavor. This seems to be an interesting brewery, but this beer came across as just another imperial stout, although a bit thin.

thanks to heemer for sharing at noogfest 08 The carob adds a different kind of complexity and this is a tasty impy stout.

Don’t remember who shared this gem at DLD, but thank you, thank you! This was so much the same RIS you’ve had before but very different at the same time. Pours dark in color with no head. Taste is a much different choco profile than I ever have tasted. Somewhat crisp on the mouthfeel. Good, clean dark chocolate and roasted taste. Great beer.

This was a black chocolate mess and it was awesome with a roasty malty flavor as it warmed it tasted even better,had on DLD was not sure who let me try but i love IPS and could not resist.CHEERS!

phil... carob can not only replace chocolate ... but may be preferable... this provided a little somthing different nuanced mature a the carob gave this beer a little something it would not have had as a chocolate stout. thannks shorts for the continued innovation!!!