Smuttynose Imperial Stout

Brewed by Smuttynose Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA

2006 bomber, with a shout out to Pantanap for this excellent bonus, THANKS Kan! Pours a nice dark brown/black, with a moderate creamy brown head, good lacing. Aroma is rich and full, with espresso, chocolate, molasses, dark fruits, and light licorice and hops. Flavor bring a lot of roastiness, with espresso, chocolate and dark fruits. A very solid and well done IS.

22 oz bottle, 2006. Dark brown with a tan haze. Nose is coffee, molasses and dark chocolate. Medium body with light carb. Taste is coffee, prunes, chocolate, alcohol, lime juice and grapefruit. This has held up well after a year but could improve with a few more to soften.

Many thanks to Hogtownharry for the bottle! Pours an inky, oily black with a small deep brown head. Holy smokes, I could smell this thing a foot away as soon as I popped the top! Licorice, dark toffee, cereal, and molasses. Wow, no complaints about the taste. Bitter resinous hops and tarry, black, thick malt. Plenty of licorice flavour - nice! Dark, fruity, smoky aftertaste lingers as beer warms. Strong alco burn. Thick creamy body with decent carb. What a treat!

Pours a nice gloomy black color.Some roastedness and chocolate on the nose.The roastedness came out in the flavor but there was a slight hoppiness to it.Finished slightly bitter

Bottle from trade with MaxxDaddy. Black with a dark tan head. Moderate cocoa on the nose, minor contributions of dark chocolate, alcohol, and roast. Maybe licorice also. A lot of bitter roastiness up front with some heat following up. A nice brew, roasty and easy to drink, and not necessarily trying to hit the home run. Satisfying.

22 oz. bomber bottle, "Bottle Conditioned in 2006," blurb along the left side of the label, sampled in a snifter. Poured a syrupy looking blackish brown with tight compact tan head of creamy foam, slowly dissipated into a thin sudsy lacing, minimal amount of laced sticking. Yep, it’s not hard to tell that this has been dry hopped with NW hops, quite floral, orange blossoms namely, and citric zest with oily grapefruit peels that softly dominate the aroma. A subtle berry vanilla goes along with the mildly roasted malts, cocoa and light coffee. This has a rich creamy full body that makes this RIS a bit to easy to drink, helps hide the 10% ABV. The malts have a sweet charred taste, cocoa beans, caramelized brown sugar and mild roasted coffee. Behind the malts is a berry fruitiness with a soft acidity. The hops are a bit more mellower than in the aroma, but you still get plenty of citric tastes, orange zest and grapefruit pulp. Soft hop spiciness comes out at the end, melding with roasted malt tastes. The alcohol is barely noticeable, just a low temperature fruity warmth in the mouth. I thought this was a pretty enjoyable RIS, glad I picked up a couple of bottles on a recent trip to Wisconsin, will definitely provide a nice soothing warmth on an cold winter night.

bottle. it has a black color with a small head. the aroma is nice and roasty. the tastes is quite good with lots of roastyness.

The color was very dark chocolate. The head was creamy, laced, medium beige, and thin. The aroma was alcohol, molasses, chocolate, cheer-wine-esque, and sweet malt. The flavor was coffee, roasty, smokey, sweet malt, molasses, hops, and a waxyness. The palate was smooth. The finish was warm.