Smuttynose Imperial Stout

Excellent beer. Pours a very dark black. Nice hoppy flavor and a chocolatey note. drank this beer after drinking a stone ruination and i deffinetly notice it was 10.1%!

Bomber ’06 vintage - Pours a midnight black with a rapidly fading head. It seems that the year of aging has brought the hoppiness down a bit from what others have noted when the beer was new. The mellowing, I think, helps to marry the roasted maltiness with the hoppiness, creating a well balanced character. There is a chocolatey note, but not a sweet one. More like burnt dark chocolate. I like.

Lots of bang on the sniffer. Good color. Small head that creeps to a medium. Chocolatey taste. Sweet alcohol finish. Tingly on the tongue.

22oz - Indy tasting Sept 07 - Aroma of oats, dark malts, chocolate and fresh hops. Pours black with a small head and good lacing. Flavor matches aroma and I like it a lot. Palate is creamy and nice. A great brew.

750 mL bottle. Deep, dark copper brown; almost black. Nice dark beige head. Black coffee and dark chocolate rule both the aroma and the taste. Alcohol is not apparent in the aroma, and only mildly so in the flavour. You’d never know that this is 10%. No astringency. The finish is lightly bitter and alcoholic. Mouthfeel is full and almost creamy. Nice beer.

Draught. Pours black with reddish edges, and a small dense tan head. The aroma is molasses, maple syrup, some dark caramel and chocolate, and a hint of pine. The flavor is sharp piney hops, some strange tart floral notes. Then molasses comes, with some bitter chocolate and some wood. The finish sports alcohol and light rum. I like my imperial stouts hoppy, so this was quite satisfying.

Bottle. Pours pitch black with a small brown head. Roasted and malty with notes of dark and dried fruit, hops, spices, coffee, bitter chocolate and a slight alco burn in the end. Very nice.

poured into tulip. pours a black with mild head. mild mocha malty aroma. sweet malty mocha thruoght. hops present themselves. hop mocha, good yet fresh.