 scrizzz (1263), kirkland, Washington, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Sep 5, 2009 Peculiar and intriguing fertile topsoil nose with limestone and resiny hops. Thick black, thicker tan head, slick and like sludge. This beer creates a devil and angel on each shoulder. I really like the polarizing flavors here, densely sweet with dark and dank oily hops, but the experience isn’t as fun on the palate. On paper doesn’t always transfer to the palate. Heavy tobacco. Charred in the finish. I like this beer and I don’t. Interesting but still..... There’s a large part of me that gets pleasure from expressive beer and this really seems to pull that favor out of me. I love that this was brewed apart from any sort of pedigree. Cheers.
TaktikMTL (2764), Montréal-Nord, Quebec, Canada
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
Sep 3, 2009 Bouteille de 22 oz partagée lors d’une dégustation Ratebeer Montréal chez Glouglouburp. Arôme: Odeur de café et de chocolat avec une pointe d’houblons. Apparence: La couleur est noire opaque. Présence d’un mince col beige mousseux et d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût de café, de chocolat et de petits fruits avec une pointe d’alcool. Longue durée de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement crémeuse. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Présence de cafée en arrière goût. (Rating #2638)
coyotehunter (545), , Michigan, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Aug 22, 2009 Thank you MrBunn for sharing. Smells fantastic of hops, tobacco, dark fruit and some bitter chocolate. Pours a deep black/brown with an enormous tan head.First sip, not so good. Some lactose, cocoa, light hops. Second, way better. A litle smokey, smooth palate. Very good!
MrBunn (1525), Western, Pennsylvania, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Aug 22, 2009 Muchas gracias, Cletus! Bomber releases a dark brown, viscous pour with lots of head (especially for the styel) and aromas that have a TON of hops in them. Pine covers up chocolate and alcohol. Flavor is heavy pine up front and then transitions to pine and chocolate milk on the backside. Variation from sip to sip seems to be pretty large, with some focusing more on cocoa and some more on the pine with the ever-present alcohol warmth and flavor coming through.
slang (397), Columbia, South Carolina, USA
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Aug 10, 2009 ~’09~ 22oz. Big black stout! It’s got a roasty aroma but not in the typical coffee sense. While it may have a slicker mouthfeel than other more-chewy Impies; there’s still a lot going on! Choc.y malts w/ various nutty flavors and the hops are ever present. It’s a very solid stout.
fiulijn (7150), Como; Lausanne (CH); Malmö (SWE), Italy
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Aug 8, 2009 Bottle at Akkurat, Stockholm; vintage 2007, 2 years old
Black oil color; big creamy head. It has a strong aroma of good coffee, chocolate, roasted malts, cheese, paper. Good body strength, not thick; there is chocolate flavor first, followed by rhubarb candies, more roasted malt and coffee in the end; some milky impression too; it’s very pleasant how the flavors follow each other. Quite strong bitterness. Interesting and well brewed.
williamherbert (466), Syracuse, New York, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Aug 6, 2009 Pitch black like a pot of coffee. Large cardboard brown head. The head becomes a chunky film that sits atop. Looks like chocolate milk from above. Pure motor oil.
Ok the smell: 1) Alcohol blast; 2) Thick and ballsy quasi-barleywine aroma; 3) Burnt malts; 4) A slight citrusy hop. A huge, intense aroma. Half-amazing, half-intimidating.
The taste is a big blast of alcohol. A seriously burnt malt, like charred cookies. Mild sweet raisin. Strong and brutal. As it warms, some citrusy hops, but completely overwhelmed by charred malt.
The feel is chewy, creamy and a little oily. Maybe the most burnt beer I’ve ever had in my life. Pitch black. One and done for me. Tastes quite good, but in an extreme way. Best from a snifter.
beerandIT (183), Richmond, Virginia, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Jul 28, 2009 Pours a very dark almost black with a small amount of head that leaves the scene rather quickly. Full bodied beer. On the nose I get chocolate mixed with coffee almost like a fifty fifty combination. Also some caramel and toffee in there along with subtle roasted malts. The aroma is very telling of what you are finding on the palate almost deadly accurate. I get chocolate with traces of the coffee in there as well. They are intermingled very well in the palate. I also get sweet roasted malts in there, nuances of toffee and a slight alcohol burn. I think the fact I can taste the alcohol is because this is a fresh vintage. Definitely recommend this one as the price is under 7 dollars here.
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