Southern Tier Jah-va

Brewed by Southern Tier Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Lakewood, New York USA

Location: 22 oz bottle from Gilly’s, 11/22/09

Aroma: Nose is dominated by roasted coffee with drops of chocolate and caramel
Appearance: Pours a jet black color with minimal brown head and drippy lace on the glass
Flavor: Taste is a bit sweet, lots of roasted coffee malts, and a light-medium bitterness in the finish
Palate: Quite a full bodied brew, somewhat creamy, with fairly soft carbonation, 11% is well hidden
Overall Impression: Holy coffee, Batman! This is a coffee stout for sure, they weren’t kidding at all when they labeled it that. Could make for a very nice morning beer if that’s your cup-of-tea (or should that be coffee). Bad puns aside, this is definitely a good brew for the coffee lover, I might not be able to sleep tonight thanks to this one...
Oh, and it went pretty darn well with a chocolate lava cake too.

from crackedkettle.com - dark black coloured with a poor head retention; solid aroma of coffee with notes of cold ashes; creamy mouthfeel, powerful malt body and with a robust bitterness; nutty and malty roasted coffeish finish

Bottle, RBNAG 2009 in Vatlandsvåg. Dark brown colour, nearly black, low head. Nice aroma of coffee and roasted malts. Coffee in the flavour too, also notes of alcohol and oak, there is also a slight acidity.

10th May 2008. Silky smooth stout with a mild carbonation. The coffee is beautifully integrated, smooth and never bitter but not wimpy either. There is an almost salty note running throughout nicely offset by creamyness. Semi dry finish. Excellent!

Aroma is heavy bourbon whiskey alcohol blast. Milk chocolate. More of a bitter creme brulee/toffee than java in the nose. Pours a dark chocolate brown. Coffee brown head, which disappears quickly. Tastes of creme brulee and bitter malt. Cocoa comes through. Takes some warming up for the coffee flavors to kick in. STRONG alcohol presence. BItters up at the end. Liqueur bite. Feels very smooth and milky. Really easy going down, save for that massive alcohol bite. It’s a pretty good, thick, alcohol-heavy brew.

Pours a jet black with a small off white head. The aroma is sweet and roasty. Chocolate, marshmallow, caramel, and a little coffee on the nose. The taste is sticky sweet and a little roasty... The coffee is there but lacking for a beer called jah-va. Demerarra, chocolate, vanilla, marshmallow, and toasted malt on the palate. The mouth feel is heavy and oily. Good, but not great.

Pours pitch black with a medium tan head. Aroma is very malty with some coffee. Excellent coffee and roasted malt flavor, with a nice thick body. Overall an impressive beer, which I have become used to from the Blackwater series.

black, which isn’t surprising since its part of their imperial/black water series, with a caramel colored head that quickly fades into nothing. The smell is strong - coffee. Besides that I can sense some hints of dark malts, chocolate, and sweet hints (probably caramel). Taste is very heavy on the coffee, interesting and very good.