 elihapa (1067), Honolulu, California, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
May 16, 2008 bomber bottle $7.99. Pours a dark dark brown with a thin tan head. Smells of intense coffee, dark chocolate, and hops. Palate is medium, perhaps a tad thinner than, say, Brooklyn’s Black Chocolate. Flavor is a smooth mixture of rich black coffee, chocolate malts, alcohol and roasts. Very well blended and superbly balanced. Finishes with roasted notes , coffee and some bitterness. Really hid the alcohol quite well. Very good beer, if anything it finishes a tad thin for an impy stout, though this improves as the beer warms. Similar in quality and flavor to DdC’s Peche Mortel (but less coffee punch). 4.1
jrob21 (1275), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
May 16, 2008 Drank alongside a Moylan’s Ryans Impy stout and preferred the Moylan’s. This one was toned down on the roasted coffee and chocolate flavors (which I prefer in my impy stouts) and turned up on the port wine and sweet sherry flavors (which I like more in my barley wines). Something called a coffee stout should definitely be more coffeeish. Also after the Choklat I had recently was definitely expecting a big coffee presensce. No such luck on this one unfortunately. Don’t get me wrong, it’s in there, just not big and bold.
crowderm (285), Recklinghausen, Germany
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
May 16, 2008 Pours a nice dark brown, with a solid tan head. Aroma is sweet, chocolatey with a bit of coffee. Flavor is more of the same, good chocolate stout character,but not as much coffee as I was looking for. This is a really good stout, but not the great coffee beer I was hoping for.
hillfiiiiire (286), Madison, Wisconsin, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
May 16, 2008 After drinking Choklat yesterday, I expected this to be like eating a coffee bean. I am here to report it is not, and I am a little disappointed by that. Smells sweet, but with no strong coffee! Tastes rather sweet. There is some coffee there, but it’s no stronger than a stout brewed with a malt combination to lend coffee to it. It’s still a good stout, but nothing as great as I had hoped.
ketchepillar (487), Des Moines/Grinnell, Iowa, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
May 16, 2008 Not as java-y as I expected after having the Choklat yesterday. The coffee flavor is good though. It is kinda vinous and consequently has an alcoholic quality. Pretty smooth, low carbonation.
Brewbie (230), New York, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 17/20 |
May 13, 2008 dark, dark, oily pour, nice dark brown head. big coffe aroma, nice heavy coffee and chocolate taste, thick mouth feel, sticky sweet, maybe too much so. gonna take the whole red sox game to finish this one.
incutrav (576), Woodbury, Minnesota, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
May 12, 2008 How anyone detects ANY coffee aroma or flavor in this is beyond me. Lots of roasty toasty-ness, but i felt quite mislead after reading the bottle and making this sound like it had coffee pouring out the seams. Quite good for a impy stout, lots of sweet mollases and fruit flavors,but i was looking for a coffee aspect, and this has no more coffee then an expo or any other RIS.
polomagnifico (535), Saginaw, Michigan, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
May 11, 2008 Big roasted coffee with chocolate malt on the nose. Oily flat and full bodied. Slight hops in the there. Kind of lame and one dimensional. Expected more.
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