Southern Tier Jah-va

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

22oz bottle from Secret Santa summer 07. Real good sweet chocolate aroma on the nose. Black body with dark tan head. Flavor is a thick rich dose of creamy chocolate and roasted malts. Had some alcohol bitterness in the mix but not a big factor. Body warming was cggod seeing it was a cool damp foggy morning in the desert. Thanks John from Pa. Only santa havn’t really figured out who it was.

Bottle. Pours inky black with a thin dark yellow/brown head. Aroma is huge wallop of espresso, dark chocolate, peat, burnt sugar, molasses. Flavor profile matches the aroma, more espresso, molasses, burnt suger, chocolate. Palate is massive, sans carbonation, finishes on the bitter side, with a huge, sticky, syrupy mouthfeel. Awesome.

Black with thick, creamy dark chocolate head. Aroma and flavor is rich roasted coffee, dark chocolate, brown suger and alcohol. Body is rich and thick and lays heavy on the palate. Nice alcohol warming kick.

Bottle pours a clear deep black with a modest brown head. Strong sweet chocolate and cofee aroma. Flavors of tootsie roll, coffee and the bite of plenty of IBUs. Still quite sweet and tons of roasted flavor. Delicious.

pours a thick, oily black/brown with a tannish brown head. head is thin. aroma is green coffee beans, roasty dark chocolate, some dark fruits and rich, rich fudgy chocolate. taste is similar to the aroma with lots of coffee beans, almost straight espresso, less of the chocolate flavor and a strong roasty quality. this one might be really good with age. thick, oily mouthfeel with a bitter finish. alcohol is there, it adds a very sweet quality to it. imagine making a batch of espresso that was twice the normal potency and drinking it straight. very nice, i feel. i notice the kahlua that others have pointed out. i really think this would get MUCH better with a year or two of aging.

Bottle. WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!! Pours a deep opaque almost black with a brownish head, small in size but thick in density. Huge aroma of roasted malts, coffee, and dark cocoa. Flavor is also huge, coffee and bitter dark chocolate flavors dominate, but ther is a hop bitterness right in there as well. This beer is AWESOME!

Vintage 2005 Pours opaque black with barely translucent mahogany edgework. Barely a trace of head steps up, and brown in color. Aromatics are a blend of dark chocolate and rich, oily coffee beans. Akin to a fudge-spiked espresso atop an imperial stout sundae. Certainly imperial in nature, and lucious. Mouthfeel is velvety smooth, rich and thick. The pallet is massively laden with chocolate syrup and rich coffee. The coffee essence is not of a "grounds" nature, but a well brewed, strong, and non-astringent variety. Alcohol is warming, but negligent behind the enormous flavor profile. Finishes with lingering Hershey’s syrup, Kona roast beans, and Kahlua. Super decadent and very well integrated after two-plus years. Well worth the wait if you can sit on this one. This flavor of this beer blows the doors off the Mikkeller Black Hole I had over the weekend.

wow amazing pour pitch black nice mocha color brown foam , nose is alcohol, choc,coffee, really good. taste is great big roasted coffee some dark fruit some choc and still some alcohol, big malty flavors great great beer