Stone Imperial Russian Stout

Brewed by Stone Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial Stout
Escondido, California USA

Bottle. Pours black with an attractively fluffy tan head. The aroma also quite good; coffee, bitter chocolate and malts. Tastes of the same, in addition to the hops and yeast, maybe some licorice. With wonderful beers like these, Stone is quickly becoming my favorite American craft brewery.

[bomber - 2006] Black pour with a mild tan head - not much carbonation - decent lacing. Aroma of roasty malt a bit of licorice and some alcohol on the nose. It’s a heavy beer over the tongue, rich, sweet but hot.

This is a great imperial stout. Pours dark with nice retention. Roasted malt and coffee hits it off. It really is better the warmer it gets, I love this beer!!

Fantastic Russian Imperial Stout. Gorgeous notes of heavy malt, chocolate, coffee, black liquerish and caramel. Poured into a Youngs pint glass. Killer head, the head evens to the end of the glass and builds up. Really cool. I like this. It is also a thick creamy head although there is not much to it. Taste is hoppy, malty, yeasty in abundance. Like someone put 300% the normal allocation lots. The taste is smooth; creamy, chocolatey almost like chocolate brownie. There are German black liquerish notes too. The real liquerish if you ask me. The hard style. I can also sense caramel and marzepan. A fantastic beer. Awesome for the winter and one to age. Colour pour is black thick oozing tar. This is a fantastic premium beer. The warmth you get after every sip is second to none. An old English ale style warmth so heads up for managing that. I’m trying to descirbe this but it is a powerful beverage. Alcohol is 10.5%abv but I feel I could drink a few of these. I can never thank the Rake people enough for providing me with Stone. I love stout and this is the REAL DEAL. Thank you, Stone. A killer if not sessionable beer. Enjoy it with pork; beef, sausages and extrremely strong cheese. Oh love the story notes. More breweries should take note. Seek out and store. This should age well indeed.

Bottle. Pours black as coal. Tastes just like the description. Heavy, thick coffee, chocolate, spicy and very tasty. Great beer.

Bomber from dkachur, served at cellar temperature in a snifter glass.

App.: Deep brown-black with a frail mocha head. Aroma: Lots of big deep espresso-roast coffee beans and dark chocolate, some inky molasses, resinous hops, lighter, more playful chocolate/vanilla notes, a touch of bad phenolics (band-aid?), some dark dried fruits, black licorice, a touch of meaty/briny savouriness, a wee hint of acidity. Palate: Medium-full body, basically flat, but not in a bad way, smooth and creamy. Flav.: Vinous coffee, some dark chocolate, dark dried fruits, light vanilla, licorice and black strap molasses abound, soy sauce/savoury, some resinous hops, light nuttiness; reasonably sweet and quite bitter with some warming alcohol and plenty of oily malts and light organic acids that stick around. The aftertaste will be with me in the office tomorrow.

This is a big boy beer.

Draft. Dark body with thin tan head. Coffee bean aroma... flavor filled with sweet roasted malts and chocolate, cream with a bitter alcohol aftertaste