t Smisje Catherine The Great Imperial Stout

Brewed by Brouwerij De Regenboog
Style: Imperial Stout
Assebroek-Brugge, Belgium

The aroma is weak with sugar, yeast, rye like malt, and lots of hops. The appearance is nice with a red brown color and a large tan head. Sadly it looks nothing like a stout. The flavor is not very good because its too bitter for a stout in a hoppy way. The palate is thin for a stout.

Courtsey of Fishingnet. Pours cloudy.with thin brownish head. Taste : fruity, malty, light coffee flavor, some hop bitteness, and lightly roasted aftertaste. Pretty hard to pin point it as an imp stout, had too much carbonation.

Bottle pours out a brown topped with a san head. Aroma of roast, sweetness and some spice. Taste of pit fruit, roast, and a little sweetness.

Pours dark brown/near black with a mostly receding tan head. Aroma of mild roast, pepper, anise, dark vanilla, and chocolate. Tastes of dark chocolate, roasted amlts, plum, rye and rum. Full to heavy bodied with lush carbonation. Yum.

Bottle received via trade with dchmela. Pours hazy dark brown with a large, frothy, light brown head, mostly lasting with excellent lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (cookie, caramel, chocolate, nutty), light hops (herbs), average yeast (dough, leather, earth) with notes of prune, date, apple, and brown sugar. Full bodied, creamy texture, lively carbonation, and a chalky finish. Average duration, moderate sweetness, light acidity and bitterness.

Bottle from Wine & Cheese Place in (near) St. Louis, MO. Dark brown color (not quite opaque) with a humongous multi-finger tan head. Aroma is rather smoky, like a scotch ale. Near medium body with chewy carbonation. Flavor is smoky malt. There are some fruit notes - not dark fruit. More like light stone fruits and ripe tropicals. It’s quite spicy. Interesting. More of a smoky strong ale than a stout. Thins into the finish and leaves with faint sweetness. No doubt that it’s from Belgium.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown color with red highlights, big cotton candy like whit ehead. Plenty of lacing on the glass. Very spicy nose, dark fruit, some slight smoke, very subdued overall. Spicy chocolate flavors, some dry yeast, malty, full of banana and some tropical fruits. And...some soap. Lovely. How in God’s name is this an imperial stout? Interesting. Tasty, but hard to enjoy because the oddity of it.

Muddy brown color with a tan head. Flavor is very fruity with just a hint of chocolate. Boozy finish. Not a stout at all by any stretch.