t Smisje Catherine The Great Imperial Stout

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

Brown in color with a medium sized off-white head. Aroma is of oak, ash, smoke and fried chinese dumplings. Flavor is of oak and a mild cigar.

Bottle 33 cl. Pours a dark brown with a yellowish white head and a sweet aroma of sweet berries, hops, smoke and sweet malts. The flavour has a lot of sweet malts, but also candy sugar, burned wood and dark chocolate. The finish is boozy almost like one of those supermarket "strong beers". Drinkable, but a bit of a let don.

bottle, pours dark brown with a big tan head. Hoppy nose. Huge biscuit malt flavors, little bit of alcohol and a roasted flavor. This is an enjoyable beer.

208 Bottle - Pours amber with a large offwhite head...aroma is malty, smokey and thin...flavour follows, charred wood, burned grain...well hidden alcohol...not too good...

Lots of Belgian yeast, recognizable as a Regenboog beer. Very dark brown. Fairly dry, lightly roasted with malt, but not very sweet. Probably more of a Belgian strong.

Pours a deep red with a tan head. The aroma is earthy with detectable malt and alcohol. The taste is sort of thin and confusing - it starts out slightly malty and then explodes into overpowering booziness on the end. Color me shocked, but this is a very rare miss from these guys.

Dark brown with a black and tan head. Earthy kelp mineral aromas with blackened malt. Medium body with a frothy mouthfeel. Nice dark chocolate flavor with a candi sugar sweetness. Blackened malts add a touch of dryness to the finish.

Lot of sweet in this stout. But like other Belgian versions of stouts, it is hard to call it a stout. What we call Imperial, the Belgians simply make malty.