t Smisje Catherine The Great Imperial Stout

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

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.

11.2oz Belgian "grenade" style bottle. Murky, muddy brown-black color with a nice foamy head. Brown sugary sweet and very, very smooth, this one is a classic. 3.3 rating, WTF, this beer outclasses many of the high rated Imperial Stouts. It doesn’t, however, really have to many traditional stout-like qualities. A little light on the chocolate malt baby! Imperial Brown Ale? Nonetheless this is a seriously impressive beer, very tasty stuff.

Pours a hazlenut brown with an enormous fizzy light brown head. It has a very Belgian aroma with yeast, overripe fruit and a hint of roasted malt and chocolate. Tastes spicy and creamy with notes of caramel, toffee, wood and chocolate and a nice earthy bitter end. These Belgian imperial stouts are new for me, and I like them. Very satisfying, full bodied and creamy. The alcohol is well hidden.

Dark brown color, big head, reducing fast. Moderate Belgian aroma, with light chocolate. Good body strength, with a very good mix of caramel flavor, some chocolate, rubharb candies, fair sweetnss, strong bitterness, alcohol bite. Solid and well balanced. Excellent.

bottle courtesy of fata, thank you! talk about liquid bread, the hell with giunny! this stuff pours thick and opaque brown with some lil crusty, floury floaties. the nose is of dough, lots of dough! sweet with vanilla and butterscotch extracts, some hop flour dust. the taste is full on fresh dough, a hint of cinnamon, with a very present hop bitterness in the back. the mouthfeel is super, super full, chewy, and creamy. it lingers and makes you want a drink of water to wash it down. nice.

Bottle.33cl. Large rocky head, murky color, roasted nutty aroma. Full body. moderat sweetness. fine bitterness.

Super cool miketd bonused this to me, right on. It poured with a brown color, but that did not phase me much, I am not looking for the prototypical Impy with this beer. The head was humongous though, all thick and bubbly and very Belgian. The aroma is sweet Belgian yeast dough brownies with chocolate chip highlights. Taste is not as central on the sweet brownie chocolate but turns into a light brown sugar sweetness. A thicker mouthfeel with some reduced carbonation (weird when looking at the large head). Absolutely no sense of alcohol, low on hops and bitterness. For me its another Regenboog hit and another Belgian Strong masquerading as an Imperial Stout success.
33cL bottle, Rodenbach smaller tulip glass, thanks again Mike.

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.