Terrapin Wake-n-Bake Coffee Oatmeal Imperial Stout

Brewed by Terrapin Beer Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Athens, Georgia USA

Bottle. Pours black with a small dark brown head. Aroma os dark chocolate and coffee. Dark chocolate flavor, followed by alcohol. Finishes bittersweet.

This beer is black as they come, 2-stroke oil is an accurate descriptor of its body color. Lovibond-wise this is a >25, easily in the deepest tier of dark. During the pour the beer produced no head, and only when it was immediately finished pouring did it yield a resemblence of a head, welling up for a second with brown effervescence before returning to flat pitch. The taste is very complex, with flavors ranging from dark chocolate, milk chocolate, nutty flavors, to mild espresso, the beer picks up a licorice flavor, with a comparison on par with the non-alcoholic flavors of opal nera sambuca. The aromas very much match the flavors, the dominant notes are the chocolate and roasted nuts. The flavors create a very inviting desire to sample this black bevy. As the beer comes to its desired temperature it’s aroma enhances and picks up some licorice. The beer is rich and velvety, very creamy, not too astringent, and not at all overpowering. The beer leaves the feel and afterthoughts of a chocolate covered espresso bean in your mouth, of course without the grit in your gums.

One of the best beers I’ve ever tasted - like an oatmeal cookie dipped in an espresso - with a long lasting lacy head and a full bodied flavor - get one if you can

(08 in 09) Pours dark brown almost black with brown lacing head. Aromas of (you guessed it!) coffee and oats with a roasty malt. Flavors start with a sweet roasted malt/ oat combo quickly overpowered by burnt coffee grains and soft sweet oat on the finish(full-bodied). Coffee bitterness remains on the palate. Nothing too complex but pretty tastey.

Flavor is big coffee w/ hints of cola and dark chocolate with a lingering pleasant sourness. Slightly high carbonation with a creamy mouthfeel that mildly coats.

pure coffee aroma, some espresso .. . don’t spread and smoke .. . medium head .. . do you know jade .. . slick 100k .. . . clean and sweet for such a robust brew, a coffee addicts dream. . alright! now off to beer wars!

pours black with a centimeter light brown head. wow. really nice. aroma is chocolate chip cookie dough, wood, coffee, cocoa, brownies, sweet flavor. cocoa. extemely well balanced. smooth, creamy mouthfeel. this beer is a dessert, but would go great with or without any meal. fucking sweet beer. i want more of this! Thanks Santa for this tightassed Reeb

Poured black as night with a thin dark head and smelled divinely of coffee. Taste was deep molasses with mocha...very rich and satisfying.