Terrapin Wake-n-Bake Coffee Oatmeal Imperial Stout

’08 batch, about 6 months old. Wow. pours black with a nose of chocolate and coffee. slight smokiness to this bottle. taste is obvious coffee, but in a very good balance. One fine beer.

Bottle from 2006. Built by Athens, Georgia’s Terrapin Brewing with Jittery Joe’s coffee beans, or so says the label. There is also a cute drawing of a turtle baking cookies and drinking stout - is this beer meant to be consumed along with cookies? Black pour with light, dark lid. Aroma of sweet coffee and alcohol, some gentle hops too. The flavor is medium strength sweet coffee - good coffee too, thanks, Jittery Joe. There are some spunky hops and faint grassy notes, but the coffee dominates, and it tastes good - but I have mixed feelings about using coffee as the basis for a beer. For one thing, both are diuretics. Also, caffeine is a stimulant - do you really want stimulants in your beer? I don’t. Another complaint I have is that this does not seem rich enough to be a true imperial stout. But if you like coffee beers, this is a good one. Another thank you to Adrian.

2008 Bottle from ucusty. Very viscous pour with a slow rising huge, tightly backd dark brown head. Black body. Good lacing. Aroma of toasted and roasted barely, coffee, cinnamon, chocolate and some vanilla. Taste is great, sweet chocolate with a light but noticable alcohol alcohol presence. My sort of stout. Syrupy body with light carbonation.

Fantastic malt but not in the typical beer sense, like a malt shake. A bit thick and with that quality in flavor that is a com thread in good big stotus and porters. Finish dry and stiff. Sweet oatmeal lace and milk choclate in the nose.

Thick, resiny, sinewy, smokey, chocolatey, oatmealy, filling: Terrapin Wake-n-Bake Coffee Oatmeal Imperial Stout.