Weyerbacher Old Heathen

Brewed by Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial Stout
Easton, Pennsylvania USA

Big thanks to LittleBreeze on BA for the bottle!
Pours oily, thick black with a big tan creamy head after a violent pour. Notes of Dry cocoa, rich dark roastiness, faint hint of alcohol as it warms, and some nutty, oaty sweetness as well. Very nice. Taste is nicely dark roasted, with drying cocoa powder notes. Again a touch of alcohol that is unobtrusive. Body is a bit more carbonated than expected but subdues after a bit and the beer is still thick and nice. Overall this is a great beer that surpassed my expectations.

12 oz. bottle. Pours dark black with chocolate head, creamy and small. Roast and chocolate nose with some hops. Also some dark fruit, mailny plum and raisin. Great roasty character, chocolate and light fruit. Dry hop finish with some coffee notes, bittered pretty well. Alcohol is masked, but shows up a bit in the finish, right there with the hops. The after is straight coffee, dry and mouth-puckering. Mouthfeel is a bit lacking, medium-watery, not thick and viscous. Carbonation helps it out a bit. I would have to say, though, that its my only complaint. Not a bad beer, but lacks a bit of complexity to put it in the top-tier Impy Stouts. Drinkable, and is definately a repeat.

12 oz. bottle, no bottling/freshness date, sampled in a snifter. Poured a lush looking blackish brown, like crude oil, with a robust tan head that settled into a thin sudsy lacing, light amount of sticking. A rich smelling nose of dark malts and fruits, mocha coffee, caramel, roasted grains, plums and raisins. Hints of orangey hops hang out at the edges and the alcohol is a barely noticeable estery. Smooth and thick feeling body with an oily slickness on the tongue, this is one easy, velvety sipper. Delectable malty tastes of charred grains, dark chocolate and mild dark earthy coffee. The alcohol meshes with the plum and raisin fruitiness for a steady low temperature warmth in the mouth. The hops are properly subdued, just light traces of citric orange and a soft leafy bitterness in the finish. An very enjoyable Imperial Stout, tasty, smooth and balanced, perfect for a cold December night.

12oz bottle. Aroma of roasted malt, anise and semisweet chocolate. Pours opaque brown with dark amber highlights. A creamy khaki head fades fairly quickly but leaves decent lacing. Lots of roasted sweetness on the palate. A hint of bitter coffee, bitter chocolate and anise. Fairly astringent bitterness. Medium boded with a bitter roasted finish.

For the style The beer is sweet and the sweetness lingers. The palatte is also quite nice, a little too astringenttones The head is avery nice red brown over the darkclear beer. Carbonation is good but not overpowering. It has no noticeabl;e hop finish like Stormking, just a sweetness that lingers. One nice feature is the alcohol never surfaces though the beer is 8%

Bottle at Toms Ultimate Glasgow Tasting: Poured a Black with a light brown head. Aroma is sweet candy and roasted malt. The taste is roasted coffee with a slightly smoked fruit finish with bitterness.

Bottle at ultimate glasgow tasting. Aroma is madria, mead, toffee malts and tart fruits. Taste is very intence roasty mead sweetness, but theres a hint of tart darker fruits that make it quite nice.

Bottle at Toms Ultimate Glasgow Tasting ... Deep black ... little iodine in a sweet nose ... Rich smooth roast malts but again iodine. I thought this had been stored in a whisky cask.