Coveted black velvety medium-to-full body maintains lingering dark chocolate richness and everlasting black coffee roast, balancing bitter hop-charred nuttiness with sweet mocha-molasses malting quite efficiently. Fluffy carbolic froth nearly prohibits creamy eclair subsidy, mild cocoa bean niche and fleeting vanilla variance. Try for dessert instead of Hershey’s Chocolate.
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CLOWN SHOES BLAECORN UNIDRAGON RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STOUT
Domineering full-bodied Imperial Stout with impressive 12.5% alcohol range, gooey anise spicing and indelible vanilla-creamed mocha malting given hop-charred wood burn. Chewy caramel-sugared cookie dough yeast, bittersweet dark-roasted chocolate serenade and coconut buttering saturate ascending coffee bean bitterness. Aggressive bourbon-burgundy rush, syrupy Scotch motif and chocolate liqueur nip linger through illustrious maple-syrupy Blackstrap molasses richness.
KEUKA RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STOUT
(THORNBRIDGE) SAINT PETERSBURG IMPERIAL RUSSIAN STOUT
Convincing lactic-soured cocoa malt entry pushed aside for chewy brown chocolate creaminess and soy-milked coffee splash. Sturdy mocha theme reinforced by molasses-draped oats, peanut-shelled walnut and mossy peat as well as tertiary dark-fruited raisin, fig and black cherry nuances.
JOLLY PUMPKIN MADRUGADA OBSCURA DARK DAWN IMPERIAL STOUT
On tap at Cloverleaf, amiable oak barrel-aged dark ale brings acidic brettanomyces funk and pungent sour fruiting to rawest Blackstrap molasses inclination. Oaken cherry, white grape, green grape and cranberry tartness deepens acrid barnyard-horsehide parch. Briny salting saturates ancillary wood burnt hop char, depleting powdered cocoa drift.
LOST ABBEY SERPENT’S IMPERIAL STOUT
LEINENKUGEL BIG EDDY IMPERIAL STOUT
Richly viscous full body goes beyond stylistic mocha theme with its oaken bourbon-burgundy wining, coffee-roasted dried fruiting and cocoa-dried butterscotch notch. Creamy dark chocolate expectancy, sinewy molasses-smoked maple malting and luscious vanilla sweetness sidle prune-soured black cherry tartness. Tertiary blackberry, black grape and boysenberry illusions tilt Big Eddy towards sour end. Cedar-burnt wood tone reinforces caramelized brown sugar glaze.
POINT WHOLE HOG RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STOUT
Worthy 2011 limited release brings rich chocolate-caked creaminess and molasses-sapped toffee sweetness to roasted hop char. Brown-sugared Belgian chocolate spicing, variable vanilla verve and minor coffee roasting affect ancillary bourbon-barleywine boozing.
CRICKET HILL BARREL AGED RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STOUT
CRICKET HILL RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STOUT
Seductively robust full body anchored by coffee-roasted black chocolate richness. Sweet vanilla aspect sidles rich mocha theme as persistent Black Forest caking reaches summit. Ancillary black cherry, blackberry and black currant illusions provide further luster.
BOULEVARD DARK TRUTH STOUT
Robust Imperial Stout gains smoked molasses malting above dark chocolate richness, black licorice waver and coffee-roasted espresso smidgen. Soured prune-fig-plum conflux heightens musty Muscat-wined burgundy, bourbon, sherry and Merlot musk. Rye, soy and cocoa nibs illusions deepen resolve but, as with its earthen wining, strays from stylistic mocha-bound perimeters.
VICTORY DARK INTRIGUE
Smoothly exemplary bourbon-barreled version of excellent Storm King Imperial Stout brings chewy molasses malting and peat whiskey waft to softly creamed cocoa-buttered black chocolate setting. Oaken vanilla laces sweet blackberry-brandied Kahlua, crème de cocoa and pureed cherry illusions to soothing bourbon finish. A marvelous nightcap.