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Aroma: Sweet ripe fruits with tangy notes. Flavour: Fruity and sugary sweet with citrus. Aftertaste is very sweet and bitter. Colour: Golden amber with a white head. From: Can.

Can from Beer Republic. Clear dark golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, fruity and moderate hoppy - citrus. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Sweet and rather bitter finish. Too sweet. 271121

From a 473ml can on 15/2/2021. Pours a clear deep golden with a smallish head. The nose is dank, fruity and hoppy, though not huge when considering the size of the beer. Taste wise, it's bold and intense (and one would expect from an 11 per center). There's a big caramel malt backbone, sweet tropical and stone fruit (mango and peach), with a big, dank, resiny bitterness countering, followed by a smidge of warming booze at the back. The mouthfeel slick and syrupy, the carbonation moderate. An enjoyable big sipper, but not for the faint hearted.

473ml can. Clear, orangey golden colour with small to average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Piney, citrusy and fruity hoppy, as well as caramel malty aroma, notes of 'Trolli Pfirsichringe', some lemon, grapefruit, a perfumed touch of pine needles and a spicy touch of liquorice. Taste is sweet and bitter, caramel malty and piney, citrusy, fruity and resinous hoppy, pine, resin and liquorice in the foreground, citrusy middle layer with hints of lemon, lemon zest, some grapefruit, grassy, bitter and mineral basic layer, caramel malty socle, cautious peach and mango interludes; lingering, bitter and minimally warming, alcoholic finish. Oily texture, smooth and soft, minimally sticky/sticking (greasy oily not cloying) palate, fine, soft, but efficacious carbonation. Very clean, slightly restricted fruitiness, rather condensed hoppiness - Imperial indeed.