Brewhouse Rarities: Green Tea Imperial Stout
Flying Dog Brewery in Frederick, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.08
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Location: 750 ml bottle from State Line, 6/13/14
Aroma: The nose is dry roasted malts, some dark chocolate, earth, and some herbal notes
Appearance: It pours a brown-black color with a medium brown head and frothy lace
Flavor: The flavor is mostly roasted and un-sweet chocolate, and a bit of roasty, earthy finish
Palate: The body is medium, leaning light, with an average carbonation, and a lightly dry finish
Overall Impression: This is a decent beer. It has some nice roasted components, and there's a bit of an herbalness, but if you hadn't told me there was green tea in here, I wouldn't have know.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
From notes, consumed on 3/25/13 at ChurchKey during CBC Week. Draft poured into a tasting snifter. Pours black with two fingers of light tan head. Aromas of green tea, caramel, chocolate. Tasting notes of green tea, chocolate, caramel, light dark fruit, light herbs and spices, toffee. Medium body with a semi-dry finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sample at SBWF 2013. Black with a small tan head. Rather soft aroma of roasted malt, chocolate and light herbs. Similar taste with notes of tea in the finish. Medium body and fairly easy to drink. An interesting beer although not an excellent one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
3rd September 2013
Euston Tap. Keg. Opaque dark brown - black beer. Good tan head. Palate is soft and smooth and semi dry. Well there is no mistaking the green tea here, it’s big and bold and errr pretty green tea like! Underneath and quite partitioned off is smooth and semi dry dark malt that is also a little creamy. Finishes smooth and dry. Hmmm - a tough one this! I liked the bigness and the boldness and the invention. Was less fond of the way the green tea and the malt sat apart and never came together as a cohesive whole.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Pours black with dark brown head. Nose and taste of earth, green tea, roasted chocolate malt, cocoa beans, coffee, baked chocolate bread and herbs. The tea on the nose is a little odd, but it blends very seamlessly into the stout in the taste. Interesting and well put together experiment. Full body.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Split a 750ml bottle three-ways. Poured a very rich black color with a medium sized dark tan head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate notes. I wasn’t sold on the green tea at first, but I think this works pretty well in the beer. It’s a bit dark, so the chocolate and roasted malt notes kind of overpower the green tea notes, but a lighter beer might have been "too" green tea. Flavor strikes a pretty good balance between roasted malted notes and the tea. Glad that I was able to split it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Sampled on draft at 3R6P this beer poured a black color with a medium sized dark brown-orange head that lingered and left good lacing. The aroma was toasty, a bit roasty and had faint touches of tea, coffee, vanilla and chocolate. The flavor was somewhat tart with a toasty presence and notes of black licorice, tea and cocoa. Medium length finish of cocoa, toasty malts and licorice. Moderately full bodied and smooth. Decent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Keg at the Rake - London. Pours oily black with a tight, creamy brown head. Aroma holds some dark malts, sugary dark fruits, a bit if algae. Big sweet flavor with some really interesting green tea character coming through. Thankfully there is none of the green tea bitterness; it’s mostly kind of a like an algae type flavor. There is also some sugary dark chocolate, dark cherries, grapes, raspberries, moderate roast, light bitterness. Full bodied average, massaging carbonation. Lightly sticky sweet finish with little alcohol impact, some further algae, sugary chocolate, dark bread, burnt sugars, very light earthy bitterness. A slow starter but this beer finishes strong. I imagine the green tea notes rub some folks the wrong way, but Inam really digging this beer. Creative and nicely realised.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
750 mL bottle from Beer Run. Pours a very dark brown color with a thin dark brown head. Decent head retention. Aroma of roasted malts, coffee chocolate with an herbal hop and tea finish. The taste is roasted malts, licorice, chocolate, tea and a bitter hop finish. Medium bodied. Interesting, but a tad bit cloying.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
From a 75 cl bottle shared with Westchesterco and Ryan. Pour black with a tan head. Aroma of cocoa nibs. Rich and cream mouthfeel. Flavors of chocolate, toasted malts and just a hint of tea. Nice Imperial Stout.