Kuhnhenn Brewing Company American Imperial Stout

American Imperial Stout

 

Kuhnhenn Brewing Company in Warren, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Imperial Rotating
Score
7.83
ABV: 12.9% IBU: - Ticks: 30
An American example of an English style of beer made for the Russian Royals. This ale deep black in color, finally released after being aged for 16 months. Made using large amounts of malt and roasted barley yields the most robust beer we make. Thick coffee like flavor and aroma. This beer is well hopped and finishes bitter. This is a real treat
 

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8.8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

Bottle received in trade. Thank you rfraga7! 2012 vintage. Pours oily pitch black with a rather big frothy and creamy dark chocolate brown head that leaves a small trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is malty, earthy and tiny fruity with heavily roasted malts, salty liquorice candy, burnt wood, burnt raisins, black currants, blackberries, caramel, soil, oatmeal cookies, resin, pine needles, alcohol, liquorice, bitter chocolate, dark roast coffee and grapefruit rinds. Taste is slightly sweet, heavy bitter and malty with heavily roasted malts, bitter chocolate, burnt wood, burnt caramel, blackberries, bilberries, burnt caramel, raisins, prunes, resin, salty liquorice candy, grapefruit rinds and dark roast coffee. Mouthfeel is soft, creamy, tiny roasted astringent, tiny boozy and full bodied. Finish is bitter and malty with heavily roasted malts, burnt caramel, burnt wood, bilberries, blackberries, oatmeal cookies, salty liquorice candy, soil and alcohol. Very nice smooth and heavy imperial stout…

Tried from Bottle on 29 Jan 2014 at 12:41


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle, 2012 vintage 9.25% ABV. Aroma is full of rich dark chocolate, light roast and quite a bit of dark fruit. Cherry, plum and prune are most noticeable. Light tobacco and leather character. Pours black with a moderately small, thick, dark mocha head the recedes somewhat quickly to the edges. Flavor has a sweet, rich dark chocolate character. Medium roast with a bit of ash. Moderate leather and tobacco notes. Quite a bit of cherry, berry and plum fruit character. Some lingering leather, roast and chocolate. Medium bitterness. Mouthfeel is medium full bodied with medium carbonation. A touch of astringency and medium low alcohol warmth. Overall a fairly good stout, especially if you like ones with a leather character. Nice balance of fruit to even out the leather and ash. Good complexity in the chocolate character. Not much hops which I suppose isn’t surprising considering its from 2012.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Nov 2013 at 23:20


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle 12fl.oz. @ [ Craig and Fin Sneak up in the middle of the NIGHT and drink all fonefans beer ].Dark black colour with a average, creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige to light brown head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, coconut, dark roasted, alcohol. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, roasted, sweet malt, chocoalte. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20130519]

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jul 2013 at 10:39


8.5
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle: Poured a pitch-black color stout with a large dark brown foamy head with good retention and some good lacing. Aroma of creamy medium-dark chocolate notes with light floral coffee notes with some roasted malt notes but limited bitterness. Taste is quite spectacular with great creamy medium-dark chocolate notes with some floral dry coffee notes, some lactose notes and some medium dry bitter roasted malt to finish. Body is full with luscious creamy texture with good carbonation and no apparent alcohol. Quite a balanced experience with loads of flavours while retaining some good amount of drinkability.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Jul 2013 at 10:29


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Thanks to my sister for snagging me one of these as the 2005/2006 release of this beer I traded away my only bottle. So glad to finally get to try it. The 12oz bottle pours with deep darkness and supporting a mocha colored head. The aroma offers up dark roasted malts, black strap molasses, dark chocolate and a bit of booze at the end of the draw. The taste is similar with black strap molasses, dark roasted malts, some burnt malts and brown sugar sweetened pine hops. The roasty to burnt goodness is hitting the spot right now. Man, I have been waiting a real long time for this. It was well worth the wait. This is dynamite.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Jul 2013 at 21:37


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

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Tried on 19 May 2013 at 16:12


8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

bottle at Jans ... deep black ... thin tan head ... soft rich ... deep chocolate ... roast malt nose ... dark roast ... heavy roast ... big dark chocolate ... light bitter chocolate ... sweet front ... biter chocolate linger ... little vanilla

Tried from Bottle on 19 May 2013 at 16:10


8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

12 oz. bottle, pours a silky black as night with a miniscule brown head. Aroma is full of dark roasted malt, significant molasses, moderate espresso and a touch of liqueur. Flavour is extremely woody and roasted predominantly - with very dry wood (not the barrel aged type), dry roasted malts, and a touch of espresso - none of the aforementioned chocolate or liqueur - with a woody and quite hoppy, bitter, dry finish. Silky smooth palate, with an element of harshness from the hops. No detection of the high ABV at all. Excellent stuff here.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Feb 2013 at 21:02


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

bottle at papsoe pitch dark, thick , almost no head. lots of caramel and also some oxidation , roasted malts, toffee. flavor is rosated malts, sweet sugary note, good balance.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Apr 2012 at 12:13


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

12 fl oz bottle. Pours pitch black with a fully gone head. Aroma is smooth dark malty and alcohol presence. Smooth dark malty, light fruity and thick malty. Alcohol, thick dark chocolate and dense roasted malty. Sweet. Sugarish and dextrose finish, thick syrupy malty.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Apr 2012 at 11:53