Imperial Stout (Barrel Aged)
Mother Earth Brewing in Kinston, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.61
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
750ml bottle at share, vintage 2015 (with Silent Night on the label). Inky black pour with a thin beige head. Roasty malts and chocolate come up in the aroma, along with traces of vanilla.Taste adds a little coffee to the roasty chocolate, and for 9.5% its pretty darn boozy too.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
9-12-2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Many thanks to Erzengel for sharing! A black beer with a mid-sized good lasting tan head. Aroma of sweet dark malt, mild roasted malt, wood, coffee, vanilla. Taste of sweet chocolate, vanilla, cookies, strong roasted malt, a bit sticky, fascinating stuff!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
2011 vintage. Dark deep caramel. Fresh malty, deep and rich. Dried fruit, dark plums with deep and burned caramel. Spices, deep and rich, warming with a fantastic layer of wood in between. Extreme round and smooth, caramel, fresh and round, extreme deep in the aftertaste with dark molasses, not too sweetish, lots of wood fitting in fantastic, round and deep. Excellent brew, well balanced, fantastic deep, rich and full of dark aroma.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
750ml bottle thanks to Chris. Pours out black topped with a tan head. Nose is bourbon barrel chocolate coffee black licorice and spice. Taste is more of the nice bourbon barrel vanilla chocolate some molasses maybe along with the spice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle thanks to Russell. Pours black with small beige head that diminishes to nothing. The aroma is wood, chocolate, bourbon, cracker. Thick body, chewy, dark chocolate, wood, roast, dry finish, good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 10
Bottle [from IP trade with AlexFields, thanks!] @ home shared with Countbeer. Opaque pitch black color, average sized dark brown head that diminishes fairly quickly to a small dark brown head. Aroma is malts, dark malts, chocolate, light roast, heavy bourbon. Taste malts, soft roast, firm bourbon again, chocolate, mocha, oak, initially sweetish but ending with a nice light bitterness. Smooth texture, a bit oily, soft carbonation, medium to full body. Awesome beer. And only 9% ABV? That’s impressive. Absolutely amazing flavors. Absolutely love this beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bouteille 75cl partagée avec Tomaz via trade. Bottled 11/2014. Brune foncée, col crémeux café au lait, doré au verre. Arôme offer un nez doux vanilla, rétor de café, petite note surette avec un accompagenment fruité noir. Retrouve un côté prune confite et belge. Palais est généreux, malté avec un excellent café, touché épicée ajoutant au profil hivernal, malt biscuit. Bourbon est discret ajoutant une certaine douceur persistante. Léger petillant dont la touche finale reste axée sur malt café, finement amer avec une touche de chaleur en fin de bouche.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle on special night - pours black tan head - nose and taste of bourbon, chocolate cookie, dry brownie, vanilla - med body
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
2013 Bottle from brentk56 - thanks!. Pours opaque black, medium deep brown head, creamy and slow to dissipate with nice lacing behind. Aroma is tart(!), oak, bourbon, roast, cocoa. Flavor is very light tart, medium sweet, light bitter, a bit acetic. roasty, cococa. Medium body, creamy mouthfeel. Still a solid beer, but it seems like a weak infection going on.