Ale Epeteios Imperial Stout
Left Coast Brewing Company in San Clemente, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.25
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At Left Coast Brewing Co. we pride ourselves in being one of the leading craft brewers. With that being said we would like to celebrate our rich heritage of brewing with Ale Epeteios. This imperial stout anniversary brew is a dark full bodied stout with flavors of dark chocolate and coffee coming from the highest quality imported specialty malts. It is a malty blend followed with a little kick. You’ll feel like you are sipping the nectar of the gods on Mount Olympus. May Zeus smile upon you.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
22oz bomber pours dark with dark brown edges and mocha colored head of foam. The aroma offers up dark roasted malts, earthy coffee, chocolate and sticky musty dried sweetness. The taste seems to go from dark roasted malts to sugary sweetness to earthy dark roasted coffee to chocolate and then into more and more dark roasted coffee notes midway and into the finish. This has a pleasing richness and mouth feel.
Tried
on 10 Aug 2012
at 23:24
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared during RBWG, thanks
Black with a small tan head and some lacing
Roasted malts, roast coffee, dark fruit and milk chocolate. Nice and smooth.
Black with a small tan head and some lacing
Roasted malts, roast coffee, dark fruit and milk chocolate. Nice and smooth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2012
at 21:10
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle as shown shared at RBWG 2012. Pours a dark brown with beige head leaving spotty lacing. The aroma is chocolate and nuts. Thin mouthfeel with a smokey malt and roast with a lingering dry finish. A good Imperial stout from Left Coast.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2012
at 18:58
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Dark brown, nearly black - impressive tan lace - a lot of bakers chocolate in the nose, as well as vanilla bean and espresso - some spicy alcohol - quite thin for the style, especially in the finish, which is particularly thin, even for a "non-imperial" stout - very dry and tart flavor - bitter chocolate and espresso bean flavor - a bit of char - a bit woody in the finish - thin finish allows a lot of alcohol to punch through, leaving a long-lingering booziness in the mouth - meh.
Tried
on 10 Jul 2011
at 19:46
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bomber from Beverages 4 Less in Santee, CA. Pours really black with a dark tan foamy head. Aroma is heavily dark chocolate. Full bodied. Flavor is very chocolate. Very. The coffee is present, but the chocolate is much more present. And it has a nice amount of bitter to offset the malt. Makes me think of chocolate fudge over a mix of chocolate and coffee ice cream. The chocolate is so dark, it suggests unsweetened baking chocolate. Can’t recall so much chocolate in an ale. Brilliant.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Dec 2010
at 20:04
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours with an ink like body with just as much head as you would expect from ink. That said a swirl coats the glass with a nice brown-iodine hue. Aromas of chocolate, fudge, currants, dark fruit, vanilla and licorice, acidic coffee and bread. Huge vanilla bean, cocoa, coffee and alcohol nose, with a nice sweet bready backbone. Flavors of are lightly salty and lightly nutty with a lot of bread and chocolate, some coffee grounds too. High attenuation for a stout of this size. Essentially flat sadly. Thick body. Would be much better if it had any carbonation north of cask levels.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Nov 2010
at 21:54