Brauerei Lemke Imperial Stout

Imperial Stout

 

Brauerei Lemke in Berlin, Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪

  Stout - Imperial Regular
Score
7.29
ABV: 11.0% IBU: 75 Ticks: 70
A sophisticated beer for the advanced connoisseur. It was once brewed by the English as a gift for the Russian tsarina. Today craft brewers all over the world enjoy this style because it allows them to live out all their creativity. We do this by stuffing our Imperial Stout with hops and storing it in barriques for six months before bottling it.

Vanilla and herbs, especially thyme, mingle. A gentle oily impression is followed by pine and a reoccurring herbal bouquet of thyme. The finish is soft but dry with lingering aromas of wood and black pepper.
 

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7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 9
Bottle at home. Black with tan head. Big sweet roasted chocolate malts, charcoal, fresh oak wood, resin, molasses, licorice, cherries, vanilla. Massive sweet and moderate bitter. Full body and very sticky feel with soft carbonation. --- Beer merged from original tick of Imperial Stout on 25 Dec 2017 at 22:52 - Score: 8. Original review text: 3.9
Tried from Bottle on 06 Aug 2017 at 15:57

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottled @ sopp 2017. Poured near black with a thin brown head. Aroma has roastedness, dark berries, roast and vinous notes. Flavor has roastedness, coffee notes, vinous notes, mild tartness. 736313
66cl bottle @ ISKTR 2017. Poured dark brown color with a thin off white head. Vinous notes, mild funkyness in aroma. Flavor has vinous notes, funk, malts. Bit off. I will leave the rating as it is though.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Jul 2017 at 13:28

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
33 cl bottle thanks to Lea (non ratebeer), sampled on May 22, 2017. BB 20.07.17.Slight hazy very dark brown to black color, smallish light brown head with hints of lacing. Sweet, malty, grainy, alcohol, some faint raisins scent. Sweet, malty, caramel, raisins taste. Sweet, bitter, alcohol, grainy, raisins aftertaste. Smooth full mouthfeel, medium high bitterness.
Tried from Bottle on 22 May 2017 at 14:09

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle 660ml. at [ Pre-Borefts Ratebeer Tasting ] @ Deanso’s place (former ABC Beers), Korte Koediefstraat 5 Den Haag, Netherlands 2511CE. [ As Lemke Imperial Stout ].Clear dark black brown colour with a large, frothy - creamy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, dark malt, roasted, sweet malt, licorice, light alcohol, light wood - tart wood. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, roasted, dark malt. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20160922] 8-4-7-4-15
Tried from Bottle on 14 Apr 2017 at 01:40

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle at Erzbierschof MC. Pours dark brown. Aroma is very sweet, some roast malts, candy like. Body is heavy, sweet, but there’s not a whole lot of flavours. Palate is sweet, but still no flavours. Disappointing.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Apr 2017 at 14:48

7.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Tap at the brewpub. Beer in the glass deep black, almost no head. Heavy malty aroma. Starts intense malty, oily, not as strong as exspected. Finish more alcoholic, warming, not as roasty-malty as other Imperial Stouts. Warming, well balanced finish. Nice!
Tried from Draft on 03 Apr 2017 at 11:23

8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 6 Overall 8
Draft at the source. Dark brown color, brown head. Nice aroma of vanilla, dark fruit, dark roast coffee. Taste is fruity coffee, more vanilla, dark unsweetened cocoa. Delicious.
Tried from Draft on 16 Mar 2017 at 08:46

8.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Proeverij bij de brouwerij in Berlijn. Vijg, kruidig, kers, vanille, zuren, zwarte peper, beetje Schneider Weisse Mein Aventinus. (2-2017).
Tried from Draft at Brauhaus Lemke am Schloß on 18 Feb 2017 at 20:07

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottled. Deep brown colour with a mediumsized beige head. Aroma is roasted malts, some ripe fruit, raisins, alcohol and some liquorice to it. Flavour is quite similar with some herbs, mild coffee and some nice fudgelike notes. Alcohol does kick in quite much in the finish, making it rather sweet.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Oct 2016 at 12:28

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
660ml bottle at home. Appearance is completely black with some head which dissipates quickly though. Not too much carbonation, mocha coloured foam. Aroma is unusual for an impy, especially the sour aroma. This makes it rather refreshing. Apart from this there are dark malts and some spiciness. Flavour is similar (and similarly unusual!). Sour and quite bitter, thick mouthfeel, quite refreshing, spicy and very herbal. Weird imperial stout but kinda grows on you!
Tried from Bottle on 20 Oct 2016 at 18:27