X Imperial Stout
(has 3 batches)
Mikkeller in Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark 🇩🇰
Stout - Imperial Special|
Score
8.29
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7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught @ Mikkeller & Friends. Vintage 2014, 14.9%. Aroma has truffles, dark chocolate, some deep roastiness and coffee. Flavour has lots of salty licorice, some herbal tones and coffee. So salty and herbal that I almost can taste nothing else. Hides the ABV very well, unbelievable that this has almost 15%.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Apr 2014
at 11:06
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at Mikkeller&Friends. Black pour, small tan film. Aroma is dark, coffee and black currant. Sticky, syrupy mouthfeel. Very sugary, more black currant with sharp, bitter zing. Heavy, tough, but fascinating.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Apr 2014
at 14:06
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
bottle, 2013 version. very, very dark, very smooth brown head. Aroma of hard roasted malts, sugar, dried dark fruits,licorice. quite complex aroma. Flavor is very sweet, roasted malts, licorice, chocolate, warming feeling due to the high alc. , quite smooth, slighlty weird bitterness, the high alc. seems to play in here in a not-so-elegant way. aftertaste s alc and roasted malts.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2014
at 16:17
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle split at Scopey’s 5K Extravaganza of Oompah Band meets doorbell music, thanks to Ken, Josh, Paul and myself but most of all Paul cos it was his day and he ordered it - 15/02/14. Light black with moderate tan edgeing. Nose is dark dark chocolate, light booze, chocolate biscuits, molasses, chocolate maltesers, earthy hop backnotes, burnt sugars. Taste comprises dark chocolate, dark fruits, molasses, burnt toffee, light smoke, brown sugars, dark toffee fudge, lick’o’booze. Full bodied, fine carbonation, sweet closure but not OTT, lightly warming close. Solid big ABV impy, alcohol pretty well integrated for the ABV, but not top 50 for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Feb 2014
at 11:38
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Mikkeller beer shop. It pours opaque black with a small bubbly tan head. The nose is rich roast, tangy dark fruits, milk chocolate, black currant jam, umami and salted caramel. The taste is sweet, oily, chocolate, treacle, toast, fudge, toffee, brown sugar, candy, cherry brandy, alcohol, chocolate gateaux with a sweet, oily finish. Full body, fine carbonation and oily mouth-feel. Big, rich and oily. A bit sweet and cloying for my liking, but a flavoursome beer anyhow.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Feb 2014
at 07:22
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle at Deans Winter Shelter Tasting. Poured a murky dark mahogany with a round bubbly tan head. The aroma is rich fruit liquorice vanilla. The flavour is medium to strong bitter moderate sweet with a super rich smooth liqourice fruit vanilla roast malt dark chocolate palate. Fully bodied with flat carbonation and a big oily mouthfeel. Truly amazing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2013
at 13:45
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled from bottle @ Deans Winter Shelter Tasting. Thanks kermis! Opaque pitch black color, virtually no head. Aroma has malts, some sweetness, lightly wood, loads off vanilla. Taste malts, chocolate, lightly sweetness, wood, lots of vanilla again, decently bitter. Lovely beer but for me too much vanilla.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2013
at 13:40