Imperial Stout
Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.17
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Made with Highly roasted malted barley, and plenty of it, to give the beer an uncommon richness and smoky, roasty depth. Just the way the 18th century Russian royalty liked it.
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8/10
Tried
on 09 Feb 2015
at 08:37
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
22 ounce bottle into snifter, bottled on 9/2/2014. Pours pitch black color with a 2 finger dense and fluffy tan head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice dense soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Aromas of dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, toast, toffee, dark bread, molasses, light nuttiness, light dark fruit, light char, herbal, and roast/toasted earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roasted/bready malt, earthy hop, and light dark fruit notes; with good strength. Taste of big dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, toast, toffee, dark bread, molasses, light nuttiness, light dark fruit, light char, herbal, and roasted/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/roasted bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, toast, toffee, dark bread, molasses, light nuttiness, light dark fruit, light char, and herbal/roasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Damn nice complexity and robustness of dark/roasted/bready malt, earthy hop, and light dark fruit flavors; with a great roasted bitterness/sweetness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light-medium carbonation and medium-full bodied; with a very smooth, moderately creamy, and lightly sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is well hidden with only a light warming present after the finish. Overall this is a damn nice Russian imperial stout style. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roasted/bready malt, earthy hop, and light dark fruit flavors; and very smooth to sip on for the big ABV. A very enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2015
at 20:35
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
650 ml bottle. Some decent head retention in the snifter. The aroma is a nice dark roasted grain, mild spent coffee grounds and mild vanilla undertones.
The flavor is mostly right on for the style. Lots of charred malt, dark chocolate, traces of vanilla, molasses and mild wood notes. The bitterness comes from coffee grounds but really has a light hop element underneath it all. The body is a tad leaner then I want in an Imperial. But the greatest thing about this is the price tag $4.99! At this price point I may drink it more often, especially with today’s rising cost of craft beer. This is great getting a 650 ml for under $5.00. The most complex RIS ever? No of course not but it really gets the job done.
The flavor is mostly right on for the style. Lots of charred malt, dark chocolate, traces of vanilla, molasses and mild wood notes. The bitterness comes from coffee grounds but really has a light hop element underneath it all. The body is a tad leaner then I want in an Imperial. But the greatest thing about this is the price tag $4.99! At this price point I may drink it more often, especially with today’s rising cost of craft beer. This is great getting a 650 ml for under $5.00. The most complex RIS ever? No of course not but it really gets the job done.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2015
at 21:56
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sehr dunkel braunes Bier mit einer ordentlichen beigen Schaumkrone. Geruch sehr röstmalzig, kakao, leicht alkoholisch. Geschmack schokoladig, Vanille, Kakao, sehr weich.
Tried
on 18 Jan 2015
at 10:04
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Nice, dark and rich. Tick creamy beige head with some clumpy lacing. Aroma is chocolate and roast grains. Taste leans more toward the chocolate side of the spectrum, with some coffee/roast grain bitterness at the tail end. No sign of the alcohol....
Tried
on 21 Sep 2014
at 17:09
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Reviewed from notes. Just when I thought I got all of Lagunitas, I find this one. Here’s the rest.
This was a 22 oz. bottle.
About half of this was poured into a pint glass and the other half was poured into a snifter.
The appearance was a nice pure dark brown close to black color with a softly dissipating one finger white to off white foamy head. There’s a nice gently sliding lacing.
The smell has a nice luscious enticing chocolate to coffee to light black licorice
The taste had a fairly decent enriching bitter coffee balancing with the chocolate that has both dark and milk elements to it. The licorice does come back and lets a nice decent earthy dark fruits to come in just a tad.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body trying to show a slight heavier feel but really leaning to the medium side. The carbonation seemed right on par for the style and for me as it was mainly nice and smooth and coated my tongue nicely.
Overall, this was a really nice RIS well worthy of having again.
This was a 22 oz. bottle.
About half of this was poured into a pint glass and the other half was poured into a snifter.
The appearance was a nice pure dark brown close to black color with a softly dissipating one finger white to off white foamy head. There’s a nice gently sliding lacing.
The smell has a nice luscious enticing chocolate to coffee to light black licorice
The taste had a fairly decent enriching bitter coffee balancing with the chocolate that has both dark and milk elements to it. The licorice does come back and lets a nice decent earthy dark fruits to come in just a tad.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body trying to show a slight heavier feel but really leaning to the medium side. The carbonation seemed right on par for the style and for me as it was mainly nice and smooth and coated my tongue nicely.
Overall, this was a really nice RIS well worthy of having again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jul 2014
at 00:09
8/10
Tried
on 11 Jun 2014
at 09:51
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft. Very dark brown color, beige head, spiderweb lacing. Aroma of intense chocolate. Taste is cocoa powder, toast. Good stuff.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Dec 2013
at 13:49
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
On tap @ Rosamunde, Brooklyn, NY. Clear dark brown color with thick creamy light brown head and good lacing. Aroma of heavy roasted malt, coffee, chocolate and some woody notes. Tastes starts with moderate sweet roasted malt, coffee and chocolate, a bit sourish liquorice following, warming alcoholic mouthfeel and heavy bitter finish. Full body, thick texture and average carbonation in palate. Another excellent brew for Stoutland empire...
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Dec 2013
at 10:04
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tap at Lagunitas, Petaluma. Colour is black with small slightly brownish white head. Aromas and flavours: Hints of coffee, hints of chocolate and roasted malts. Quite tasteless.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Dec 2013
at 16:50