6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Aroma of roasted malts, dark chocolate, some dark fruits, just a little coffee. Flavour is medium sweet, malts and chocolate. Manages to hide its alcohol well. Quaffable and enjoyable, but lacking some oomph.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at Pint Noord-Hollands Bierfestival, Heiloo: Very black stout thats looks like an Baltic Porter with its roasted malts en well balanced sweetness.

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8

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Cafe de Engel Oldenzaal, tap. Hard to detect the aroma because the beer was served too cold. Full bodied, creamy but dry. Chocolate and some hidden fruitiness. Roasted malt. Alcohol present, but not too overwhelming. Excellent beer.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Fles 33cl thuis. Zoetig, rood fruit. Licht bitter, koffie. (11-2014).------.

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle received in trade with tricksta_p, cheers! Pours dark brown with an average sized lasting off-white head. Aroma of malt, roasting, liquorice, chocolate, vanilla and caramel. Milky chocolate medium sweetness, moderate roasted bitterness. Medium to light body, slight oily texture, soft carbonation.

6.4

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from a Deen supermarket in Holland. Medium thick, cobweb-lacing, pale greyish white head retaining quite well over a very dark, initially clear but eventually hazy, burgundy coloured beer with ruby hue, blackish but still fully transparent under bright light - not what I’d expect from an impy. Aroma of fresh blackcurrant, lots of caramel candy and butterscotch, liquorish, milk chocolate, banana (gaining strength as it warms up), raisins, candied fig, kahlua, ruby port, some shoe polish-like phenols, dead garden weeds, roasted hazelnuts, toasted brown bread, pear syrup and a vague presence of cooked, brown-sugared red cabbage. Sweetish and sourish onset of fig, pear, raisin and blackberry, very ’Belgian’ in its esteriness and much more announcing a dubbel or a quad than an impy, medium carbo (a tad too sharp for the style), no umami worth mentioning, (too) supple and smooth, caramelly and lightly nutty maltiness with a toasted edge, bit oily, no true roasted bitterness but still bitterness from spicy, leafy hops in the end combined with the toasted malts, as well as a certain wodka-like alcohol astringency, though showing up late enough not to become much more than deeply warming. Very malty and more or less enjoyable beer for sure, but by no means an imperial stout: this is, in terms of looks, (Belgian yeast) aroma and flavour much closer to a (average) quadrupel. Not bad per se, but utterly failing in trying to be a RIS, that much is clear. A shame in that respect, considering the high quality of their barley wine, for example.

6.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Pitch black pour, with a generous light tan head. The smell is pilsner-hoppy alongside dark chocolate and coffee. It has a fresh taste as well, with hoppy bitterness and cocoa, dark chocolate and coffee. There’s also a metallic bitterness which I personally find not pleasing.