Imperial Stout
Double Wing Brewing Co. in Madison, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
6.67
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pour is a black with a small white head. Aroma is cocoa nips and a decent bitter bakers chocolate. Flavor is more bakers chocolate and some coffee. Creamy mouthfeel and the finish is a decent roasted malt. Thin body but alcohol is hidden well. If you called this a imperial porter I would agree with you but as a impy stout this was a bit thin.
Bytemesis (16229) reviewed Imperial Stout from Double Wing Brewing Co. 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
Bottle thanks to Alwcordell. This was NOT a gusher, but was most likely the most carbonated beer I have ever seen. Runaway secondary in the bottle I guess. I poured a few ounces in a glass and with a single swirl it was instantly all foam. The slowest most careful pour in the world resulted in a fireworks snake-like tube of tan foam erupting from the glass. In the end I salvaged perhaps 4 ounces of beer from a 12 ounce bottle, but even as I watch it now after 5 minutes of settling the head is still protruding further above the rim of the glass. A really cool science experiment, perhaps, but not the most enjoyable beer experience. I think I will let it sit for a while... 10 minutes later, still a solid head. Holy hell. Aroma is dusty, molasses, plastic phenols. Flavor is light plus sweet, fully bitter, roasty as shit, burned, but with lactose and chocolate milk backing, loads of coffee. Full body, really silky mouthfeel. This actually tastes and feels pretty good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
12 ounce bottle poured into a snifter. Pours black with a half finger tan head. Aroma is pretty light with dark chocolate, dark fruit, caramel, hint of licorice. Tasting notes of tart dark fruit, light roast, burnt coffee, cocoa. The tartness is the most prominent flavor and seems out of place.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black color with a medium sized foamy brown head that left decent lacing. The aroma was sweetish and malty chocolate and black licorice. The flavor was bitter with strong floral and perfumey hops, wood, a bit of roasty malts and an off battery acid note. Long bitter hops, wood and black licorice finish. Moderately full bodied and creamy. Ok.
cheap (9533) reviewed Imperial Stout from Double Wing Brewing Co. 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
I don’t know....either I am getting used to these impy stouts or.... this just seems a tad milder than I’m used to. Does not seem like 9+% 2 me. Mildly sizzly with just a tip of mild unexpected tartness in there. Infesting fer sure. Finish is nastily burnt but not as mouth punching as most impy stouts. Yes, almost acceptable. Perhaps I’m just really hungry for a beer. Maybe perhaps I should drink every impy stout right from the bottle. Overall, better than expected.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Draft: Pours Black with a short tan head. Aroma of cocoa and cola....roasty. Taste is chocolate, sweet milk. Very tasty.
shrubber (15804) reviewed Imperial Stout from Double Wing Brewing Co. 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draft. Ashy lactic chocolate malt aroma. Black with minimal head. Sweet ashy lactic chocolate malt flavor. Not bad - smooth for its ABV.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Tap at Cincy Beerfest. Chocolate, coffee, and ash aroma. Near black with a small tan head. Coffee, lactic chocolate, and earthy flavor. Medium body and carbonation.
superspak (10160) reviewed Imperial Stout from Double Wing Brewing Co. 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12 ounce can into snifter, canned in 2017. Pours fairly murky/cloudy nearly opaque dark brown/black color with a 1 finger fairly dense and rocky khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, molasses, toffee, vanilla, cream, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, and dark/brown bread/crusts; with lighter notes of licorice, raisin, plum, prune, fig, date, smoke, char, wood, grass, herbal, pepper, pine, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/black/roast/bready malts and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, molasses, toffee, vanilla, cream, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, and dark/brown bread/crusts; with lighter notes of licorice, raisin, plum, prune, fig, date, smoke, char, wood, grass, herbal, pepper, pine, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Light pine, herbal, woody, grassy, peppery hops; and roast/char bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, molasses, toffee, vanilla, cream, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, dark/brown bread/crusts, licorice, dark fruit, smoke, char, wood, grass, herbal, pepper, pine, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/black/roast/bready malts and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; with an awesome roast/hop bitter/sweet balance; and no cloying, acrid, astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering hop/char bitterness. Medium carbonation and fairly full body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/velvety/bready, and lightly slick/sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is fantastic. Mild increasing warmth of 9.2% after the finish. Overall this is an excellent Russian imperial stout! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/black/roast/bready malts and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to drink for the big ABV, with the mildly bitter/charred/drying finish. Awesomely rich and well rounded malt complexity; with solid earthy hop presence/balance, and restrained yeast fruitiness. A very enjoyable offering, and impressive spot on style example. Likely very mellowed out on hops from age, not overly bitter/charred at all.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Imperial Stout from Double Wing Brewing Co. 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from bittermestupid - thanks Greg. Pours black with a fizzy dark tan head. Aroma of lactosity over chocolate and smooth burnt malt. Med body -almost. It’s milk stout with attitude. Sort of milk chocolate. Very flavorful. Finishes lightly sweet.