Imperial Chocolate Stout
Sankt Gallen Brewery in Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan 🇯🇵
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.38
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
330 ml bottle from Dogenzaka Shinonoya. Pours nice deep and dark brown with a thin brown head. Aroma is full of roast, dark bitter chocolate, a bit of alcohol - that is quite well hidden for a beer of 9%. It has some dark fruits lurking as well. Taste is what I would expect from a nice imperial stout. It is definitely sweet but not boozy, lots of roasted malts mingling with malt base, chocolate sweetness - and finishing up in a bitter chocolate and cocoa finish. I guess there is a lot coming out from roast malts - and there should be no real chocolate and cocoa used. Nice and enjoyable beer, well executed. Should buy a few more of these and see what happens if I try it after some extra ageing.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. 2012 vintage. A more or less black one, topped by a dense, finger-thick dark beige head that leaves lacings. The aroma has a nice bretty touch, with some lemon and woody hints. Pepper notes. Don’t really like that the brett cloakes the chocolate and roasted malts so well though. It’s super smooth on the palate, lighlty warming, and quite full-bodied. Feeling dry even though there’s certainly residual sweetness. Chocolate and some roasted malts too, lasting for a good while. Some alcohol burn too in the end. Sure a nice one, and it would be interesting to sample an unbretted edition. 140118
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ Fynsk Brunsviger er kommet til Ulfborg for at blive , som streger i dine hvide underbukser. Day 2. Pours dark brown with floaties. Chocolate, roast, mild brett and coffee. Smooth and medium bodied.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Vestjysk Vinter Vanvid januar 2014. Aroma of fruit and chocolate with a funky touch of brettanomyces. Roasted flavour with dark chocolate, dried fruit, hops and brett, with a bitter, hoppy finish
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle 330ml vintage 2012 @ fonefan
Pours pitch black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, brett and citrus. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter with a long roasted, chocolate and fruity finish. Body is medium to full, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are roast malt, brett, funk, chocolate, licorice and hops.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Black with a lasting light brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, chocolate, coffee and light bretty. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and roasted rather bitter finish. Oily. 180114
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft - Roast malts, bittersweet chocolate and a bit of soy. Jet black with a decent brown head. Burnt malts , coffee and dark chocolate. The burnt malts are a bit off putting for me.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
12 ounce bottle from goodbeer.jp brought over by the wife, arigato. Pours a pure black color with a large brown head. A rich nose of chocolates, pepper and mint. The flavor is mostly dry milk chocolates, some light vanilla, green pepper, light roast. Dark fruit inches in. Very smooth and tasty. Hefty but also easygoing. Damn good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
33 cl bottle thanks to Ingo! Sampled on April 8, 2013. Marked (BB?) 2014.2.14, purchased late December 2012.LAbel also had "2012" marked on it.Clear dark brown color, brown head. Sweet, lactic, alcohol scent. Malty, grainy, dry taste. Dry bitter finish. Medium mouthfeel, medium bitterness. Roasted finish.