Imperial Stout Trooper
New England Brewing Company in Woodbridge, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Winter|
Score
7.53
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Nearly a dozen types of malts and grains go into this FORCE-full, American Imperial Stout. Hints of coffee, tastes of dark fruit, and a subtle chocolate background make this Stout the perfect brew to welcome the Winter months. Brewed solely during the onset of the colder months, this one-time-a-year release will make you come over to the dark side... of beer.
Hops - Columbus, Cascade.
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5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 2
Overall 5
Bottled, thanks Cletus! Deep black, beige head. Tarry coffee aroma. Full bodied with syrupy sweetness and oily mouthfeel. The combination of heavy roastiness and extreme sweetness makes it inky, and it turns crude and harsh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Sep 2009
at 06:40
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. (Thanks John and Kan.) Pours an imperial brown with little head that dies quickly, but there’s a cool swirl of very tiny bubbles on the surface that looks a little like a galaxy far, far away. Aromas are weaker than expected, but still good. A bit of chocolate and roasted malt, some coffee, but not much else going on. Flavor is similar... but could be more aggressive and robust. There’s a nice roasty flavor with some nuts and chocolate, but this comes off as very grainy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2009
at 00:27
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle 12fl.oz. @ home.[ Trade by VikingHammer ]. Clear dark black color with a large, frothy to creamy, excellent lacing, fully lasting, light brown head. Aroma is heavy malty, roasted, burnt. chocolate, coffee, alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and heavy bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily and sticky, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light to moderate alcoholic. [20090511]
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jul 2009
at 09:13
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
The force wasn’t really with me at the end of a long beer tasting night when I decided to wield my light saber cheap 1$ bottle opener. Pours pitch black, with mocha head. Aroma malty, plenty of coffee, caramel. Taste, roasted malts, some coffee and chocolate. Worth a future rerate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Apr 2009
at 21:58
7.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at Craig’s house, Edinburgh. Thanks for sharing this with me Craig 20-03-09 The aroma I felt was very Great Divide Yeti like, uncannily so. Poured black with a tan head, taste is bitter initially but this soon faded, typically raosty and with oodles of cocoa and coffee. An enjoyable beer that promised more than it delivered. A8 A5 F7 P3 OV13 3.6
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Mar 2009
at 05:16
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at home ... With Fin ... With HUGE thanks to Agent Steve for this one ... Black thin tan head ... sweet meeaty roast malt nose ... bitter front ... big roast malts ... big aggressive all for the Empire stout... light vanilla ... decent stout but not over impressive... Still very pleased to have tried it,
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2009
at 16:51
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Black with dark beige head. Sweet aroma with loads of roasted malt coffee and dark bitter chocolate. Sweet flavour with hard roasted malt, coffee and dark bitter chocolate.
Tried
on 21 Dec 2008
at 06:06
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of boboski. Completely opaque black with a light brown head. Aroma of hard roasted malt with a vinous touch. Pours very thick and almost syrupy with sweetish burned malt, vanilla notes and dried fruit. Not much bitterness in the finish, but extremely smooth and pleasant. 201008
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Oct 2008
at 13:38
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 fl oz bottle. Pours dark brown to black with a small creamy chocolate brown head. Dense roasted malty to chocolate malty aroma. Smoked and dense malty flavoured with a smooth chocolate base flavour and vanilla. Dense smoked finish with a light acidic roasted finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Oct 2008
at 01:34
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Wow, I thought I’d never even see this beer in person let alone get a chance to try it. tpd975 can make anything happen, thanks buddy. It pours deep darkness with thin brown head. The aroma seems a bit mild but does build big chocolate notes, some roastiness burnt molasses followed by some hotness in the nose. Smells mighty fine. The taste is bold yet somewhat melded together with punchy smoothness coming from dark chocolate, coffee, molasses, some caramel and yummy richness on the palate. Midway and into the finish it dries out a bit with malt roastiness and burnt malts giving up mild amounts of malt astringency. Very yummy indeed.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Sep 2008
at 21:40