Imperial Coffee & Cigarettes
Cellarmaker Brewing Company in Oakland, California, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.70
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Tap as part of a sampler at the brewery. Black with moderate brown head. Overt ash and coffee, with the roast slightly and nicely restrained. Flavor follows the taste. Very solid.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle pours out black topped with a tan head. Nose is you guessed it big coffee forward some ash and smoke. Taste is more of the nice roast coffee some smoke and a little tobacco.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Glass, 2-ounce, can, from and with Luc Bourbonnière (merci!), savoured on December 14 2018; eye: black, opaque, ring of brown head, slight lacing; nose: roasting, intense coffee, acidity, intense; mouth: roasting, intense coffee, acidity, intense, ashy, caramel, semi-dry finale in coffee with slight ashy presence, full body, average carbonation, quite bitter, lightly sweet, harsh texture; overall: quite likable
FRANÇAIS
Verre, 2 onces, canette, de et avec Luc Bourbonnière (merci!), savourée le 14 décembre 2018; œil : noire, opaque, anneau de mousse brune, très légère dentelle; nez : torréfaction, café intense, acidité, intense; bouche : torréfaction, café intense, acidité, intense, cendré, caramel, finale semi-sèche en café avec légère présence cendrée, corsée, carbonatation moyenne, très amère, légèrement sucrée, texture râpeuse; en résumé : bien aimé
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Tap @ MBCC 2017. Aromas of lots of coffee, light smokey, ashy, dark chocolate, caramel. Taste is super chocolatey, caramel, light cocoa acidity and smoke along some fruity coffee.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Crowler: Poured a pitch-black color porter with a huge dark brown foamy head. Aroma of dry bitter roasted malt with huge black chocolate notes, light smoke/tobacco notes is pretty intense. Taste is an intense mix of sweet black chocolate notes with dry bitter roasted malt notes with light smoked and some tobacco notes are also perceptible. Body is full with good carbonation with not overwhelming notes of alcohol that are perceptible. Intense and a beer that his better shared but glad I tried it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
A deep dark porter with a thin dark brown head. In aroma, sweet chocolate malt with loads of peated smoked malt, light coffee, very nice. In mouth, a nice bitter chocolate with coffee grind, musty character, light peated notes, vanilla and vanilla, alcohol warmth, very nice. Crowler from brewery. Tasted at Pushkinwows Xmas 2018 gathering.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
29.04.2015, tap @ Mikkeller Bar:
No head. Aroma is rich, espresso, dark chocolate pudding, burnt caramel, toast, rye bread, lactose, dark sugar. Taste is slightly dry, espresso, grass, hay, burnt caramel, cocoa, toast, rye bread, alcohol, dark chocolate. Medium bitterness, slightly dry mouthfeel. Nice one.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
29-09-18 // taster from the bottle at Mon Petit Cafe Stuttgart at the Pre-Zwanze-Tasting. Depp black. Cigarette smoke nose. Coffee body. Too much cigarette aromas for me.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
(On tap @ MBCC 2017 Yellow Session, Copenhagen) Black pour with a tan head. Notes of nice roasted coffee really dominating, kiss of smoke, dark ashy roasted malts with a touch of caramel sweetness, chocolate, softly fruity, a little licorice, finish is dry and loaded with coffee and roast, ash, smoke, rather bitter to close out an only lightly sweet beer. Fairly long aftertaste. Medium-full bodied with no real alcohol. Really nice, about as good as smoked beer gets for me.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Sample at GABF 10/07/2017, thanks to my bro for assistance with note-taking. Brown-black color with a medium khaki head that diminishes gradually. Patches of lace. Roast malt, coffee and chocolate aroma. Full-bodied with a smokey malt character and notes of roasted coffee and chocolate. The finish is roasty with a coffee and malt aftertaste. Good beer all around.