Black Widow Imperial Stout
Cortland Beer Company in Cortland, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
6.77
|
|
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
This was poured into a snifter.
The appearance was a dark brown color with a nice looking tan foamy head. Slid off to leave some light stringy lace.
The aroma had some roasty malt with some earthy tones, light cocoa, and sweet black cherries.
The flavor minimally blended the roastiness to the cocoa and black cherries. Aftertaste felt nice and warming with a better blend than the initial taste.
The feel was about medium bodied, perhaps just a touch above with a nice steady sipping quality. Carbonation felt fine and the ABV felt appropriate.
Overall, pretty nice imperial stout for the most part but didn’t expect the aftertaste to be better than the initial taste.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Keg at Lake Drum - Geneva, NY. Pours deep brown with minimal beige head. Rich roasty malt nose, some scorched earth notes, cocoa. Medium sweet flavor with mellow iodine, cherries, chocolate and raisins. Medium to full bodied, chewy, with fine carbonation. Finishes warm and sticky with lots of burnt sugars, charcoal and dark fruits. So so.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
22oz bottle. Poured a mostly dark black color, maybe at best a really dark brown color with a small off-white head. Aroma was light roasted malts, some toasted notes. Flavor was sweet chocolate notes, light coffee-like flavors. Light, maybe a bit too thin for this ABV.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
1 yr old cellared 22oz bottle-disappearing lt brown-black. A-roasty dk malt-anise/molasses, wood, dk fruit-raisin. T-sweet roasty dk malt-anise/molasses/licorice, wood, dk fruit-raisin, some earthy hops offsets nicely.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle thanks to Jcwattsrugger. Pours black. Light tan head. Nose/taste of burnt black malt, burnt coffee, vanilla and baker’s chocolate. Light bodied for an imperial. Dry burnt roast finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
A deep dark stout with a thin disappointing brown head. In aroma, powdery chocolate with light wood extract notes, some solvent and fusel notes, a bit strange. In mouth, a smooth sweetish chocolate with light dark fruits, coffee grinds, not bad. On tap at brewery, Dec. 3 2011.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Served on tap at the source. Pours a solid black with a decent tan head that sticks around for a while. Smells of chocolate, coffee, roasted grains, lots of dark pitted fruit, and enough earthy hops to be seen but not heard. Taste is roasty dark chocolate with hints of coffee, licorice and dark fruit. Full body leaves a long lingering chocolate and fruit in the finish. Thick and creamy mouthfeel with a light level of carbonation and a thick body. I really enjoyed this stout from a brewery I never heard of but happened upon by chance. I wish they hadn’t sold out of bottles of this before I arrived. Great Stout!