100 Barrel Series #12 - Imperial Stout
Harpoon Brewery in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
6.71
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at Paul’s "Blind" imperial stout tasting. Pours black with light tan head right. Nose and taste of black licorice, milk chocolate, roast chocolate malt and vanilla. Body on the lighter side of medium due to the lower ABV for an imperial stout.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours dark brown into a snifter. Quickly dissipating mocha-colored head leaves no lacing. Chocolate and coffee aromas. Burnt caramel up front with bitter hop aftertaste that lingers and becomes malt liquorish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On draught at Redbones, 10/26/2005 with Crosling. Served a dark, coal black with a dark grayish-beige head, small but fairly well retained, probably because this is so fresh. Certainly not because it’s thick. In fact, it’s another filtered one in the series. After the carbonation settles out, the beer is actually fairly clear when held to the light and takes on a tan-chestnut color. There is no lacing present. Aroma shows roasted barley bitterness, but well-restrained, with some light baker’s chocolate dryness, a smattering of fresh floral hops and a bit of sweet, toffeeish malt. Flavor begins with a good dose of dark chocolate coupled with lightly salty roast. Moderately flavorful hops (floral in nature) come in to play, adding a balancing bitterness to the sweet toffee and buttercream malt sweetness. Touches of roasted bitterness grace the edges of the palate while a lingering mix of creamy sweet malt and more chocolate build. Finishes with a well-controlled hops bitterness, lightly fruity, mostly floral and dry, with buttercream and chocolate. Body is medium for the style, with a moderate amount of carbonation and a rather smooth, if somewhat uninspiring mouthfeel. Though at this point, being so fresh, it hasnt begun to grow watery or thin. But I have no doubt that it will. It’s a very light example of the style.