Imperial Extra Double Stout
(has 3 batches)
Harvey's Brewery in Lewes, East Sussex, England 🏴
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.11
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Imperial Extra Double Stout is regarded as one of the World’s most unusual and prestigious beers. The recipe contains a dense concentration of varied malts and hops to produce a bottle conditioned stout of 9.0% ABV.
This brew will improve and develop complexity up to one year and has an intense flavour which is distinctive. The roast, alcoholic and spicy notes combine in this unusually sweet & sour beer.
This brew will improve and develop complexity up to one year and has an intense flavour which is distinctive. The roast, alcoholic and spicy notes combine in this unusually sweet & sour beer.
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8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml Bottle 2001 Vintage - Black in colour with a chocolatey tan head. Plain chocolate in the aroma with rich vinous fruits and a hint of dry coffee along with a slighy tart and musty element. This part of the aroma is rather reminiscent of a lambic. Rich taste which is fairly bitter. Vinous fruits, plain chocolate, coffee and marzipan all feature in the complex taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2008
at 17:38
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330 ml bottle provided by Indra for the 10/18 tasting. Albert Le Coq 1999 Vintage. Totally still black and ruby pour. Aroma of oxidization and black licorice, some black cherry dark sweetness. Taste is flat, black licorice, oily, and ashy. Soy sauce pretty big component. All of these flavors were melded together nicely. Palate is slick, oily, and and mouth coating. Interesting, and held up well for the age.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Oct 2008
at 09:32
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
2003 bottle. Pours black with ruby highlights and no head at all.. It has a sour, woody, musty smell. Flavor is woody and vinous, kind of like an aged red wine. There are also some roasted malt, chocolate and alcohol flavors. A very unusual imperial stout. It is different than any imp stout I have ever had. Different but good. Full body with no carbonation. Definately worth a try.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2008
at 12:42
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
bottle-pours no head, I then poured it from 12” high and got a few bubbles for a few seconds and oil sludge black color. Aroma is vinuous, molasses, dark fruit-raisin/some plum/figs, sugar cane, vanilla, oak, slight tar,alcohol. Not my style but a delight to breathe in, spectacular. Taste is lots of weed/grainy, red wine mouth feel with the related tannins, chicory-almost coffee. Some slickness at initial and mid taste. Minimum/no carbonation. Thanks to Joe-jwc215 for picking this out.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Aug 2008
at 21:55
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 4
First rating(Bottle at a beer tasting in Göteborg on July 4, 2008)2003 version as "A. Le Coq Imperial Extra Double Stout"Black color, light brown head. Mostly sour scent. Salty, sour, dry cocoa taste. Alcohol aftertaste. Warming alcohol. Smooth mouthfeel, medium bitterness.3/3/4/4/8=2.2RerateAs "Harvey Imperial Double Extra Stout"33 cl bottle at Bishops Arms Järntorget, Göteborg. On Ocotber 20, 2009 - during the porter week.Marked 2003Black color, no head. Vinous, raissin, alcohol, acidic, vanilla scent. Salty, wood like, alcohol, soy sauce taste. Some wood but mostly salty aftertaste. Smooth mouthfeel, low bitterness.5/2/4/4/9=2.3
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jul 2008
at 07:11
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
33 cL bottle, 2003, Harveys Imperial Extra Double Stout. Pours pitch black with a little bubbly dark brown head fully disappearing in an instant. Aroma is overripe fruit towards wineous notes. Solid malt note too. Flavour is quite intense fruity at first before a solid tar and soy sauce flavour hits the tongue. Hardroasted and with a gradual increasing fruity note towards the finish. Solid bitterness and acidic touch into the finish with a dense fruit note and even more tar.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2008
at 12:42
8.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
2003 Bottle at home drunk 2008... Deep Black , looks wonderfull in glass ... Lovely deep meaty vineeous malts ... sweet deep rich meaty tones oily mouth feel ... some woody tones ... some roast malts ... 2003 bottle at home... Drunk April 2017.. ..Dark red brown... Thin tan lacing... Massive oxidised chocolate roast malts nose heavy honey sweet roast malts nose.. Dark chocolate roast malts.. Big rich chocolate roast malts... Light sweet soya toast chocolate 4.2 really liking this
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2008
at 11:58
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
2003 bottle from Utobeer. Jet black with a tight, long-lasting tan head. Aroma of charred malt, licorice, prunes and soy sauce. Big, chunky mouth feel, with flavours of roasted malt, dark chocolate and cinnamon, with a warming alcohol/ bitter & savoury finish. Complex and excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2008
at 15:33