Imperial Stout
Olde Hickory Brewery in Hickory, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.54
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle: Very dark brown pour with a brown head. Heavy roast and chocolate nose. More roasty notes in the taste with espresso and floral hops. Sort of an earthy presence. The sweetness of the honey never really shined through in my eyes, but it remained balanced with the roasty, floral, and earthy bits. Nicely done.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2011
at 16:17
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft @ Hickory Hops 2011, Hickory, NC. Pours a black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty chocolate aroma with weak hints of smoke. Roasted malty chocolate and licorice flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate and coffee finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Jul 2011
at 14:13
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared at RBSG. Pours black. Brown head. Nose/taste of sweet milk chocolate, honey, vanilla, light ash and burnt black malts. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jun 2011
at 18:32
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled. A pitch black beer with a thin brown head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, alcohol, soy sauce, as well as a bit of chocolate. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, caramel, alcohol, and soy sauce, leading to a bitter and roasted finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2011
at 12:28
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dark brown with a medium beige head. Sweet aroma with burned malt, coffee and dark chocolate. Sweet flavor with dark chocolate, espresso, hops, burned malt and warming alcohol towards the end. Finished bitter.
Tried
on 18 Mar 2011
at 12:48
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
22 fl oz bottle. Pours dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted malty and dark caramelish. Mild acidic and roasted malty. Bitter, dry and dark roasted malty finish. Bitter and dark roasted into far finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2011
at 12:30
7.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
very dark brown, almost no head. malty, toffee, caramel, roasted malts. flavor is roasted malts, charchoal, wood. ends dry and roasted.
Tried
on 18 Mar 2011
at 12:20
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of sincereNC. Pours a very dark brown - close to black - with a vague orange hue and a small beige head. Hard roast nose, some oats and a sweet edge. Solid body, heavy roast and dark fruits, some licorice with a massive bitterness from both malts and hops. Fairly straight hard roast Impy - a little rough perhaps. 180311
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2011
at 12:15
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Waxed 22 ounce bottle from Bestway in Greensboro, NC, who, incidentally I heard is expanding their beer selection, which as it is now, means they’ll be taking out food to do so. You gotta love people that have their priorities in line. The bottle has a bit of age on it though I’m not sure how much. The beer pours pretty much pitch black with a thick, dense dark brown head that sticks around a while. Aroma of dark roasted malts with a bit of a dry smokiness, chocolate, honey and a bitter hop finish. The taste is dark roasted malts, honey, chocolate and a faint smokiness. Bitter hop finish. Medium-full bodied. I’m liking this one quite a bit. Well done.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jul 2010
at 18:43
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle (gold wax) thanks to bu11zeye. Pours with a large tan head and a near black body. Head leaves great lacing. Aroma is nutty, grainy, cereal, honey, honey bunches of oats (cereal), light chocolate, light roast, light alcohol. Nothing screams IMPERIAL STOUT on the aroma, very subtle and grainy. Taste is bitter, grainy, espresso, very light on the dark malt. Creamy carbonation, thick, slightly tannic body. Warming.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2010
at 08:18