Unity Chocolate Cherry Imperial Stout
New World Ales in Saratoga, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
5.97
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Tasting at Brian's
Black colour. Dark malts and dark caramel aroma; moderately sweet; the body is lean, quite boozy; dark malts flavour with strong bitterness, traces of fruit acidity.
Boozy Brown Ale, more than an Imperial Stout.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle - Dark chocolate and some cherry. Jet brown black with a decent white head. Chocolate, bitterness and very little cherry.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
22 oz. bottle, pours a deep dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma brings out faded cherries and dusty cocoa. Flavour brings out dusty, bitter, dry cocoa, with metallic notes, and very subtle cherries. Bitter, thin and metallic. This isn't pleasant or well-constructed at all.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Light brown. Not much head. On the nose, I get some cocoa and cherry. Not all that enticing, though, as it also smells sour and not all that fun. Some chocolate, some cherry, touch tart. There's some sweetness, but I'm not getting the sort of full malty character I would normally associate with that. It's not super balanced.