Dark Night
Beyond the Pale Brewing Company in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.06
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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Nose is fresh ground coffee with mid sweetness chocolate. A lovely thick dark tan head. The fresh roast coffee continues into the taste with a nicely understated chocolate under it. A touch of creaminess, ripe, rich cherries and a nice underlying bitterness add to the well blended taste. Nevertheless, each taste is fresh and distinct, the chocolate is not cloying or overly sweet and the balances are rare for such a freshly brewed IS. A real treat.
Tried
on 23 Sep 2025
at 20:00
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Bottle, thanks for sharing! Pours black with a grayish brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a strong coffee note with a bit of green pepper and a dark grain backbone. Flavor has dark grains and coffee with a bit of green pepper.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2016
at 22:34
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Thanks to AleRider78 for sharing this one, March 27th, 2015. Pours a dark syrupy brown colour with a small mocha head and minimal lacing. Coffee aromas over roasted malts. After breathing, darker fruits appear (dates, raisins). Silky smooth mouthfeel with a little stickiness in the finish. The coffee is a little better hidden in the taste, with roasted malts and notes of sweet dark fruits. Well-blended hops giving some nice bitterness. Quite a smooth Imperial Stout collaboration with a great local coffee roaster.
Tried
on 15 Feb 2016
at 16:22
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours a very dark brown with small beige head that diminishes to nothing. The aroma is huge roast and dark chocolate. Thin mouth, rich, strong roast, dark chocolate, sweet, light dry finish, very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2015
at 15:15
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle - Lots of dark roast coffee. Jet black brown with a small light brown head. Dark chocolate and lots of pressed coffee and a chocolate and dark fruit in the finish. Lots of coffee.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 May 2015
at 21:52