Midnight Paddler
5 Paddles Brewing Company in Whitby, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.19
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Lots of roast, but not up to what i would expect from an imperial stout. Notes of cococa and soy, and some coffee. Hops are also upfront, lots of pine, and resins. Mouth feel is a touch thin for an imperial stout, and the carb is quite soft. Strong hoppy finish, with quite a bit of roast. I do see the black ipa/imperial stout hybrid idea, but it detracts too much from the pleasant characteristics of an imoerial stout.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 06:02
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
22 ounce bottle into snifter, no bottle dating. Pours opaque dark brown/black color with a 2 finger dense and rocky khaki head with awesome retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, molasses, toffee, dark/brown bread, toasted biscuit, and nuttiness; with lighter notes of smoke, charcoal, raisin, prune, fig, date, licorice, leather, tobacco, herbal, pepper, and roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with great strength. Taste of big dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, molasses, toffee, dark/brown bread, toasted biscuit, and nuttiness; with lighter notes of smoke, charcoal, raisin, prune, fig, date, licorice, leather, tobacco, herbal, pepper, and roast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/spicy hop and roast/char bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, molasses, toffee, dark/brown bread, toasted biscuit, nuttiness, smoke, char, dark fruit, licorice, leather, tobacco, herbal, pepper, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with an awesome roasted bitter/sweet balance; and zero acrid/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from hop/roast bitterness. Medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready/grainy, and lightly silky/sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 9.9%. Overall this is a n excellent Russian imperial stout! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to drink for the big ABV; with the mellowly bitter/drying finish. A lot of rich English malt complexity; nice earthy hop balance, and complementing restrained English yeast character. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2017
at 21:28
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle: Poured a deep black color ale with a nice thick light off-white foamy head with excellent retention and great lacing. Aroma of roasted malt, deep black chocolate notes with some light residual sugar notes. Taste is a pleasant mix of black chocolate with some dry roasted malt with some residual sugar notes. Body is about average with good carbonation with no residual alcohol notes. Not the most complex imperial stout but quite nice overall with great drinkability and chocolate smoothie notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2015
at 13:19
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
A dark brown ipa with a thin brown head. In aroma, smooth chocolate malt with resinous floral hops, grapefruit notes, nice. In mouth, a nice sweet chocolate caramel malt with piney and resinous hops, citrus pulp, treacle, well done. OttBottShare Dec 15 2013. Black Ipa.
Tried
on 15 Dec 2013
at 14:41
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Nice. This is definitely a more than drinkable beer. Coffee, dark chocolate and roast malt dominate this with a floating waft of good. Pours black with decent head and lacing. Finishes is bitter from mix of good and dark chocolate. Great beer if this is a starting point for these guys. Tap at volos.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Sep 2013
at 21:34