Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle at Het Klooster, Delft. Aroma is roasted malt with strong coffee, mocha, coffee grounds, and notes of espresso. Flavour is sweet with some roasty bitterness in the finish. Body is full. Lots of dark malt and coffee flavours, tasty stuff!

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Rating #3600. Bottle at home, 29th September 18. Pours black and slick, some nice fluffy white head. Aroma is quality coffee, bitter, dark chocolate. Taste is coffee, bitter bean and dark chocolate, some liquorice. It's a really tasty coffee beer. Quality stuff.

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Strong coffee aroma with woody,slightly earthy & somehow fresh/citrusy feel,roasted coffee beans,light dark choc,cereal,brown bread,low to

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Coffee version of a Swedish imperial stout in the typical stubby Brewski bottles - I like them for heavy beer types like this - with adorable pug on the label. Creamy, regular, dense, tightly membranous lacing, deep yellowish beige head, retaining very well but slowly opening in the middle; jet black robe with mahogany brown edges, visible only under bright light for a few millimeters off the edge. Expressive aroma of indeed a lot of (old) coffee powder from a bag, with an almost dusty and cloth-like, but still vivid effect, reminiscent of my grandmother's old coffeepot, overseeing a deeper character of pure black chocolate, dry shoe leather, salmiak, unsmoked pipe tobacco, underlying notes of toffee, wet clay, cigar ashes, 'dropveters', treacle, curdled blood, dried elderberries, some vague gravy. Pleasantly condensed onset, boildown Liège syrup sauce and gravy, touches of teriyaki, elderberry and salmiak, sweetish with persisting background sourishness as well as a 'ring' of umami; softish carb, fit for the style, very thick, rounded, greasy, viscous mouthfeel - also fit for the style. Deeply toasted nut-like malt body with oily caramelly edges but remaining notably low in sweetness (especially for a modern Scandinavian 'impy'), putting more emphasis on toasty and roasted bitterness, bitter black chocolate, pleasantly ashy in the end, with a lingering, quite deeply integrated liquorice-like flavour penetrating it, but not in an overly obtrusive manner. Coffee cream, and eventually actual coffee powder in a more aromatic, albeit not exaggeratedly expressive way, builds up retronasally, before a drying, heating, rum-coloured alcohol effect takes over, taking down the nuttiness, toastedness, basic sourishness, a thin 'bloody' iron aspect and a peppery hop bitter note, while the coffee remains present, but more so in the roasted barley way than in the actual added coffee way. Very rich, thick, robust but technically perfectly executed stout, ashy and roasted as in the earlier days of the genre and in that sense not colluding with that pastry stout hype. Not that I have anything against that, some of them (Omnipollo!) are absolutely stunning, but I have a similar feeling with imperial stout as with IPA: every now and then, it is good to encounter a good old-fashioned bitter one amidst all the sweetening going on in both styles nowadays. On a side note, though: very weirdly, the final centilitre (or so) contained big, yellow, solid flakes, and a lot of them, no idea what this was (maybe fragments of the coffee beans used??) but they weren't at all inviting to keep drinking so I had to pour the last bit down the sink - point off for that, I hate solid, unidentifiable thing floating around in any beer!

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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Tried in a bottle from Dead Crafty Liverpool. Deep almost black colour with a tan head. Big coffee and chocolate aroma and taste. Rich full body.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle thanks to wombat23. Black with a creamy, tan head that fades fairly rapidly. Aroma is coffee but (like most coffee beers) not the pleasant aromas of newly roasted coffee but rather the acrid bitterness of used up coffee grounds. Maybe that’s why I just can’t get into coffee brews. Taste is bitter and full of coffee but with a light sour tang near the end. Body is medium and lighter than usual for an Impy but still a touch oily, and there is plenty of alcohol driven warmth from the 11.5 ABV. Overall it’s still good but there’s nothing here you won’t find in a million other coffee Imps.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

330 ml bottle at the Hoppy Pub, Thessaloniki. Black color with beige brown head. Roasted malty aroma, lots off coffee, green coffee too in the beginning, licorice, chocolate. Sweet and bitter taste like aroma. Medium oily body with soft carbonation