Old Heathen
Weyerbacher Brewing Co. in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.32
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6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Casked from Blind Tiger. Dark, no head. Very syrupy. Some licorice almost. Not super succesful as a real ale.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 May 2025
at 00:51
Tried
on 25 Jan 2020
at 13:39
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
LCRBM2: Coffee with too much sugar in the aroma. Very sweet flavor with roast and some coffee. Brown sugar. Not my favorite, just too sweet and onedimensional.
Tried
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:07
4.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bitter malziger Beginn. Oxidation, keine Karbonisierung, wässriger Hintergrund. Mittellanger Abgang, Schokolade. 7/8/9/8/5/8
Tried
on 12 Feb 2019
at 09:04
4.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
On tap @Brasserie 4:20 (Rome). Nera, densa, impenetrabile, schiuma esile, evanescente. Al naso note di caffè, oliva verde, diavolina. In bocca è prevalentemente amara caffettosa, con spiacevole nota salmastra. Corpo inferiore alle attese, carbonazione esile. Ossidata.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Mar 2017
at 16:33
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Tap at 4:20, Rome-Italy. Black pour, brownish medium foam. Nose: chocolate and hidden olive, hints of herbs. Mouth: watery, a bit weak, esile, olive.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Mar 2017
at 14:57
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
0,33l bottle at home from Etre Gourmet (thanks Saeglopur). No BB date. black color, small coffee-colored head. smells of sherry, spices, light earthy, raisins, light licorice, some caramel, some oxidation. nice smell. full body, soft carbonation, slick mouthfeel. tastes of raisins, cardboard, light sherry, spices, licorice, light marzipan. finishes rather balanced with light raisins, marzipan and some spices. okish, probably could be a bit fresher (not that I can judge that without any kind of date on the bottle). overall drinkable but could be improved with some distinct stout-ish flavours.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Oct 2016
at 15:32
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
’Standard’ imperial stout by Weyerbacher, with fairly thick, regularly shaped, pale beige, dense head consisting of minute bubbles and residing over a black beer more or less revealing its mahogany hue on the edge but otherwise completely opaque. Rich aroma of bitter chocolate, cappuccino, stewed beef with brown sugar, cocoa nibs, vanilla ice cream, leather, raisin, ’natural’ iron, kahlua, roasted pine nuts, whisky, candied dates, slight soy sauce, hints of cured meat, pear syrup, dry tree leaves, gravy. Restrained sweetness in the onset, candied fig, raisin and some slight green banana, sourish blackberry touch as well as a thin ’rim’ of umami, medium carbo (perhaps just a tad much for the style), very creamy, smooth, slick and ’fat’ mouthfeel, caramelly malt sweetness quickly gaining nutty and toasted bitterness and eventually becoming roasted coffeeish bitter but only gently so, very chocolatey too, paired with restrained but effective earthy and lightly spicy hop bitterishness in the end as well as a glow of warming, brandy-like but otherwise well hidden alcohol. ’Classic’ in its style, but very enjoyable; perhaps a tad less interesting than their Belgian yeast-fermented Tiny. Nevertheless very enjoyable if you like big, heavy stouts, technically perfectly executed and very (bitter) chocolatey in its overall profile - likely a good one to age, too.
Tried
from Can
on 15 May 2016
at 08:21
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
deep dark brown colour, surprisingly large creamy beige head; aroma of dark chocolate, coffee, herbal liqueur notes and some dried plum; taste is the same with perfect balance of malty sweetness and roasted bitterness; not among the best imp stouts, but a nice one
Tried
on 06 Mar 2016
at 07:18
