Dark Apparition
(has 6 batches)
Jackie O's Pub & Brewery in Athens, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.62
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This hauntingly good brew in your hand is rife with dark complexities. Eleven malts were used to create deep flavors of coffee, chocolate, caramel, and molasses. A hint of bitterness and herbal character from carefully selected American hops help support the monolithic maltiness of Dark Apparition. A truly decadent brew that is intended to be poured into your favorite snifter and given time to warm up from its dark and cold resting place. Be aware when in the presence of Dark Apparition ’cause this ghost is a creeper.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, courtesy of Sinh4, thanks! Pours pitch black. Superb classical imperial stout. Raw, burnt, coffee and chocolate, liquorice, bitter but still with a strong body. Some smoked wood, and super smooth at it. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2018
at 21:15
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
2018 bottle drunk 11/28/18. Maybe opaque dark hickory-mahogany. Tan head to ring. A lot of raisin, ash, stale roast and glue. Jumbled and muddled and just too ashen. Glue-like alcohol certainly not helping. In mouth it's sweet with plum, raisin and caramel and ending on awful, stale, astringent, ashen, overly charred, oxidized, soy-forward notes. Good attenuation and carbonation with no glue in flavor but the flavor is still awful.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2018
at 02:05
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft (snifter) somewhere in northern Indiana. Deep opaque brown-black body, medium dense beige head. Nose mostly roast and toasted sugars when cold, with coffee and tannins at warmer temperatures. Roasty body, with fruity/bitter coffee beans, plummy sugars, and an inky charred bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Nov 2018
at 15:05
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
375ml bottle bought at Systembolaget PK-Huset. Shared with Finn and djoeye. Pitch black in the glass under a low fawn-coloured head, spotty lacing. Meat and dark malts on the nose. Flavoured with meat-like chocolate, dark fruits, and molasses. Mid-sweet, long-lived malty ending, lightly roasted. Rounded on the swallow. Decent sipper, not outstanding. (Rating session, Tromsø 25.10.2018).
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Oct 2018
at 18:54
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Flaske spandert av Rune. Delt med ham og djoeye i WCveien. Svart. Middels høyt mokkafarget skum som daler veldig sakte. Lett sjokoladearoma. Silkemyk munnfølelse. Smaken melkesjokolade. Alkoholen velintegrert.
Tried
on 25 Oct 2018
at 18:59
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Jackie O's Dark Apparition (by Jackie O's Pub & Brewery):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5
17/IX/18 - 12.7Fl. Oz. / 37.5cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ the Last Outdoor Evening Tasting, BB: n/a - (2018-1255) Thanks to Erwin for sharing the bottle!
Clear dark brown to black beer, small creamy irregular beige head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots of banana, roasted, coffee, nice stuff, some red liquorice. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: roasted start, bit sweet, caramel, little sourish, some chlorine. Aftertaste: sourish, soft roast, red berries, funky touch, yeast, some banana, alcohol, very roasted, ripe melons, more alcohol, some fusels, bitter, yeasty finish.
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5
17/IX/18 - 12.7Fl. Oz. / 37.5cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ the Last Outdoor Evening Tasting, BB: n/a - (2018-1255) Thanks to Erwin for sharing the bottle!
Clear dark brown to black beer, small creamy irregular beige head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots of banana, roasted, coffee, nice stuff, some red liquorice. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: roasted start, bit sweet, caramel, little sourish, some chlorine. Aftertaste: sourish, soft roast, red berries, funky touch, yeast, some banana, alcohol, very roasted, ripe melons, more alcohol, some fusels, bitter, yeasty finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Sep 2018
at 20:09