Can at Zum Franziskaner. Black with a small head. Roasted malt, coffee, licorice and notes of smoke. Full body and with a long finish. A nice one.

Can 440ml. @ home. 🏡🇩🇰

[ As Gänstaller Bräu 08 Onyx ].
ABV: 12.0%. Clear dark black colour with a large, frothy - creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light brown head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, dark malt, sweet malt, roasted, chocolate, cocoa, malty. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, roasted, dark malt, chocolate - coffee, cocoa, malt bitter, rich, thick. Body is medium to full, texture is oily - creamy, carbonation is soft, finish feel is warming. [20210626]
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Imperial stout by this pioneer of the new global style craft brewing in protectionist Germany – and one of those breweries I never get tired of. Moussy, small-bubbled, yellowish beige, slowly opening head on a black beer with very thin burgundy edge. Aroma of black coffee, pure unsugared black chocolate, charcoal and even some bonfire yet without true Rauchbier effect, salmiak, wet leather, gin, burnt toast, pipe tobacco ashes, black peppercorns. Dense onset, some very subtle sweetish dried blackberry and prune but otherwise dry, with a light black olive-like umami accent, finely tingling carbonation and full, oily mouthfeel; roasted pecan-nutty, bitter black-chocolatey and toasty, eventually even slightly ashy ‘black maltiness’ and roastedness, lots of coffee-like bitterness filling the back of the mouth, amplified by a strong leafy hop bitterness and an afterglow of gin-like alcohol which nevertheless retains its ideal position faraway in the finish. Lots of sticky, coffee-like roasted bitterness remains. It seems as if the ‘Russian’ in imperial stout nowadays only refers to these old-fashioned roasty bitter examples rather than imperial stout in general, but this is a pointless semantic discussion of course – let’s just say that I like my imperial stouts this way, having grown a bit tired of all those over-the-top, often sickly sweet pastry stouts… This indeed is imperial stout the way it was done in previous centuries and I absolutely love it. As said, Ganställer never disappoints. Zum wohl!

Many thanks to kappldav123 for sharing! Smooth mild beginning. Intense deep roasted tar, coffee, burned grain. Viscous, deep caramelly dry with a punch of espresso in the back. Deep, intense on the tongue. Tar, espresso, burned grain. And very mild! Fascinating!