Imperiale
Doppio Malto Brewing Company in Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy 🇮🇹
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular|
Score
7.17
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Full-bodied and gentle. If you've had your Daniel Craig or Jennifer Lawrence moment (and it's passed), you'll understand. Best enjoyed while listening to Adriano Celentano's “Una carezza in un pugno” (A caress in a fist). Black Imperial IPA style.
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6.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cremiger, intensiv hopfiger Beginn. Stark röstig, milde Süße, vollmundig. Etwas zu viel Alkohol, dennoch süffig, cremig, langer Nachhall, gut. 10/9/10/11//10
Tried
from Draft
at
Doppio Malto Brenner Outlet
on 30 Jul 2026
at 18:04
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Tap at Doppio Malto, Lucca, Italy. Pours dark, almost black, with medium grained cream foam. Aroma is of sea/Baltic, roasty. Body and carbonation are average. Taste is medium bitter. Final is average, with still some pungent bitterness.
Tried
from Draft
at
Doppio Malto Lucca
on 05 Jul 2026
at 21:40
6.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Near pitch black, probably clear. Light to medium sized greyish head, shows good enough retention and nice lacing. Average intensity in the aroma: dark malts with dark bread and a hint of coffee, dry floral notes and also a resinous hint, perhaps the lightest citric hints; more or less the aroma you'd expect from the style, but with a touch of softness/roundness on the back of things. Less round/soft in taste, with a relatively neutral malty base (though coffee notes are definitely there) and a quite resolute dry bitterness (floral notes, a bit of resinous/piney character), plus, again, citric hops hints. Alcohol is very well hidden. There sure is some sweet malty base, but it comes out as quite neutral from a taste notes point of view and the beer has a bitter edge in both taste and aftertaste, with a dry finish. Balance is okay for the style, but the beer feels slightly rough around the edges. Quite dense bodied, perhaps a bit less than you'd expect for abv, with average carbonation; quite lively and relatively easy to drink for the abv. Nice one on the whole.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Jun 2026
at 11:08
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Taster at Rome FCO Airport, very dark amber almost brown beer, small head. Aroma is malt, caramel, fruit, pine. Taste is the same, pine, resinous bitterness, fruit, caramel, bitter dry aftertaste, some light alcohol. Nice one
Tried
on 17 Sep 2024
at 12:21
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On keg at Doppio Malto, Glasgow. Appearance - hazy amber with a thin off-white head. Nose - pine, bread and toffee. Taste - pine resin and grapefruit. Palate - medium bodied, chewy middle and dry resinous finish. Overall - yeah, a bit of a revisit to West Coast or Cascadian style.
Tried
on 16 Jun 2024
at 12:15