Imperial Stout (Signature Series)
Shipyard Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Smoked Regular|
Score
7.11
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from the brewery on our visit to Portland, ME. Pours a real dark brown colour with hardly any highlights. The head is darker brown, like deep mocha, fizzing away pretty quickly leaving nothing. Aromas of roasted malts giving molasses and chocolate notes. A nice warming mouthfeel, but alcohol is well-hidden overall. Again, molasses and chocolate hints over the roasted malts. Maybe a little dark fruits in the background. Nothing too crazy special, but very easy to go down.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle pour into nonic pint glass from Cigarette City. Appearance is all but opaque black (slightly dark brown with light source directly behind), sparkle at sides of the glass, ephemeral light brown cap, no lacing. Aroma is dark roasted malts, chocolate, caramel, dark fruit, alcohol, hint of licorice. Taste is roasted malt, chocolate, dark fruit, licorice. Palate is medium-to-full bodied with slick texture, average carbonation, slight warming as it goes down the esophagus and roasted bittersweet finish. Overall, a nice array of aromas and flavors. Better than I was expecting.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a black from a bottle. Roasted coffee aroma, similar flavor, a little syrupy sweet, too sweet in my opinion. Good beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours deep brown into a snifter. Mocha head with medium retention recedes to hug rim. Chocolate syrup and espresso aromas. Sweet hot chocolate and dark cocoa nibs upfront turning to a warming espresso heat.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
I don’t remember where the hell I bought this 650 ml bottle. The past 30 days have been a blur. Anyhow… Aroma has strong chocolate presence, light charred malt. Light coffee bean hints.
The body is on the fuller creamy side which is what I want in an Impy Stout. Big, rich, roasted maltiness, with deeper roasted barley and molasses, alcohol is lightly noticeable. Carbonation is soft. Finishes light dry and bitter with roasted malt and brunt espresso beans. This impy stout was WAAAY better than I was expecting, nice stuff.