Black Forest RIS
Martha's Exchange Restaurant & Brewing Company in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.24
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can (2/15/22) pour from The Beer Store, Salem. Glad to see my rating resurrects a beer that's been dead for 10 years! It's an opaque dark brown with thin cap of light brown head, decent viscosity and trace lacing. Aroma is strong earthy malts, molasses/brown bread, wood. Taste reflects aroma. Medium bodied with smooth texture, dry finish with light bitterness. Certainly not a treacly sweet, syrupy RIS but I wish it had been a little sweeter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draft @ Martha’s in a 10 oz. snifter. Thin layer of tan head that laced the snifter on the way down. Nose is roasted malts, chocolate and light wood notes. Flavors of roasted chocolate malt, cream, cocoa powder, raisins and light wood nuances. Secondary flavors of molasses and figs. I noticed a light hop as it warmed up. Full bodied with a nice creamy texture. My friend and I enjoyed this while eating a Chocolate Peanut Butter pie desert. It was a perfect complement to the pie. Well worth a try.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Comes to the table a solid black color with a good sized tan head that slowly dissipates but never leaves. Smells of roast, chocolate, licorice, molasses, wood, and earthy hops. The flavor follows the aroma quite well with lots of milk chocolate and dark burnt sugars up front. A moderate amount of dark fruits and woody notes with a balancing earthy hop flavor round things out nicely. Thick body with a light level of carbonation and a sweet creamy velvety mouthfeel. This is a nice thick stout, I quite enjoyed it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
on tap-pours black with a rich brown head. Aroma is rich dark malt-roasty/chocolate. Taste is rich dark malt-roasty/chocolate, wood, 2nd earthy hops.