6.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

On tap at The Trafalgar Brewing Company - Kowloon, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma brings out rich roasted malt, some dark espresso, and earthy notes. Flavour is loaded with coal, followed by roasted malt and bitter espresso. A little obscured, but it's alright.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Draft at FOB, Rimini, Italy. Pours pitch black with minimal foam, cream and medium grain. Aroma is coffee and licorice. Body is pretty dense with moderate carbonation. Taste is moderately sweet with decent bitterness. Finish is pretty long and roasty.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

KØLF 080319. Black color with a tan head. Aroma is roasted malt, coffee, chocolate. Flavor is roasted malt, alcohol, coffee, chocolate, licorice, molasses, dried fruits, alcohol. Nice beer.

3.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2

09.04.2015, 0,33l bottle @ home:
Small slightly bubbly shortlasting head. Aroma is slightly sweet grainy, caramel malts, nuts, dark sugar, chocolate, dark malts, sour caramel, hay, grass, alcohol. Taste is kind of harsh, broth, harsh grain, salty caramel, paper, burnt caramel, sour coffee, grass, alcohol, bark. Medium bitterness, harsh boozy mouthfeel. This is not even an imperial stout in my mind. Crap!

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Foggy deep brown. Small creamy head. Nose: estery, fruity, malty. Medium to full body. Taste: malty, lightly roasted, estery, fruity. Not obligatory an impy. But a perfectly tasting dark strong ale.

9

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Attention, Imperial Stout qui déménage….mais pas là où l’on l’attend…Et c’est d’abord par la puissance de l’alcool que celui-ci frappe…fort ! Ce qui est déstabilisant pour un Imperial, mais pas désagréable, d’autant plus que les arômes de café sont également bien présents. Atypique, intéressant, mais un peu lassant sur la fin du verre. Robe noire profond, notre imperial stout ne possède aucune mousse. Le nez est sur le café, cacao, réglisse avec un fond de fumé. L’attaque est très bien équilibrée. On y retrouve le nez avec des épices en plus (poivre). La deuxième bouche voit la réglisse, le café et l’alcool s’affirmer quelque peu. L’arrière bouche est un peu plus sur le chocolat mais relativement linéaire. A partir de la troisième bouche l’alcool devient largement dominant et fait largement ses 10,4 % Abv. Si le final est d’une longueur relativement courte sur un trio alcool/café/chocolat, l’ampleur en bouche de ce stout est assez incroyable avec ce même trio. A tester.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

(Cask at White Horse, Parson's Green, London, 26 Nov 2017) Black colour with brief, beige head. Malty, roasted nose with notes of sweet coffee, liquorice, raisins and some soy sauce. Malty, roasted, vinous taste with strong sweet coffee, dark chocolate, liquorice, soy sauce and a balanced coffee bitterness in a vinous and warming finish. Full body, with a certain sweetness. Quite powerful and on the sweet side, but really tasty and solid imperial stout. Very nice.

5.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

It was an alcoholic stout and didn’t compare to some of the multi-dimensional ones that I have sampled recently. There was malt and alcohol and that was about it. There was no head and no real mouth feel. I know that I am probably being a bit unfair, but there you go!

6.3

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask (gravity) @ 31th Pigs Ear Beer and Cider Festival 2014, at The Round Chapel in Hackney, London, England. [ As Sambrooks Imperial Stout ].Clear dark black brown color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, burnt, soya sauce. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, roasted, soya sauce, dark berries. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20141205] 6-2-7-3-13 Bottle 330ml. [ As Sambrooks Imperial Stout ].Clear dark black brown color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, dark malt, soy sauce, prune - dark fruit. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, dark roasted, molasses, prune, dark malt. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. fnisin feel is light alcoholic. [20150815] 7-3-7-3-14

Way meaty and vinous. Not a fan.