Neapolitan Imperial Stout
Steamworks Brewing in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
6.46
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Why choose when you can have all the flavours in one? Picture this, you're rooting through your grandparents freezer and find a tub of Island Farms ice cream. You peel back the lid and see the distinct rows of white, brown, and pink: jackpot. This beer aims to recapture the nostalgia of not having to choose. It's a massive beer stuffed to the brim with as many kinds of strawberries, chocolate, and vanilla as we could get our hands on. Pro Tip: pour it over some ice cream for an adult float.
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5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 5
Overall 5
On tap at The Barley Merchant, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma is rather jumbled, with a strange strawberry character, light cocoa and vanilla, and toasted malt. Flavour is likewise rather jumbled, with plenty of booze, a touch of feint strawberry, cocoa, and earthy toasted malt. The base malts are really thin, lacking a lot of depth. You can’t just dump in adjuncts and ignore the malt character. Leaves plenty to be desired.
Tried
from Draft
at
The Barley Merchant
on 30 Aug 2025
at 03:01
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap at Barley Merchant. Pours dark brown with a beige head. Lots of dark chocolate, gentle roast, and some strawberry on the nose. Flavour has a pretty similar profile; the malts are lacking with little roast and a thin body. Pretty boozy too. Not very well done.
Tried
from Draft
at
The Barley Merchant
on 29 Aug 2025
at 12:02
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
473 ml can. Pours black with moderate fizzy dark tan head that’s settles quickly. Aromas of creamy chocolate, sugary fruit and soft roasty malts. Flavors of dusty chocolate and artifical, sweet strawberry flavoring plus a bit of roasted malts. Finishes with an odd mix of sugar and bitter roasted malts.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Dec 2024
at 00:02
3.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
This was poor. Tinny nose and palate, totally muddled and far too thin. Why bother ?
Tried
on 24 Dec 2024
at 23:30
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from The Gull, North Vancouver; 10% ABV on the can
Black colour. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, vanilla, and a hint of berry. Medium body, the roastiness is stronger than the sweetness, dark cacao and coffee flavour, too much alcohol evidence, some acidity apparently; the vanilla is hidden, and so is the strawberry.
Solid Imperial Stout, but imprecise and rough.
Black colour. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, vanilla, and a hint of berry. Medium body, the roastiness is stronger than the sweetness, dark cacao and coffee flavour, too much alcohol evidence, some acidity apparently; the vanilla is hidden, and so is the strawberry.
Solid Imperial Stout, but imprecise and rough.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Dec 2024
at 18:10
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
16oz (thx, Alex!) @ Ryan's. Appearance: almost black with a dark beige head. Aroma: chocolate, a bit inky, moderately sweet and bold, slightly earthy. A bit artificial. Taste: along the same lines, quite roasty, medium body for 10%, not very sweet. Overall: ok.
Tried
on 05 Dec 2024
at 03:24
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Poured from 473mL can. Very dark brown with small beige head. Roast malt with feint artificial strawberry and vanilla. Not picking up much chocolate surprisingly. Since the adjunct is fairly subdued, it's not as egregious as I had braced for. Okay.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Dec 2024
at 03:08