Elder Pine Brewing & Blending Imperator

Imperator

 

Elder Pine Brewing & Blending in Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸

  Smoked / Rauchbier Rotating Out of Production
Score
7.37
ABV: 11.0% IBU: 30 Ticks: 5
Imperial German-style Rauchbier (Smoked Lager) brewed with a grain-bill containing 75% smoked malts. Imperator is intensely smokey! The flavor & aroma profile is very smoke forward, oozing with notes of a winter camp fire with a malty caramelly backbone.
 

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7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

More barrel and toffee, booze than smoke. The latter gets lost in the bigness here. Dark brown pour with decent head. Sweet boozy end with some bitterness. Some prune. Beastie would like this. Tap at brewery. 838316

Tried from Draft on 11 Jul 2024 at 17:06


7.8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7

Opaque chestnut, small creamy beige head, good lacing. Aroma is woody, boozy whiskey, hint of smoke. Flavor is medium sweet, charred wood, jim beam. Medium body, creamy mouthfeel. Fullish body 5,7,7,5,14

Tried on 13 Nov 2023 at 00:37


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

10-13-23 CBC

Tried on 14 Oct 2023 at 03:39


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

16 oz can from jcos, thanks bud! Poured this one into my This Week in Rauchbier glass, because that's proper glassware, 10/4/22. Pours a mostly clear dark reddish color with an off-white head. Peat smoke and wood smoke forward with oak, earth, and roast as well. Some sweet malt, caramel notes toward the finish to round out the smoke, but this is a smoke forward beer. It's a particularly cold and rainy (hasn't stopped raining for days) autumn day here in Central NJ, and this beer is made for this weather, so it is really hitting great for me right now.

Tried from Can on 04 Oct 2022 at 20:17


8

Clear brown body small foamy tan head. Toffee bready caramel smoke aroma. Smoke caramel toasty bready flavor. Full body moderate carbonation. 8/4/8/4/15 3.9

Tried from Draft on 30 Apr 2022 at 16:29