Sasquatch - Imperial Chocolate Milk Stout
903 Brewers in Sherman, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
6.36
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Poured up on tap at Tipsy where it exhibits a deep dark chocolate colored body that supports a nice tan head of foam. The aroma offers up murmurs of berry fruitiness flowing into milk chocolate and then thin dark roasted malts. The taste delivers various berry fruitiness rolling into chocolate and increasingly darker roasted malts. The taste threatens to ground the experience on an atol of over sweet borderline fake tasting fruitiness. The mild chocolate and roasted malts somehow steer this ship away from a prolonged disaster. 7 4 8 4 14
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1
This is the closest thing to a drain pour I've had In a loooong time. 12 oz. can purchased in San Antonio, TX. Pitch black pour with dark ruby highlights and a fizzy medium brown head and good retention. Spotty lacing. Aroma of dark booze. Flavors of black licorice and in-your-face booze. Any other would-be flavors are drowned out by alcohol. Ugh! This stuff would be better served for cleaning windshields!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
An imperial stout will always get my attention. One from Texas, hell yeah. I got a six pack of Sasquatch in the can from the Cellar sometime back. This is my first try. Lift the tab and tilt into my ABGB tulip glass. The appearance, not that different from most if not all imperial stouts, glorious. Blacker than the ace of spades with a healthy pitch brown head, nice. The scent, milk chocolate and strawberry jam. Now a drink. Nice again, lightly chocolate, coal, straw, toffee sweet, a firm bitterness surrounding. Softer than many of its kind, still quite good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Super rich dark brown coloured body with a oily sheen on top and a very small tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, alcohol, nuts, lactose, cream, coffee, oak and quite a bit of vanilla - no real alcohol coming off the smell though. Medium-bodied; Relatively thinnish feel right afterwards with a lot of roasted malt and coffee flavours, some light oak, caramelised sugars and vanilla with a hint of earth and mushrooms, but fairly mild near the end. Aftertaste hits the roasty notes with coffee and earth, all with a pleasant sweetness, but no real body nor depth or complexity make this one-dimensional. Overall, a decent imperial stout at best and lacking in complexity and body with some decent flavours, just nothing different/drastic or complex throughout the entire beer. Still, it’s always nice to have an imperial stout in a can, especially one from half the country away. I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased from Spec’s in Dallas, Texas on 11-November-2015 for US$3,46 sampled at home in Washington on 08-September-2016.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
12 ounce can courtesy of SecretSanta. Thanks! Old school pull tab. Inky dark brown, large foamy brown head, good retention. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, sweet lactose-y finish. The taste is roasted malt, chocolate, lactose, hints of mint and dark fruit. Medium bodied, smooth, hints of booze. Nice beer.