The Tsars Revenge Imperial Stout
Chelsea Craft Brewing Company in Bronx, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.15
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Drought. Dark brown with reddish tint, disappointing small beige foamy head, strong coffee aroma, high carbonation, burnt malt taste, long finish. Good bite at the end but felt more like a porter tan stout.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Clear dark black brown colour with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, light tart malt, light to moderate yeasty. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet, light light acidic and moderate to heavy bitter with a long duration, tart malt, roasted, chocolate, dark fruit, yeasty. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20130111]
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Nice head with good duration. Color is dark brown. Aroma and taste are roast malt, caramel, fruits, wood and hops.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Black with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, coffee and chocolate. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and roasted moderate bitter finish. 110113
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Very dark brown with small beige head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, dark fruits and yeast. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, yeast, little acid, berries, hop, little sweet and a little bitter.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours black with a bubbly white head. Tart and dusty. Roast, charcoal and dark fruit. Smooth and full bodied. Spicy roasted end.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On draft at the Stag’s Head in NYC. Opaque black. Gorgeous full brown head. This beer instantly makes you hope the beauty is not only skin deep. Massive chocolate and roasted malts on the nose. Coffee notes as well. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with a slick, viscous texture overriding the taste, surprisingly a little thin. Palate of roasted malts and coffee - nothing of the chocolate from the aroma. This is a good stout, but I was led-on at the beginning to hope for more.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
11th October 2008. GABF. Smooth silky stout. A little toasty malt. Very much lke the Blackhole but just a little more refined.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
GABF 2007. A pitch black beer with a bubbly brown head. The aroma is sweet with a slight acidic note from the roasted malt, as well as notes of chocolate and coffee. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of dark milk chocolate as well as a bitter hoppy note. The alcohol burns slightly in the mouth before a dry bitter chocolaty finish sets in.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Draught tulip at Hop Devil Grill on 1/13/07
Dark, black chocolate colored body has hints of caramel and milk chocolate notes. A moderately dense, dull-tan head, flecked with greyish-beige sits atop at about one finger in height. Moderate retention, though once it begins to fade, it fizzles to a ring. Little to no lacing.
Straightforward chocolate malt notes mix with the caramel malt to produce a sweet, chocolatey, moderately roasty start to the nose. Smooth and silky on the nose, it fills up the senses well. Bits of dry vanilla and lactic buttercream notes creep in with old, ash-like black malt notes sitting on the finish. The sweetness dosent seem overdone, and rather it’s quite well balanced by the vanilla, sweet/sour buttercream and very dry ashiness. But I’m not quite sure those are the flavors I’m looking for, especially the ashiness, which casts a dullness over the beer and gives it a slightly stale feel in the nose. Minor fruitiness, cherries and light plums, emerge after warming and perhaps the dullness is cast back somewhat. No alcohol noted in the nose.
Sweet caramel is tempered immediately by a light lactic note. Prunes and dark chocolate notes are well-integrated in to the flavor as well, sitting piquantly in the background. Butter toffee (can’t seem to dodge the sweet buttercream notes which aren’t wholly pleasant) and more vanilla creaminess swell about the palate with very tame roastiness that keeps the balance on the sweet side. Extremely soft, velvety palate is by far the best quality here. Unfortunately, there is a strong soy-like presence on the end, signifying some oxidation of the dark malts. It’s a rather nutty, chewy blandness, which, when intertwined with the ashiness, leaves a slightly unpleasant finish. No alcohol noted in the flavor and the soft carbonation and velvety texture makes it quite drinkable. Not sure how old this one is, no doubt it has some age on it. Interesting and mostly well-made, but the finish and some of the buttery-sweet malts need looking in to. Not overdone in any way, though, so that’s always a plus.