Imperial Chocolate Stout (2009-)
(Batch of Imperial Chocolate Stout)
Sankt Gallen Brewery in Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan 🇯🇵
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.32
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Vestjysk Vinter Vanvid januar 2014. Aroma of fruit and chocolate with a funky touch of brettanomyces. Roasted flavour with dark chocolate, dried fruit, hops and brett, with a bitter, hoppy finish
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle 330ml vintage 2012 @ fonefan
Pours pitch black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, brett and citrus. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter with a long roasted, chocolate and fruity finish. Body is medium to full, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are roast malt, brett, funk, chocolate, licorice and hops.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Black with a lasting light brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, chocolate, coffee and light bretty. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and roasted rather bitter finish. Oily. 180114
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft - Roast malts, bittersweet chocolate and a bit of soy. Jet black with a decent brown head. Burnt malts , coffee and dark chocolate. The burnt malts are a bit off putting for me.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
12 ounce bottle from goodbeer.jp brought over by the wife, arigato. Pours a pure black color with a large brown head. A rich nose of chocolates, pepper and mint. The flavor is mostly dry milk chocolates, some light vanilla, green pepper, light roast. Dark fruit inches in. Very smooth and tasty. Hefty but also easygoing. Damn good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
33 cl bottle thanks to Ingo! Sampled on April 8, 2013. Marked (BB?) 2014.2.14, purchased late December 2012.LAbel also had "2012" marked on it.Clear dark brown color, brown head. Sweet, lactic, alcohol scent. Malty, grainy, dry taste. Dry bitter finish. Medium mouthfeel, medium bitterness. Roasted finish.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Bottle from Yodobashi Camera in Kyoto. It poured a dark inky black with a burnt orange-brown head of foam. The aroma was of a bitter roast malt which was matched in the flavor but also had smokey, caramel, toffee & chocolate notes. I love that they list the IBU, hops & OG on the label and was surprised that they use the exact same hops in the Orange Chocolate Stout: EK Goldings, Cascade, Willamette & Nugget. I agree with KyotoLefty, this beer is quite bitter & would probably benefit from some aging to mellow it out...
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Not sure this deserves a separate listing on account of a slight rise in alcohol, but anyhow...Draught at Bungalow. Black, tan head. Didn’t look so special. Big roasty, creamy aroma, chocolate, some berries, roasted wood, some hops and coffee. Taste was similar with a very bitter finish from hops and roasted barley. Actually too bitter for me, as happens with their BW when very fresh. I would sit on this a while for better drinkability, but it was nice enough.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
33 cl bottle vintage 2010, bottled 14.02.2010
Aroma has cocoa, some espresso coffee and hints of vegetables. Flavour is rather ashy with very dry, dark and bitter chocolate. The malt is too burned here and it lowers the drinkability of this.