Czar Jack Imperial Stout
Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.87
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8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Growler, shared by Nightfall. It pours a black body under a finger-thick tan head. Licorice, roasted malts, soy notes, molasses and alcohol on the nose. It’s full-bodied and warming, sort of sticky sweet, yet dry on the palate. The flavor too is quite intense, with soy sauce notes, molasses and a roasted touch. Lasting finish. Overall, a wonderful beer, but it’s too intense and sweet to be really enjoyable in more than small doses. I think. 110820
Tried
from Growler
on 20 Aug 2011
at 17:45
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Jet black with a small tan head. Aroma dominated by oak, with some licorice and chocolate and alcohol. Sweet vanilla, oak and chocolate flavour. Well brewed and intense in flavour but a little primitive with all that oak character dominating the beer.
Tried
on 20 Aug 2011
at 17:34
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Growler @ TFODRBSG11, Ulfborg
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt. chocolate, coffee, bourbon, vanilla and oak. Taste is medium to heavy sweet and light to medium bitter.Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt. chocolate, coffee, bourbon, vanilla and oak. Taste is medium to heavy sweet and light to medium bitter.Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Growler
on 20 Aug 2011
at 17:30
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Growler at DLD. Left along the row of dead solders at the curb across from Floyds. Solid black with deep brown tan head. A lot of cherry in the nose and a little bit of alcohol. Solid taste. Smooth with some noticeable roast malt to it. Alcohol is quite strong. More like dried cherry leather but quite tasty. Except for an increasing note of malt roast, it’s very smooth. Alcohol is warming, not burning.
Tried
from Growler
on 05 May 2011
at 21:17
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
2004 vintage, I assume, hand bottled by Footbalm and sampled with MartinT, Muzzlehatch, Rastacouere and Tiggmtl on 3/25/05. For being bottled from a growler, this sure did pour a wonderful tan head atop a dark black/dark-mahogany brown body. The head was about one-finger high and quickly diminishing, probably due more to the alcohol and barrel-aging. Aroma has notes of vanilla, sour-mash whiskey, lightly charred oak, thick, salty chocolate and bitter black malt. Light alcohol esters are perceived, but it is not anything out of the ordinary for a barrel aged Imperial stout. Flavor, for me, was incredibly over-aged in the bourbon. It was sharp, alcoholic, acidic, bitter and just intensely dominated by the bourbon. Dry wood notes, stinging whiskey and light smokiness all make me cringe as I drink it. I did love the body, however, which was rich, creamy and thick to the last drop. As the beer finished and there was some respite from the barrel, a velvety, sweet chocolate flavor emerged, that had been hiding behind the barrel-flavors. This is the good part, and I thought it a shame that the barrel masked this through most of the flavor experience. Low carbonation, very well-made stout with a rich body, but just way too much harsh barrel-character, at least for my tastes. If this had a subtle barrel character, my score would be more like a 9/5/8/5/17
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2005
at 19:31