Arcadia Brewing Co. Imperial Stout

Imperial Stout

 

Arcadia Brewing Co. in Elk Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production
Score
7.26
ABV: 9.0% IBU: 90 Ticks: 56
Our extraordinary Imperial Stout is black as midnight with a rich, palate-warming mouth feel. It offers an alluring aroma of dark roasted malts and blackstrap molasses with a hint of smoke. The flavor features notes of coffee, bittersweet cocoa, black licorice and hint of prune. A generous addition of hops contributes complexity and balance plus a pleasantly astringent finish. With proper aging, our Imperial Stout matures for up to fours years. Winner of a prestigious Gold Medal for Bottle Condition Ale at 2002 Real Ale Festival.
 

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7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

35,5 cl bottle @ NISBWG ’20 Aroma has salty licorice and chocolate. Flavour has herbal tones, salty licorice and malty notes. Salty but balanced.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Feb 2020 at 13:18


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

12oz bottle pours out black topped with a tan head. Nose is chocolate ash tray notes pit fruit notes. Taste is more of the nice sweet malts chocolate ash and some dark fruit notes.

Tried from Bottle on 15 May 2018 at 20:54


7

Tried on 26 Jun 2016 at 20:57


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

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black color with a medium sized dark brown head that lingered and left good lacing. The aroma was strong anise, roasty malts, chocolate and red wine. The flavor was robust and intense with roasty malts, anise, red wine, chocolate and vanilla. Long finish. Moderately full bodied. Well done.

Tried from Bottle on 08 May 2016 at 12:55


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

355 ml bottle, 2010 vintage, at home. Black color with nice beige-brown head. Aroma is roasted malty with a lot of coffee, chocolate, some vanilla and wood, fruity (blackberries?) and some alcohol. Taste is light sweet and it becomes heavy bitter almost from the beginning. Coffee and chocolate again in the taste. Medium body, creamy, soft carbonation, nice alcoholic warming bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Jul 2014 at 12:21


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

9th May 2014
Leighton 10K tasting at Bruce’s pad. Thanks to Leighton for this vintage stout. Opaque dark brown beer, small pale tan head. Light palate. Oxidised dark malt, tangy too. Trace of dark fruits. Light dry finish. Cleary a little weary but still interesting.

Tried on 15 May 2014 at 08:27


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle split at the Black (IPA) Friday tasting, 2010 vintage, thanks to LKS 09/05/14. Black with a moderate tan covering that thins to edgework. Nose is fruit cake, light spice, figs, dates, dark chocolate, raisens. Tase comprises much the same. Medium + body, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Decent impy, has aged gracefully, alcohol well integrated.

Tried from Bottle on 11 May 2014 at 12:22


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle shared in London - picked up in NYC way back when I lived there. As such, this is a 2010 vintage. Nice aroma, some sugary milk chocolate, dark fruits, Hershey’s chocolate bar. Medium sweet flavor, lots of aged, liquefied dark fruits, chocolate, dark cherries, soft wood, mellow bitterness. Medium to full bodied with fine carbonation. Well balanced on the finish, lightly warming, good rainy character, milk chocolate, other dark fruits. Really nicely balanced and deep. Has aged quite well!

Tried from Bottle on 09 May 2014 at 14:16


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle thanks to Leighton. It pours darkest brown with a minimal light tan head. The nose is toasty, earthy, coffee, cocoa, dirt and fudge. The taste is rich, sweet, dirty, toffee, caramel, candy, toast, earth, light spice, dirt and wood with a dry finish. Medium and fine carbonation. Fine.

Tried from Bottle on 09 May 2014 at 14:08


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

From a 12 oz bottle shared at home. Pours black with a tan head. Milk chocolate nose. Flavors of licorice, roasted grains, and hints of bittersweet chocolate. Medium to heavy body, moderate carbonation, Bitter roasted finish.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Feb 2014 at 18:55