7.9

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

20th December 2025
Can. Near opaque dark brown beer, small bubbly tan head, doesn't last. Smooth palate, a mild viscosity and commensurate amount of fine carbonation. Overall, feel pretty light for an Impy clocking on at 14%. Smooth and rich dark chocolate malts run seamlessly with dark malt cream. Total adjunct fest! I can taste coconut, caramel, maple, coffee, vanilla and cinnamon. Impressively, no one element totally dominates, rather they are bit part players in the overall movie. If historians ever study this craft beer wave, clearly on the wane now, they would be entitled to point at this brew and describe it as the defining adjunct laden imperial stout. Amusing.

6.4

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

Can that Em gave me (bought from Waitrose) - thanks Em, although I know you only got it because you like stealing large tasters of my pastry sours! Murky purpley-red colour with a barely-there baby pink head. Tastes of blackberries, strawberries and rhubarb, with creamy vanilla, yoghurt and sponge cake coming through. There's a light hint of cinnamon in the aftertaste. The mild sourness balances out the fruit sweetness well, but as usual in such brews I feel that the sourness (mild though it is) clashes somewhat with the vanilla and cream. As a result this is far from being my favourite from Vault, although it's perfectly drinkable. Em loved it though!

5.8

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

Can at home. Black color, no head. Aroma is nutty, hazelnuts. Flavor is malts, nuts, hazelnuts, vanilla. Hmm exactly what the label says but it's not really my thing.

7.5

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

440ml can @ Tim's place, Gent. Pours a hazed reddish pink, white foam atop. Smells wondrous.. stewed red berry fruits, crumble fruits, crumble.. flavour continues with prominent strawberry mush, perhaps a light cinnamon suggestion, well presented.. others weren't too keen, but I liked it. Good stuff

7.4

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

On tap at The Star & Garter, Bromley. Aromas of apricot, carrot juice, icing sugar, blood orange. Taste is carrot juice, sweet potato, , more blood orange. Sweet, spicy & lightly tart.

7.9

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

330ml can @ Tim's place, Gent. Pours dark, small tan head. Welcoming nose bringing confident toffee and especially prominent hazelnut coffee syrup, milky latte just about gets a foot in the door on the finish. Very sweet, boosty, slick full bodied sticky mouthfeel. Glad I didn't sink a full can myself.

7.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Cremiger, ziemlich süßer Beginn. Deutlich nussig, etwas herb, cremig, viel Vanille, Toffeenoten. Cremig bleibend, langer Nachhall, gelungen. 10/11/12/12/9/11

7.1

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3

Beeriger, süß würziger Beginn, Laktose, trocken, leicht bitter. Unsüffig, künstlich holzig, muss nicht sein. 9/7/5/6/9/5