Bottle. Pours black with a yellowish brown head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has rich dark grains and roasted malts with a bit of chocolate underlying. Flavor has nice combination of dark grains and roasted malts with a hint of bitter chocolate underlying.

Bottle. Pours a clear amber with a near white head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of stale bread and earthy grains with a bit of nuttiness underlying. Flavor more of a nuttiness with some sweet grains and a growing earthiness through the finish.

Bottle: Pours black with a thin, dark tan head. Aroma is chocolate, sugar, sweet raisin. Taste is dark, dried fruit, roast chocolate, ash.... A little bit of boozy bitterness and warmth. Notes of vanilla, sticky feel, lactic. Nice.....but a little on the sweet side.

600 ml bottle into tulip glass, no bottle dating. Pours slightly cloudy reddish copper color with a 2 finger dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass. Aromas of caramel, toast, toffee, nuttiness, brown sugar, brown bread, biscuit, pear, apple, floral, herbal, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with solid complexity and balance of dark/bready malt, Brazil nuts, and yeast ester notes; with solid strength. Taste of caramel, toast, toffee, nuttiness, brown sugar, biscuit, brown bread, light chocolate, pear, apple, herbal, floral, and yeast earthiness. Minimal bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, toffee, toast, nuttiness, brown sugar, biscuit, brown bread, light chocolate, pear, apple, herbal, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice balance and robustness of dark/bready malt, Brazil nut, and yeast ester flavors; with zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Medium carbonation and medium-full bodied; with a moderate creamy and lightly slick mouthfeel that is good. Alcohol is well hidden with only a slight warming present after the finish. Overall this is a nice imperial brown ale, but it pretty much feels like an ESB in flavor. Good balance and robustness of dark/bready malt, Brazil nut, and yeast ester flavors; and smooth to sip on for the ABV. A nicely enjoyable offering.

New Beer Distributors, NYC 50cl ($9): Pours murky brown with a tan head. Aroma is a bit nutty and plenty malty. Taste is somewhat sweet. Non-descript. It be a little sweet. Leaves some lightly roasty aftertaste. Kind of all over the place. This was my first beer in a few weeks and was not a great intro back into beer.

Bottle from a random grocery store, Copacabana, Rio. My last beer of the trip and it wasn’t bad at all. Hazy amber pour with a fair size white head. Citrus, spice and wheat in the nose.The flavour was on the sweet side and followed suit. Pretty drinkable stuff and a million times better than what is readily available in Brazil. I’d definitely recommend trying to track down these Colorado beers. The store I got these at is not far from Praca Serzedelo Correira on Rua Domingos Ferreira if that helps! There’s an excellent Cachaca shop on the same road near the park opposite a sex shop which has a huge range of Brazilian spirits.

Bottle from a grocery store, not far from Praca Serzedelo Correira on Rua Domingos Ferreira, Copacabana, Rio. Awesome name, drank it at 420 in my hotel. Dark orange pour with a small white head. Some nice fruit and hop notes present in the nose. Thankfully some decent hop presence in the flavour too which had some balancing sweet malt, a hint of spice and some pleasant orange notes. Decent dry bitter finish. What a result to come across this beer -. an oasis in a sea of crap lager. Expensive, but this has to be up there with the very best Brazilian beers.

Bottle. Pours a golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity citrus hoppy aroma. Fruity malty citrus hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty citrus hoppy finish.

Tap at Beer Authortity NYC, as ’Guanabara’ imperial stout, 23/11/13. Mid black with a decent tan covering. Nose is big roast malts, molasses, earthy cocoa, dark toffee, vanilla, light booze. Taste comprises rich dark chocolate, roast malt, brown sugars, toffee fudge, tar, leather, earthy. Medium bodied with bite, fine carbonation, light roasty tones in a booze coated closure. Ok impy.