Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Pours brown with a large pale tan head.
Nose shows soft roasted malt, golden syrup, brown sugar, spicy phenols and cloves.
Flavours include brown sugar, golden syrup, sultanas, booze.
Not sure about "imperial stout", more of a quad. But nice nonetheless.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
From a 330ml bottle on 2/1/2026 (shared by Ed with thanks). Pours a dark brown with a biggish light tan head. The nose is lightly fruity with some chocolate notes. Tastes reasonably sweet, featuring dark and dried fruit, a good dash of chocolate and a touch caramel, proceeding to a lightish bitterness featuring some Belgian yeast at the back. The palate is slick the carbonation moderate. As some other raters have noted, it probably presents more as a mix of a strong dark Belgian ale and a quad, than an imperial stout. Still, it's very tasty and quite smashable for the size. Nice stuff.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
A small bottle from the off-licence opposite Jing Mei fire station. Aroma: very malty. Appearance: opaque cola, a couple of fingers of tan cream. Palate: full-bodied and slick, average carbonation; finish is long, alcohol is quite discreet. Taste: heavily sweet with malt; unsophisticated and one-dimensional. I would hardly consider this an imperial stout, though I appreciate the booze.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Medium copper/brown with a tan head. Malty with plenty of ripe fruits, some spice from the yeast, cracked a black pepper. Medium to full body. Finishes nice and spicy with background fruit and malt notes. A really nice beer that maybe isn’t exceptional but very welcome.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle 33cl. @home poured into a tulip glass, bit hazy deep golden colour, tall frothy white head, good retention, good lacing. Aroma sweet malt, grain, banana, apricot, coriander, yeast. Taste medium sweet and light bitter, malty, apricot, orange peel, coriander. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation, grainy sweetbitter aftertaste, fruity notes, well-balanced, tasty, good.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Herb-malziger Beginn, kräutrig, weich, getreidig, etwas hefig. Die Kräuternoten steigen an, schwacher Hintergrund, kein Nachgeschmack. 10/8/6/6/6/6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
bottle @ venenum (budapest) reddish colour, semi body, reddish head, normal texture, smells like raspberry, taste like raspberries and maybe other berries :) really fruity, easy to drink
Not a good bottle