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Imperial Java Stout
Santa Fe Brewing Company
- From:
- Santa Fe Brewing Company
- New Mexico, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
Ranked #1,652 - ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- 90
Ranked #8,701 - Avg:
- 4.04 | pDev: 10.4%
- Reviews:
- 255
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 15, 2023
- Added:
- Mar 31, 2007
- Wants:
- 97
- Gots:
- 205
This is the kind of beer that gives the word "stout" a reputation. Extra generous quantities of barley malt, followed by vigorous fermentation leaves this "imperial" heavy weight with 8% alcohol A.B.V. and a body as full as chocolate bread pudding. A complimentary and complex array of bitter notes comes form potent American hops, earthy British hops, black-roasted malts and, of course, coffee. Santa Fe Brewing Company uses only top-quality ingredients like organically grown East Timor coffee beans blended with New Guinea coffee beans, locally roasted by O'hori's Coffee House. Its heavenly flavor and aroma can't be beat or imitated.
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Ratings by Rock360:
Reviewed by Rock360 from Kansas
4.62/5 rDev +14.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.62/5 rDev +14.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
Great beer! Got a 6 pack on sale and really glad I picked it.
Did not pour it, drank from the can so look and smell are just educated guesses (I suppose it looks like a dark stout). Smell from the can is ok, stouts really aren't the greatest smelling imo but this stout you can smell some nice coffee aroma and a complex but good blend. Taste is very good with very nice feel. Very good beer and stouts are not really my thing other than here and there and in the fall maybe like October (I'm not big on October style heavily malted/barley flavored beer, stouts are ok though, have some complexity to them).
Feb 13, 2015Did not pour it, drank from the can so look and smell are just educated guesses (I suppose it looks like a dark stout). Smell from the can is ok, stouts really aren't the greatest smelling imo but this stout you can smell some nice coffee aroma and a complex but good blend. Taste is very good with very nice feel. Very good beer and stouts are not really my thing other than here and there and in the fall maybe like October (I'm not big on October style heavily malted/barley flavored beer, stouts are ok though, have some complexity to them).
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by BigGold from Mississippi
3.78/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Had this Imperial Java Stout poured from 12-oz. can, bottom stamped "BEST BEFORE 04/20/22," into tumbler.
Pours apparently black but very deep brown when backlit, with 1-finger, fizzing, light-tan head, with decent retention, leaving nice Belgian lace down the glass. Big bitter coffee aroma off pour, with some grassy hops and dark fruit as warms. Begins sweet malt and carbonation, hammered almost immediately by bitter coffee, later joined by mild malt for a bit of pleasant toffee flavor, and a dry, mildly bitter finish.
Uncomplicated big mostly bitter coffee stout that hides the ABV nicely.
Feb 01, 2022Pours apparently black but very deep brown when backlit, with 1-finger, fizzing, light-tan head, with decent retention, leaving nice Belgian lace down the glass. Big bitter coffee aroma off pour, with some grassy hops and dark fruit as warms. Begins sweet malt and carbonation, hammered almost immediately by bitter coffee, later joined by mild malt for a bit of pleasant toffee flavor, and a dry, mildly bitter finish.
Uncomplicated big mostly bitter coffee stout that hides the ABV nicely.
Rated by STOOOO from Wisconsin
4.94/5 rDev +22.3%
look: 5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
4.94/5 rDev +22.3%
look: 5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Yum!! Lots of coffee and great mouth feel. Love it!
Oct 25, 2021Reviewed by GoseGuy from New Mexico
5/5 rDev +23.8%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
5/5 rDev +23.8%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
I hate it when I get a "coffee stout" and I have to go hunting for the "coffee". This is immediately recognizable as capital C Coffee. Incredible presence of flavor. Just enough sweetness to be pleasant.
The beer pours black with small tan head. The coffee permeates the aroma and the thick mouthfeel is everything you want in a stout.
May 22, 2021The beer pours black with small tan head. The coffee permeates the aroma and the thick mouthfeel is everything you want in a stout.
Reviewed by Drennan from Oklahoma
4.41/5 rDev +9.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.41/5 rDev +9.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
The Look: Pours brown with a small tan head that goes away quickly
The smell:coffee and some caramel
The taste: first I tasted roasted malt followed by coffee and I think some chocolate and caramel.
The Feel: Full bodied, creamy and thick. I cannot believe this is an 8% beer. It goes down really smooth.
A very good Stout. Will have this again.
Jul 01, 2020The smell:coffee and some caramel
The taste: first I tasted roasted malt followed by coffee and I think some chocolate and caramel.
The Feel: Full bodied, creamy and thick. I cannot believe this is an 8% beer. It goes down really smooth.
A very good Stout. Will have this again.
Reviewed by BeerAndGasMasks from Virginia
4.03/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.03/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Opened an older can (BB 2018), and it pours a very dark brown with a nice big light brown head that very slowly dissipates. In the nose, it is coffee, with some vanilla highlights. In the mouth, it is the same - coffee with vanilla highlights and then black malt. Smooth feel!
Jun 14, 2020Reviewed by Vinatious
4.47/5 rDev +10.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
4.47/5 rDev +10.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
I may be buzzed while I am writing this after drinking it but I am hooked. The feel and texture just feel so smooth along my tongue. The taste is amazing and with other high point beers, you can usually taste the alcohol. This one I had no idea at it was an 8% beer. It's fantastic and will be in the rotation very soon.
Mar 23, 2020
Imperial Java Stout from Santa Fe Brewing Company
Beer rating:
90 out of
100 with
1082 ratings
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