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Imperial Porter
Thomas Hooker Brewing Company
- From:
- Thomas Hooker Brewing Company
- Connecticut, United States
- Style:
- Baltic Porter
- ABV:
- 8.7%
- Score:
- 91
- Avg:
- 4.07 | pDev: 11.79%
- Reviews:
- 283
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 30, 2018
- Added:
- Nov 30, 2003
- Wants:
- 66
- Gots:
- 19
Full bodied and rich color, our imperial porter has hints of roasted coffee, cocoa with a generous hop finish. Dark roasted malts blended with the crispness of English hops, this beer is smooth yet complex.
65 IBU
65 IBU
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Ratings by GratefulBeerGuy:
Reviewed by GratefulBeerGuy from New Hampshire
4.52/5 rDev +11.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
4.52/5 rDev +11.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Bottled in 2005 consumed on 12/14/06
A big fat 1QT and 1.8 Fl oz.>Oversize wine chalice.
AP: Pours a totally opaque darkest brown color with an enormous 3" fluffy and frothy mocha colored head (included some spots of orange mixed in)...dissipated very slowly while leaving a thick ring of lacing on the glass. Very appealing.
Nose: Wow, very aromatic! Wicked sweet malted scent with a roasted coffee edge that tingles the nose.There's some hints of vanilla and dark berries underneath while finishing with an herbal and earthy hop.
Taste: Yeah...this is a roasty, dark chocolate, caramalized malted flavor with a mildlybitter dark coffee effect that hits your taste buds HARD! This one finishes with a delightful earthy, leafy and semi-bitter hop. THis is a bad-ass and very bold tasting porter.
MF: Big full body look and feel with a thick and frothy head that gives this porter a hefty overall feel on tha palate. This one is rather lively and supplies a good amount of bite for this style.
DA: This is a heavy weight Porter, this is the George Foreman of Porters! It could give some of the RIS stouts a run for the money in every catagory. I had no problem finishing of the Quart size bomber...but two would be way too many!! Good stuff.
Dec 15, 2006A big fat 1QT and 1.8 Fl oz.>Oversize wine chalice.
AP: Pours a totally opaque darkest brown color with an enormous 3" fluffy and frothy mocha colored head (included some spots of orange mixed in)...dissipated very slowly while leaving a thick ring of lacing on the glass. Very appealing.
Nose: Wow, very aromatic! Wicked sweet malted scent with a roasted coffee edge that tingles the nose.There's some hints of vanilla and dark berries underneath while finishing with an herbal and earthy hop.
Taste: Yeah...this is a roasty, dark chocolate, caramalized malted flavor with a mildlybitter dark coffee effect that hits your taste buds HARD! This one finishes with a delightful earthy, leafy and semi-bitter hop. THis is a bad-ass and very bold tasting porter.
MF: Big full body look and feel with a thick and frothy head that gives this porter a hefty overall feel on tha palate. This one is rather lively and supplies a good amount of bite for this style.
DA: This is a heavy weight Porter, this is the George Foreman of Porters! It could give some of the RIS stouts a run for the money in every catagory. I had no problem finishing of the Quart size bomber...but two would be way too many!! Good stuff.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by hoptheology from California
3.72/5 rDev -8.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.72/5 rDev -8.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
12 oz bottle from connecticutpoet. No bottle date, may be a cellar item.
Pours an odd muddy purple-brown color with no head, yet oddly slightly broken lace forms on the glass.
Aroma is HUGE actually...has a nice mix of vanilla spice, heavy tobacco and leather, slight burnt chocolate. Much like cheap cigars in a car stacked with vanilla-roma trees.
Flavors are heavy on tobacco, with slight redeeming milk chocolate, slight ash, slight astringent dark berry, and a huge smack of leather on the finish. The nose, translating to the palate, does not work as well in my opinion. Like rolled dessert cigars.
Feel is creamy but a bit under-carbonated, leading me to think this is probably a few years old. Lingering resins.
Overall, I'd say this was a decent beer but that palate is just ugly. It'll destroy anything before and after that you've had, I think you really have to have an attachment to cheap dessert cigarillos to appreciate this one.
Jul 30, 2018Pours an odd muddy purple-brown color with no head, yet oddly slightly broken lace forms on the glass.
Aroma is HUGE actually...has a nice mix of vanilla spice, heavy tobacco and leather, slight burnt chocolate. Much like cheap cigars in a car stacked with vanilla-roma trees.
Flavors are heavy on tobacco, with slight redeeming milk chocolate, slight ash, slight astringent dark berry, and a huge smack of leather on the finish. The nose, translating to the palate, does not work as well in my opinion. Like rolled dessert cigars.
Feel is creamy but a bit under-carbonated, leading me to think this is probably a few years old. Lingering resins.
Overall, I'd say this was a decent beer but that palate is just ugly. It'll destroy anything before and after that you've had, I think you really have to have an attachment to cheap dessert cigarillos to appreciate this one.
Reviewed by CTHomer from Connecticut
3.75/5 rDev -7.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -7.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
A: dark brown; opaque; 1 finger medium tan head that receded slowly to a thin cap; very nice lacing;
S: milk chocolate, roasted grains; dark fruit;
T: milk chocolate up front, then roasted grains and dark fruit; bittersweet chocolate at the finish; mild to moderate, long lasting bitterness at the end;
M: medium bodied; moderate carbonation; dry finish; hides the ABV well;
O: nicely done;
Oct 31, 2015S: milk chocolate, roasted grains; dark fruit;
T: milk chocolate up front, then roasted grains and dark fruit; bittersweet chocolate at the finish; mild to moderate, long lasting bitterness at the end;
M: medium bodied; moderate carbonation; dry finish; hides the ABV well;
O: nicely done;
Rated by Keithp3939 from Connecticut
3.9/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.9/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Great beer! Aroma was pleasant, flavor and taste enhanced by leaving it out for a while. A solid offering.
Jan 30, 2015
Imperial Porter from Thomas Hooker Brewing Company
Beer rating:
91 out of
100 with
360 ratings
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