Lizard Of Koz
Founders Brewing Company

Copenhagen 13/10 2019. 75 cl bottle from Meny, Rotunden, Hellerup. Solemn Lizard looking mysterious on the label.

Pours opaque dark brown with a quite big beige head. Settles as thin but frothy layer of foam just managing to cover the surface of the beer and crawling up the sides of the glass. Substantial lacing.

Aroma is intense, rich and balanced between choclte sweetness and some more complex bitterness. Dark chocolate, toffee, molasses, brown sugar. Vanilla and Leather. Quite acerbic citric notes in the background. Boozy Bourbon Barrels.

Light carbonation. Quite thick, viscous, sticky texture.

Flavor has a strong sweetness followed by a medium strong citric, sourness. Aftertaste is bitter-sweet with a surprisingly strong citric streak. Lingering. Moderate Boozy Burn.

The Lizard may look like it does not care. But a rich but a bit unusual Imperial Stout which is sweet and boozy on one hand and surprisingly tart on the other.

 

Black color. Beautiful, beige head. Vanilla, chocolate, dark fruits in aroma. The taste is really sweet with some roasted bitterness at the end. Flavor of chocolate, bourbon and berries. Good beer, but too sweet to be great, as for my taste. A good candidate for aging.

 

Mellowed out compared to when I had it on draft ~6 years ago. Better than Saugatuck Blueberry Maple probably, but definitely no Paisley Cave.

 

 

 

On tap at Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. Pitch black colour, moderate tan head. Enticing aroma, roast malts, chocolate, vanilla and bourbon. Can’t say I can detect the blueberries. In the flavour the blueberries come through quite distinctly though, with a fruitiness that meets the sweetness of the malts. The expected notes of chocolate, vanilla and bourbon are there, but more in the background. Too sweet and fruity for an imperial stout? Perhaps, but this is a great beer anyway.

2015 Bottle
750ml bottle poured into a tulip

A- pours jet black in color with a one-finger foamy khaki head that has good retention before settling to a film floating on top

S- aroma is dominated by blueberry; stewed blueberries up front followed by some blueberry candy notes. Undertones of chocolate, vanilla, wet oak, molasses and caramelized sugar

T- as with the aroma blueberry dominates the flavor; stewed blueberries up front, with a slightly artificial blueberry note that follows. almost like sugary candy. Beyond the blueberry, undertones of cocoa, vanilla cream, caramel and a hint of coffee. The finish gives like bourbon oak, with an onslaught of blueberries in the linger

M- medium-heavy body with moderate carbonation leads to a thick and creamy mouthfeel that continues into a velvety warming finish

O- blueberry and more blueberry, my only complaint is that it's so dominate that it turns slightly artificial in the finish

 

 

This stout is one of my all time favorites. Thick body, heavy dark chocolate notes and juicy blueberry sweetness, with a nice booze balance. Unbelievably good beer!