Inebriator Stout
Sonoran Brewing Company

Looks this was just called "Sonoran Imperial Stout" before they put the Inebriator on it. This is when it was the silver and black label.

Pours plenty black, with a brown head, 1" in full, looks pretty. All roasted barley going on in the smells, gives you that hint of coffee from the heavily scorched malt.

Has a big roasty, chewy taste and mouth feel, elements of dark fruit bitterness, light smoke charring going on. Plenty of alcohol notes to pick up on. For me its a little weird to have such a big, roasty beer be practically your flagship in Phoenix of all places. I didn't pick up any of the compromised/infected notes that others have spoke of, this was just a big ol pile of roasted barley and a little bit of ashy smoke char notes.

Is this brewery open anymore? Haven't went the last few times in Arizona. Was decently priced for the bomber format. I think I paid like $5 or 6.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks through the cold & thinning air to the fine trader who shipped this my way as an extra, the last survivor of a fine trade. 22 oz. bottle that's as black as the beer, split with my wife.

Pour is a black that would look good on a Bad Religion flag. Smell is teeming with fruit-soaked malts, & I don't mean that in a good way. Fruity stouts are my kyrptonite. Edgy roast adds to the raised eyebrow.

Inebriator Stout would have a serious fruit-fly problem if left out overnight. Big cherry notes are mingled uncomfortably with a roasted sweetness, & as it warms, the fruitiness takes on a tart, acidic overtone. After about six sips, I have ascertained that this isn't good.

Unfortunate, but this is going to the drain. Not sure what went wrong, but all of the good-sounding stuff on the label is lost in the red fruit mash-up. A bad beer.

 

 

Bomber from Dak. Thanks! Pours black with a nice big creamy brown head. Big roasty aroma with some definite hops in the background, maybe some chocolate and hints of coffee. Creamy mouthfeel with huge roast flavor. Some lingering bittersweet chocolate left on the palate but mostly roasted roastiness. Some decent bitter. Low to medium carbonation. A bit of lingering alcohol on the end. Overall not bad.

 

A - Good looking beer, nice thick brown head that dissipates down pretty quickly, but leaves a nice lacing on the glass. Cool bottle.

S - Unfortunate. Vinegar is prevalent, I can tell there's coffee, chocolate and roasted malts in there but it's overpowered by the spoiled smell.

T - Same as the smell. There's definitely what would have been coffee/chocolate/roasted malt in there. Vinegar taste is again pretty bad.

M - Light for an imperial stout. Alc covered. Some roasty aftertaste but still the vinegar.

O - Damn, this must have been a bad bottle. I don't remember the vinegar taste when I had it before. Swing and a miss. Drain pour.

 

 

Difficult to judge this one, since it appears as though the batch has been infected, or they've over-carbonated - the bottle let out a crazy loud pssshh noise, and immediately started gushing like champagne, and it took me about 30 minutes to pour it into a glass, all the while the foam pouring out of the bottle, even when the bottle was 3/4 empty. Sure did like the taste of the foam I had to suck off as I waited though. All that crazy fluffiness aside, it is the promised opaque dark black color with zero transparancy, and the head is a nice tan color. I have to ding it for the crazy endless fluff though.

Chocolately, coffee, rich aroma. Smells like a nice, complex, huge stout.

Burnt dark malt, followed by a mild dark chocolate, nice balanced bitterness between hops and malt… not too sweet, not too bitter, complex flavor - very nice!

Moderately heavy, smooth, extremely heavy carbonation (at least when it comes to the froth, though it doesn't come across in the actual sips, which is good, so I feel like I can get a good feel for what it's "supposed" to feel like). Not dinging it for the froth - since it doesn't feel that way in the mouth.

It's a bummer about the bad bottle gusher, because I think this is a very good imperial stout. I have to ding it a tad for that, but other than that it's very nice, and I'd have it again for sure.

Pours a solid black color with a huge unwavering tan head. Smells of light roast, dark pitted fruits, chocolate, brown sugar, and a whole lot of molasses. The flavor is a nice mix of burnt sugars and dark fruit. Light earthy hop flavor help provide balance. Medium to thick body with a light level of carbonation and a tart creamy mouthfeel. Nice imperial stout, I'm glad I got to try it.