You Just Got Jammed
Witch's Hat Brewing Co.

16 ounce prowler into snifter, filled on 12/1/2018. Pours opaque dark brown/black color with a 1 finger dense and rocky tan head with awesome retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Dense soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a light amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, peanut butter, juicy strawberries, fruit skin/seeds, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, toasted biscuit, and dark bread; with lighter notes of vanilla, licorice, molasses, smoke, charcoal, raisin, fig, tobacco, herbal, pepper, pine, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/black/roast/bready malts, PB, strawberries, and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with great strength. Taste of huge milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, peanut butter, juicy strawberries, fruit skin/seeds, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, toasted biscuit, and dark bread; with lighter notes of vanilla, licorice, molasses, smoke, charcoal, raisin, fig, tobacco, herbal, pepper, pine, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate pine, herbal, peppery hop; roast/charred bitterness; and light fruit tang/tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, peanut butter, juicy strawberries, fruit skin/seeds, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, toasted biscuit, dark bread, vanilla, licorice, molasses, smoke, charcoal, raisin, fig, tobacco, herbal, pepper, pine, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/black/roast/bready malts, PB, strawberries, and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a nice hop/char bitter/sweet balance, and minimal acrid/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering hop/char bitterness. Light-medium carbonation and fairly full body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/velvety/bready, and fairly sticky/resinous/chalky/tangy/tannic balanced mouthfeel that is great. Mildly increasing warmth of 9% after the finish. Overall this is a fantastic flavored imperial stout! All around outstanding complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/black/roast/bready malts, PB, strawberries, and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to drink with the modestly bitter/resinous/charred/drying finish, not overly aggressive. Amazing balance of rich malts, jammy strawberry, and PB flavors; with nice earthy hop presence/balance against sweetness. A highly enjoyable offering. Would have preferred it a bit less bitter/drying, but still really impressive all around.