Imperial Smells Like Bean Spirit - Blueberry
Mikerphone Brewing

 

 

 

 

Tasted in a tumbler from draft at the Mikerphone Brewing tap room on July 21, 2018. Imperial breakfast stout brewed with maple syrup, coffee and blueberries.

 

 

Blueberry was present but the maple was not.

 

On draft. Dark black body, one finger offwhite head. Blueberry pancakes, slightly roasty coffee, with a decent maple sweetness undergirding the entire thing. It's a bit thinner than usual, presumably from the fruit addition, but is otherwise medium bodied, reasonably viscous with a nice fruitiness to it that definitely makes it different than the other variants and definitely when compared to the regular version. I can see it being a love it or hate it variant, but that's the case for fruits and stouts in general, isn't it?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On tap at the brewery - Elk Grove Village, IL. Black body with a purple-brown head that fades to a foam. Smells like blueberry pancakes - Cracker Barrel perhaps - blueberry, lots of maple syrup, minimal coffee. Very sweet flavors: once again blueberry pancakes with maple syrup, coffee, dark chocolaten but sweet sweet sweet - whoa. Full body, creamy and smooth, modest carbonation, so cloyingly sweet. I would pass on this one in the future. Way too sweet for me. I need some insulin.