Imperial Stout - Maple
Hubbard's Cave Brewery

 

 

Pours black with really no head just tan bubbles ringing the goblet.

Aroma is lots of roasted malts chocolate and maple upfront, vanilla, coffee underneath sweet nose almost to lactose levels. Defiantly don't have to worry about finding the maple , wasn't expecting a dessert stout but its sweet, not as complex as you would think a big 12%stout would be.

Taste follows the nose sweet maple and chocolate dominate with good dose of vanilla, hints of caramel, roasted smoke notes and coffee underneath. Big sweet dessert stout more one sided then what I was expecting but again not lacking in the maple department.

Mouthfeel is big and smooth a full bodied sipper.

Overall big and sweet and maple your thing this has it all, but that's about all it has , not overly complex for a bog stout.

Look: Pours literally pitch black and thick as burnt motor oil with a caramel colored head that morphs into a thin ring and sticky foam fingers glued to the sides of the glass.
Smell and Taste: If you love maple, this is the ticket but be warned, the sweetness and the ABV is overpowering.
Feel: How can one not feel good about 12% ABV? Beyond that it's think and oily. Carbonation is there but at a low level.
Overall: Save this brew for an after dinner desert beverage. My only complaint would have to be the over the top sweetness.

 

 

 

Can courtesy of BigTimeADL.
Black with minimal brown head.
Sweet, Chocolate, viscous and syrupy but masks the surprising 12%abv almost completely.
Overall: if you’re a fan of big sweet imperial stouts, this will not disappoint.

 

 

From the tall boy can in a snifter. This dessert brew pours a
rich obsidian with a nice head of brown foam that settles
to a thick ring, thin layer, and displays some very nice l;acing.
Nose of light maple, dark fudge, subtle char and roast, and
faint coffee. Flavors follow the nose with liquid dark fudge
and a nice maple note with subtle coffee, moderate char
and roast, and light cream notes. Nice mouth feel; full body,
smooth, slick, coating, light carbonation with just enough lift
to give this heavy duty brew some effervescence, and a
sticky sweet finish.

Overall, a SOLID brew

Cheers

 

Had this on Tap/draft at a bar. it's ok but i was a little disappointed too.
Flavor was not great. Overpriced?

 

Decent head production and very good retention. Waves of maple and brown sugar on the nose, along with red grapes, banana, char, caramel, and molasses.

Smooth, big, and sweet on the palate, but not lacking in roastiness, which builds throughout the sip. Toast, brown sugar, maple (which is sweet up front, but returns with a vengeance on the back third, incorporating dull woody aspects), caramel, molasses, vanilla, marshmallow, banana, and sweet red grape.

This is excellent-to-outstanding across the board.

Bottled February 2016; drank 3/18/16 @ the Yarchives.

Opaque black appearance.

A rough pour yielded a small dark khaki head; strong tree-rung lace.

Cream, fresh earth & faint trash water notes in the nose. Uh-oh...

Medium thick mouthfeel.

Sweet cream & fresh earth flavors up front; bitter bakers chocolate & trash water notes on the finish. No maple flavors at all, but that's the least of this beer's problems; the notes of rained-on garbage cans are. I'll never have another.

Pours deep dark brown and sits black in the glass, very viscous.

Very pungent maple syrup aroma. Very sweet with notes of vanilla and rich roasted malt as well.

Oh my, flavor is where this beer falls of a cliff. The beautiful maple syrup character in aroma turns into VERY artificial maple syrup flavor in taste.

Full-bodied, low-medium carbonation, rich, too sweet, cloying.

Overall, while it looks nice and smells wonderful, this brew is hard to get down as the incredible artificial sweetness just does not let up. Definitely let down.