Your Friend, Death
Cosmic Eye Brewing

12oz can. No dating information found.
Black colored body. Two fingers of tan head, results in partial cap and a ring. Leaves behind some large spots of lacing.
Aroma initially smells like cigarette smoke, but this translates to a roasted malt smell withe a milk chocolate note, and a char in the finish.
Taste is dark chocolate malts, with a bit a sweet note from dark berry such as blueberry or black berry. Stills end with some campfire char.
Thinner than medium mouth feel. Has a slight drying finish. Good carbonation.
Solid stout with both a sweet note and a dark char note. Good balance.

Appearance: Pours a dark espresso color with a one finger head that creates a ringlet and archipelago; streaky lacing

Smell: Roasted malt with ashy smoke, Baker's chocolate and blackberry tones

Taste: Roasted malt with some ash, up front; chocolate and blackberry flavors build, through the middle; some coffee tones develop in the finish

Mouthfeel: Medium to full body with moderate carbonation

Overall: The blackberry angle is interesting here as I like my Russian Imperial Stouts to have a dark fruit element; this can sat around for a couple of years but held up nicely

Thanks, xKurtx, for the opportunity

 

 

 

Your Friend Death, 12 oz can dated 4/16/19, 8.4% ABV, poured into Stella Artois chalice.

Deep, silky black with a creamy almond head of 1/2 finger.

Slick coffee and cocoa aromas, with acidic black roasted coffee and a hint of ashtray and blackberry.

Flavor brings a huge wave of coffee-chocolate, the chocolate turning more into the dark bitter cacao kind, with hints of dark berry and grassy piney hop.

Feel is creamy and silky, with a soft carbonation but pleasantly adequate.

Overall, a very delicious textbook Russian Imperial Stout. Very deep, bitter, dark, and roasty. It's a bit too bitter for me, so it's a little rougher to finish, but it is definitely enjoyable and a good example.