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Imperium Russian Imperial Stout
Highland Brewing
- From:
- Highland Brewing
- North Carolina, United States
- Style:
- Russian Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- 92
- Avg:
- 4.18 | pDev: 10.05%
- Reviews:
- 14
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 01, 2020
- Added:
- Feb 10, 2017
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 13
The dark complexity of a Russian Imperial Stout made more irresistible with the addition of vanilla beans, toasted coconut, and Octane® coffee. Pitch black, velvet smooth and aggressively roasty, Imperium commands all of your senses.
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Ratings by metter98:
Reviewed by metter98 from New York
4.24/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.24/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
On-tap at Sticks & Stones, Greensboro, NC
A: The beer is jet black in color. It poured with a quarter finger high tan head that died down, leaving lacing on the surface and a narrow collar around the edge of the glass.
S: Moderate aromas of coconut and vanilla are present in the nose.
T: The taste follows the smell and has lots of flavors of coconut with strong notes of vanilla and hints of coffee and dark malts.
M: It feels medium- to full-bodied and smooth on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This beer is pleasant to sip, especially if you like coconuts and vanilla. It would make for a good selection as a dessert beer. No alcohol is perceptible.
Serving type: on-tap
Jul 29, 2017A: The beer is jet black in color. It poured with a quarter finger high tan head that died down, leaving lacing on the surface and a narrow collar around the edge of the glass.
S: Moderate aromas of coconut and vanilla are present in the nose.
T: The taste follows the smell and has lots of flavors of coconut with strong notes of vanilla and hints of coffee and dark malts.
M: It feels medium- to full-bodied and smooth on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This beer is pleasant to sip, especially if you like coconuts and vanilla. It would make for a good selection as a dessert beer. No alcohol is perceptible.
Serving type: on-tap
More User Ratings:
Rated by nick_perry from North Carolina
2.19/5 rDev -47.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 1 | feel: 3 | overall: 1.75
2.19/5 rDev -47.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 1 | feel: 3 | overall: 1.75
Black color. 1-finger brown head. Full bodied with a creamy texture. Flavor is sour and bitter. Some coffee notes, but they’re fairly weak.
Sep 23, 2019Rated by Loooonie2 from North Carolina
4.75/5 rDev +13.6%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.75/5 rDev +13.6%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
Exceptional Russian Imperial Stout.
May 11, 2018Reviewed by ChainGangGuy from Georgia
4.12/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
4.12/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
12 ounce bottle - $3.99 at Total Wine & More in Kennesaw, Georgia.
Appearance: Pours a very dark brown, near black body with a smallish, rather brief, light beige head.
Smell: Scented soundly of roasted malts, deeply toasted bread, a few drops of salty soy, cream-dosed coffee, toasted-up dried coconut and chocolate candies.
Taste: A soothing, roundly sweet-tasting maltiness curtailed by just a bit of alcohol and some roastiness (a product of the grain bill and its coffee addition). Lightly nutty oatiness, toasty coconut shards, some milk chocolate. Its sweetness slowly recedes leading into the gently drying, roasted finish.
Mouthfeel: Medium-plus body. Medium-soft carbonation. Smooth, velvety body. A gentle and almost gentile mouthfeel.
Overall: Pretty solid, likable stout. Sure, with a mere three adjuncts in the form of coconut, coffee and vanilla, this is still five to seven ingredients shy of what today's beer drinkers expect, but I thought it was squarely decent.
Apr 28, 2018Appearance: Pours a very dark brown, near black body with a smallish, rather brief, light beige head.
Smell: Scented soundly of roasted malts, deeply toasted bread, a few drops of salty soy, cream-dosed coffee, toasted-up dried coconut and chocolate candies.
Taste: A soothing, roundly sweet-tasting maltiness curtailed by just a bit of alcohol and some roastiness (a product of the grain bill and its coffee addition). Lightly nutty oatiness, toasty coconut shards, some milk chocolate. Its sweetness slowly recedes leading into the gently drying, roasted finish.
Mouthfeel: Medium-plus body. Medium-soft carbonation. Smooth, velvety body. A gentle and almost gentile mouthfeel.
Overall: Pretty solid, likable stout. Sure, with a mere three adjuncts in the form of coconut, coffee and vanilla, this is still five to seven ingredients shy of what today's beer drinkers expect, but I thought it was squarely decent.
Rated by WOLFGANG from South Carolina
4.09/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.09/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Coffee ganache with nice bitterness. Roasted aroma very inviting. Not getting coconut. Vanilla is subtle, but nice.
Apr 23, 2018
Imperium Russian Imperial Stout from Highland Brewing
Beer rating:
92 out of
100 with
54 ratings
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