Imperial Stout Appreciation Thread (2022)

I know this is not an Imperial Stout, but it is a Session Pastry Stout with maple syrup, coffee and...BANANAS!



Timber Ales Pancakes By Campfire



Cheers!

 

13.5% Ghost Proton by Bottle Logic and by way of @Nugganooch. Big chewy stout. Cheers!

 

Excellent with a nice barrel char presence.

Heaven Hill version. Very fruit forward but damn tasty.

 

Decided to jump into the 2019 parabajava first thing from my box of FW goodies. And damn is it good. Great coffee flavors laid over that wonderful boozy, dark, dried fruit parabola baseline. Really enjoying this one tremendously and am now officially jacked to the teets about the fresh batch!

 

Drank a bottle of the same version earlier. Does it seem a little thinner than normal to you?

Forgot to post here...

 

Loire by Living Waters Brewing

 

Boulevard Brewing - Maple Mood. "Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout Aged on Maple Syrup" 12.5% abv. A bit sweet, fairly strong maple flavor, along with typical dark chocolate flavors. slick feel, full bodied.

 

Yeah when I went to order more parabaloid and some parabajava the fresh parabajava was out but they had 3 packs that were 2022, 2019, and some scoth barrel parabola from 2017.

 

starting the day off with some beetus & barrel. cheers!!

 

Narrow Gauge - Abeyance b5

cheers!!

 

2 of my favorite go to imperial stouts. I love the big roasty notes from butcher and the berry / cinnamon like notes from the coffee in bacon and eggs. The cinnamon isn’t a pepper flavor like over roasted beans but a something different and better. With the “cold” weather these are hitting the spot.

 

Sunday Funday. cheers!!

 

I've been planning to join the thread, after lurking since it was started, but thought I'd chime in to confirm that Parabajava was in fact released in 2019, as I had it at the Propagator in Venice in May, 2019. Had a flight of that included Parabajava, Parabola, and Napa Parabola. Like a great many things, I'm sure COVID messed with the releases.

 

Coffee Ralphius

 

Shit, should've remembered that --wife and I stayed at the Marina Del Rey hotel while she was doing some consulting at Sony. We enjoyed the area.

As a lager lover, I was lucky enough to have some freshly-tapped STiVO during another stop there.

 

Teotihuacan - Barreled Souls



Leaves a thick webbing of lace and a thin film with no legs.

Dark roasted chocolate mole with char roasted malt is exquisitely balanced by the habanero pepper. So simple, so well crafted with a clear distinction between the elements that lets the brain blend them together after each sip.

The flavor is filled with dark chocolate and charred malt. Nothing is overdone here, not sweet, not bitter, not hot, just all dancing together. The finish is long and blunt, fading ever so gradually.

Creamy smooth and dense. This bottle is labeled at 13.2%. The alcohol and the pepper blend a nice warm heat that clings to the tongue, cheeks, and throat. Soft carbonation tingles.

This is the perfect accompaniment to the book I am reading, Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry. The Mexican theme, the high alcohol, the fine craftsmanship. The book is outstanding. This beer is just short of outstanding. It celebrates the base stout, with the cacao and habanero as complimenting characters. The rest of the bottle is destined to pair with a smoked burger and Gorgonzola. If I can wait that long.