Imperial Stout Appreciation Thread (2022)

I think Roak is actually a Michigan brewery. Maybe I'm mistaken but I think they are the ones that bought Dark Horse brewing (makers of Plead the 5th and the other wonderful stouts in that series)

 

As a coloradan I blame California for all my issues.

 

It's where all the California's have moved. They were so sick of California they moved here... and made it California.

 

It's the red sauce in a beef burrito

 

Enjoyed the Autumn 2021 version of Parabola. Always one of my favorites and picked up annually when i lived in PHX. Rated it 4.67. Dare i say world-class?
Cheers!
Tom

 

sometimes I forget you’re from Michigan until you say some shit only a Michigander would know lol

 

Arvon really swatted a dinger with this bad boy.

We’re all pretty well aware of the KBS Hazelnut released a couple months ago. Many of us in WBAYDN and other threads agreed it had taken on a very much liquid Nutella character. It was chewy, decadent, chocolatey and retained enough hazelnut character to remain true to flavor description. Well, If that beer was Nutella “Alpha”, this beer; Dark Divination “Nutella” is the “Omega”.

Pours a pitch oily black with a finger of cola brown rocky suds. Nose is bitter coffee, milk chocolate, and hazelnut spread. Taste follows suit with a sweet brown sugary finish. Feel is plenty full, thick, chewy, everything I wanted this to be. Overall, out of the few stouts from Arvon I’ve had, this will easily be the highest rated if just based on flavor true to description alone. 4.25/5

Cheers.

 

I wish I got back more often, there's so many new breweries that I hear good things about on here that have popped up since I moved away. Case in point, that Arvon you just posted. Such a great beer state

 

Me too! One would think that the new size would be easier to send further. But nada here in Michigan.

 

Yup, I almost always have a Devil Dog down in the cellar. Had one last night with the SAN group. I’ll post pic later.

 

Say a picture is worth a thousand words?

Not pictured was the Devil Dog which we started with.
2019 and 2020 Narwhal, BA Old Rasputin XX (2018 I think) Coffee Cocoa Stout from New Belgium, Unfinished Business from Perrin, and Ten Fiddy, because it’s just good.
Cheers all!

 

Set out for some lunch and an afternoon of light beers and some music at Mills River Brewing but Da Boss just was not feeling right so we headed on home and with her in bed thought i would indulge with a dessert beer. Not bad for a brew that is done regularly. SNBC "gifted" me a four-pack when i picked up my last Alpha Hop Society release at the end of 2021. Got to respect a nicely done BBA stout even though it is not world class.



Cheers!
Tom