Imperial Stout Appreciation Thread (2022)

keeping it non-BA’d today. almost moving backwards toward breakfast. this one has a nice mouthfeel. it’s not too sweet but i definitely get a nice coffee / maple / cinnamon flavor combo.

 

A bit late, but last Friday we had our monthly SAN (Stout Appreciation Night) and these were most of the bottles. Not pictured was a stout/cherry mead braggot from Two Guys brewing, a Pastryarchy flavored beer from Duclaw (Candy Cane Imperial Stout) and a Rum BA Imperial Porter from New Holland "Banana's Foster"
It was a good evening.

 

How was the braggot? That's a style I want to find more of but nobody makes em here.

 

Very little carbonation and the taste was dominated by the cherry. Curiously though, not as much as the Bells Cherry Stout. It just seemed more mead than beer, like perhaps their balance was off. Not sure I'd buy that specific one again, at least not this iteration, but if they do it again in the future I'd give it a shot.

 

Our very local KinderHill Brewing had a couple imperial stouts for their 1st Anniversary. I had the pleasure to enjoy their Just Another Brunch Spot both on tap and from a bottle. The fresh tap beer had a spicy dark berries flavor, along with the dark chocolate up front. The bottled version, aged just about 1.5 months, had a distinct coconut finish added. I look forward to their 2nd anniversary beers!

 

Today's tasty and delicious beer is plain old New Holland's Dragon's Milk. I used "plain old", cuz it's just a "plain old". I like this beer 'cuz if I want a BA Impy Stout, I can find this just about anyplace, 24/7/365, I can't say that about any other stout. Is it great, no, is it tasty'n delicious, darn tootin' it is.
L: As BA stouts go, its thin, almost watery.
S: Coffee, chocolate.
T: Tastes like it smells, add some vanilla and maybe some ash or char from the barrel.
F: Thin and watery, a bit more carbonation than most BA Impy stouts.
O: Not a great beer beer by any stretch, but it's something that's always in my fridge!

 

Enjoyed Parabola 2022 earlier today, world class for sure!
Cheers!
Tom

 

what ch’all know about lager sidecars? the dark lord approves so long as it’s served in one of his glasses

 

BA dark apparition was hot garbage. Bad enough for me to write the brewery off completely.

 

Another beer "left behind" from the Minnesotans weekend invasion, this one is a stout, and one that was pretty tasty, albeit, too sweet....

4.08/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
by ZebulonXZogg from Illinois

Pours a thick'n chewy black, tan head that lingered, but alas no lacing. Boogar factory says coffee and cocoa, taste buds get all that, some vanilla and of co6some whiskey, that being said, too much cocoa and coffee, very close to being too sweet. Pretty good beer, the added junk, was a bit too much....enjoy what's in yer glass......

 

This one is my introduction to imperial stouts with coffee, etc. added. So far, so good. Think I'll be having more of this kind in the future.




Cheers Y'all.

 

Given the lack of accuracy and certainty with the date, it's an odd choice for a beer name, but I give credit to Shortfuse for at least going with 1995 even though Bourbon County labels used (?) to say "since 1992" right on them. I recall (the Goose Island-obsessed) Josh Noel putting out an article trying to convince readers that 1995 was a more likely date than '92. I wonder if Shortfuse was referencing this article.

 

I might be missing something, but as far as I know there isn't coffee in that beer. Does it say espresso "notes" on the label? If so, you might need to find another introduction.

 

But what are you using to distinguish between "American" and "Russian?" Narwhal being classified as Russian on this site and Ten Fidy being classified as American (to use the two beers in the post you quoted) seems more like an exercise in random categorization than anything significantly meaningful.