From the label: It's cold, dark & the holidays are over... Time for a Wintervention! Fight back with this Imperial Stout conditioned a full month on cocoa nibs. 9.0% ABV
Appearance: Pours your typical black-as-the-night in body with a heavy burnt caramel head to it. The head was racing on up so I was scared it would gush over the glass, but thankfully it didn't. The head settles quickly to leave behind a nice sprinkling of foam on the glass, almost like a light snow fall.
Aroma: Chocolate Imperial Stout is a bang-on choice of words for this beer. Chocolate/cocoa nibs are the first thing I get from this beer, followed by a light roasted presence from the malt to give it a hint of coffee-like notes, a hint of woodiness, somewhat milky and a slightly papery scent at the end. Pretty straight forward, and at 9% it's quite smooooooth to the nose.
Taste: Up front, it gives off a bit of a burnt malt presence to it to give off a coffee-like flavour to it, there's notes of toffee, lots of chocolate, a bit of creaminess, a hint of peat and an aftertaste of peat mixed with caramel. Roasty but not too much.
Overall Thoughts: This is 9%? Way too smooth but I'll probably start feeling it soon. I hope the MLCC brings this back in three or four months from now, it's one of the better imports MLCC has brought in lately.. but Garrison is legendary and I can honestly say that I've personally enjoyed their beers for well over a decade, back when the craft beer scene here was pretty much MLCC bringing out a random beer from out of province.. and boy, did they bring in some interesting brews for once.. (I miss you Unibroue 17).
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