Tag Archives: 4.5_stars

Stone Imperial Stout

Strong sticky sweet aroma. Thick taste with a tart twang when it first hits the palate, but then the dark malt comes in and smooths it out, leaving a clean dark malt taste. Slightly crisp hop bite helps clear the palate as well. Aftertaste is lingering complex flavor mix of clean dark malt and some clean yeast flavor. Fairly dry on the palate, not thick or cloying like a typical 10+% beer.

Canned 10/19/2022, drank on 12/21/2023

4.5 out of 5 stars.

Short’s Freedom of ’78

Packaged 4/26/2023, tasted on 5/26/2023.

Fresh aroma of flowery hops and smooth caramel malts. Flavor of hop bitterness is quickly squashed by a full-palate fruit flavor, that finishes slightly thick and sticky with some dry hop flavor lingering in the background. Your mouth recognizes it just had a full flavored beer, but there’s surprisingly little to no heaviness left in the mouth.

4.5 out of 5 stars.

Dark Horse Smells Like a Safety Meeting

It’s been years since I had this.  I haven’t seen much from Dark Horse since they were bought by Roak, so I was excited to see a throwback.  This was canned on 03/25/23, drank on 04/29/23.

Aroma has faint caramel malts with some sticky hop aroma. Taste starts clean with a slightly sharp hop bite, then slowly builds a thick hop bitterness mixed with some caramel malts. Finally finishes clean as all the flavors somehow disappear.

If you’re in the mood for a caramel-y IPA, this hits the spot.

4.5 out of 5 stars.