The label is yellow, bland, and boring. Very little information is available on this brew - a short description on their website is about it. According to BeerAdvocate, the brew is 7.5%ABV. Bottled on date is end of January 2011.The beer is a dark brown, almost black, that does let a tiny bit of light through, and builds about half an inch of tan head. The aroma is mellow, with roasty chocolate notes and sweet malts, and some dark fruits in the background. The taste starts with grainy chocolate malts, really gritty. Then those flavors are overshadowed by bitterness (and maybe some alcohol?). The bitterness hangs around briefly, and then towards the end the chocolate roast flavors come back, along with some bitter coffee and toffee. Carbonation was a little higher than I'd prefer, giving the beer an odd body that's sticky in the throat, but leaves a 'lighter' impression. There is also a strange aftertaste in the stickiness that is pretty unpleasant, a sort of rusty-tin-can flavor.
Overall Rating: This wasn't great - one of my least favorite brews from Central Waters so far. Not a bad beer by any means......I finished the glass. But it was really average for an imperial stout, and not something I would actively seek out again.
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