Dick's Imperial Stout
Deep and malty. Large quantities of specialty malts give this ale such depth of flavor. Caramel, brown, and chocolate malts, and black barley are all included. Magnum hops are added during the boil to balance the substantial maltiness and Willamette hops provide a nice spicy finish. Our house yeast ferments this beautiful black beer.
3.6
207 reviews
Centralia, United States
Community reviews
bottle, thanks to bitbucket in trade, black brown color , malty whiskey, pecans and waffle house
Brown with an average beige head. Aroma is of cocoa, licorice, and chocolate. Taste is of roasted malts, chocolate.
Dark brown, light brown head, decent carbonation for the style. Aroma/Flavor of lots of cookie dough, a bit of sap, milk chocolate, and roast. medium-heavy body. Nicer than I was expecting.
Bought in Eugene and opened the 12 oz in san diego into Pint glass. Looks pure black. Light brown thinish head. Smells like super chocolate. tastes like a bunch of chocolate with a bit of bittersweetness kinda like dark chocolate. pretty thick on the palate also kinda crisp on the tongue. Overall 8.5 of 10. Very tasty beer!
Bottle @ bros house. Brown/black appearance with a tan head. Roasty, anise, dark chocolate malty nose. Quite strong, roasty, charred, black licorice, chocolate malty flavor. Too much char and licorice for me.
Kind of nauseating to be quite honest. I don’t know why, but I am not enjoying this beer at all. Sad day apparently.
Strong, smoky aroma has tones of chocolate and molasses with coffee, nutty and licorice hints. It pours a dark chocolate brown with a fairly thick and fine-bubbled light tan head. Semi-sweet chocolate dominates the smoky flavor, which includes molasses, caramel and nutty hints. Texture is quite smooth and pleasing, not very fizzy but still good. Look for this one!
12 oz bottle into snifter. This bottle reads 7.5% ABV. Pours completely black with a medium beige head that recedes slowly. Has aromas of chocolate, caramel, toffee and raisins; smells a bit like a cinnamon roll. Taste is half sweet and half bitter. Almost reminiscent of Samuel Smith’s Imperial Stout. Carbonation is medium, body is full; leaves a lingering bitter finish. I am completely blown away by this. I really wasn’t expecting much. A nice surprise!
12 oz. bottle- Pours almost black with red highlights and a thin tan head, lacework is good. The aroma is dark roasted malts, a little chocolate, maybe some molasses. The taste is rich roasted malts, creamy, chocolate and molasses. The body is medium, a little thin for the style, carbonation is low, but that’s not a bad thing, relatively normal for the style. Overall obviously I have had better impy stouts, but this is better than I was expecting.
Pours dark brown, with lots of tan head. Aroma is sweet, with dark fruit and chocolate. Taste is way too hoppy. The hops simply overpower the sweet and complex malty taste I expect in an Imperial Stout. This ought to be called something else....Thumbs down....
Well I tried another bottle, and it is completely different. Much maltier, more of a traditional imperial stout. Sweet, complex, and very good. Thumbs up...
I wonder about the inconsistency.
From notes:
Pours a very dark chestnut brown color that appears almost black in the glass with mahogany edges when held to a light source. Two finger frothy beige head with decent retention, fading into a lasting ring that leaves sporadic spots of lacing behind.
Roasted malt aroma with a surprising earthy hop presence. Hits of pine, roasted coffee, chocolate, burnt toast and oatmeal.
Surprisingly hop forward for the style. Too much so perhaps resulting in an overly bitter flavor that overpowers the roasted malt profile. Tight carbonation with slight oxidization up front with bitter, earthy pine flavor that dominates throughout into a bone dry finish. Underneath there are subtle hints of roasted coffee bean, chocolate, burnt toast and toffee.
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black color with an enormous dark brown head that lingered forever and produced great lacing. The aroma was strong chocolate syrup with moderate notes of vanilla, bourbon and wood. The flavor was sweet cocoa, coffee, vanilla, bourbon and toasty malts with light notes of cherry, rum and licorice. The finish was long and sweetish with lingering chocolate syrup, coffee, rum and licorice. Medium body and a bit overcarbonated. Very nice.
This poured a darker brown color with a beige head. Aroma was deep roasted malts and stale bittering hops. Flavor was light chocolate and roasted, but very thin and watery. A subpar Impy.
Bottled. An almost black beer with a red shine under a brown head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, caramel, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of alcohol and roasted malt, leading to a dry bitter finish.
Bottle 12.7fl.oz.
ABV. 7.5%. Clear dark red brown color with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, fully to mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, coffee, moderate licorice. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and heavy to moderate bitter with a long duration, licorice, dark roasted. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20101102]
Bottle at Papsø.
Clear dark brown coloured with a small beige head.
Fruity and light roasted aroma of yeast with notes of caramel and berries.
Roasted flavour of caramel with notes of dark chocolate and liquorice.
Roasted finish.
Bottled. Black coloured. Dense brown head. Aroma of sweetness, roast, vague coffee, spice and fruits. Flavour of roast, sweetness, chocolate, grass and herbs. Medium bodied. Dry sweet bitterness.
12 fl oz bottle. Pours dark brown to black with a small tan to brown head. Aroma is roasted dark malty. Roasted malty and fruity flavoured. Mild acidic and dark malty flavoured. Dry and slight acidic into the finish.
Bottle 35,5 cl. Courtesy of scrizzz. Pours a pitch black with a small light brown head. Hard roast malt and prunes in the nose. Medium body, sweet roast and dark dried fruits, some yeastiness as well. Roasty finish, but no real malt astringency. 021110
12oz bottle from Belmont Station. Very dark red-brown color with a small beige head. Dull, papery dried fruit in the aroma with some plum sauce and fruity alcohol. No roasted malt character. The flavor has some lightly toasted malt, chocolate, fruity yeast, and very mellow hops and bitterness. A bit dull overall. Medium bodied and flabby. I can’t tell if this is too old or just mild in general, but I did just by it at a reputable beer store last week. Besides the oxidation this was probably a knock off of Sam Smiths to begin with.
West USA trip 2010. Bottled. The aroma has roast, chocolate, some coffee. Black coloured imperial stout with an off-white head. The taste is sweet, has chocolate, little coffee, some caramel, roast. Bit light for an IS, but okay.
Bottle@Home. Very nice aroma, mainly coffee but also black currant and something sweet. Great looks. Flavourful, fruity (almost sourish), coffee and roasted finish. Not the most powerful imperial stout but flavourful and easy going. I like that!
12 oz. bottle. Pours black with a minimal beige head. Nose is roasty with some chocolate and toffee. Medium-bodied, taste is what you’d expect from the nose. No alcohol apparent, very drinkable and well-balanced with just enough hops to give it a nicely bitter finish. This is thinner than most imperials. Nothing exceptional but a good beer.
Draft supposedly oak aged. Pours a black body with a white head. Bourbon, oak, sweet vanilla notes, caramel and chewy malt tones. Milky and sweet, bourbon creamy vanilla tones with a mild oaky finish. A lightly roast y body nice.
Maybe not a strong beer by today’s imperial standards, but Dick’s has all the elements -- roasty, alcohol, dark caramel flavors. Very nice -- give me a pint.
Bottle shared by Dogbrick. Black pour with a medium tan head. Malty nose with chocolate and roast, but the aroma is faint and weak. Malty flavor that is more caramel than chocolate with a bit of roast. Pretty weak for an impy stout.
12 oz. bottle, pours black with a tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, espresso and chocolate. Flavour of rich, sweet chocolate upfront, with caramel notes.
This beer pours a dark brown/black with a medium thick and foamy tan head that recedes steadily. Sticky patches of lacing on the glass. Roasted malt and chocolate in the nose. Medium body with flavors of toasted malt, chocolate and coffee. The finish is malty with a mild hops and coffee aftertaste. Decent overall, glad this is the beer that introduced me to Dick’s.
12oz. Bottle from trade with SuzyGreenberg: Faint aroma of chocolate and roasted malt. Poured black in color with a small, brown head that disappeared except for around the edges. Opaque. Lightly sparkling. Very good lacing. Lightly sweet and slightly bitter flavor. Tastes of roasted malt, chocolate, lactose, and hops. Medium body. Creamy texture becomes lightly dry. Average carbonation. Roasted malt, chocolate, and slight lactose finish is lightly dry.
12oz bottle, courtesy of scrizzz. Thanks, Clint! Pours a rather dark, cola-brown color; light-tan head with weak retention and solid lacing. Lots of cola and chocolate and creamy caramel in the aroma; some pleasant pine (?) and citrus bitterness; balanced, creamy, and straightforward. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: loads of milk chocolate, lightly roasted malts, caramel and tootsie roll character; moderate, quietly expressed bitterness, not even close to the density of the best imperial stouts, this is still a reasonably drinkable, hefty stout in its own right: lots of clearly expressed chocolate and caramel maltiness, well-balanced, hidden alcohol; tasty and drinkable. Lasting finish showing some nice mineral bitterness alongside milk chocolate, caramel, and cocoa.