Heavy Seas Peg Leg
This full-bodied imperial stout pours an opaque mahogany color with a tan head. Its smell is dominated by notes of roasted coffee beans, with a slight hint of chocolate, but Simcoe and Fuggles hops add complexity to the aroma. The roasted barley is detectable in the taste, and this complements the bitterness from the Warrior hops - balancing out the sweetness from the load of malts used in brewing Peg Leg. A creamy mouthfeel makes this a smooth, utterly drinkable beer.
3.3
905 reviews
Baltimore, United States
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Poured from bottle best by Jan 2017 dark black pour with a thin cocoa head. Aromas of coffe molasses and chocolate malt. Taste is roasted chocolate malt toffee and dark fruit. Not the best or worst RIS.
Pours brownish black, some medium brown head. Some lacing. Aroma is coffee and molasses. Very intriguing. Taste of dark coffee, toffee, hops. Medium mouthfeel. Not the most intense RIS, but an enjoyable beer.
It’s not bad, not the best but It’s pretty tasty. The aroma has a lot of coffee and chocolate which is pleasant but almost smells sort of fake I don’t know why. It’s actually pretty bitter and I’m only getting some roastiness and some alcohol. It’s definitely dry, they got that part down. Overall, it’s not a bad beer, just not really my type of stout. I kind of wish the taste didn’t have so much alcohol in it, I feel like that’s what kind of ruined it for me.
Personal impy stout blind tasting. This was the 3rd out of 4. Here it goes:
By far the most uninteresting of the lineup. Not thin but thinnest body of the 3 with a tingling carbonation that leads to a soda like mouthfeel. Really disperses and loses the flavors. Aroma comes off as really cheap and watered down, spit in, and maybe peed in coffee. I swear, a hint of fish scales. Flavor is mostly malt husks and again cheap old pissy coffee. And again I swear there is a mollusk or something in here. Returning AFTER FULL LINEUP: definitely the worst with some wacky fishy flavor that really is occupying my senses.
I only guessed one beer correctly in the lineup, this was it. I’m pretty sure I had this some time before and knew that it wasn’t for my tastes.
Aroma is bready, dark fruit, chocolate maybe, sweet. Appearance is dark brown, poured thin, light brown head. Taste is bad. Artificial licorice, dark fruit, roasted malt, sweet, raisins, awful. Mouthfeel is medium body, light carbonation, awful dark fruit aftertaste. Overall, bad. Bad.
Bottle from Total Wines, Sterling VA. Jet black in colour, with a thin, beige, head. Coffee and dark chocolate notes, some caramel and dark berry sweetness, before a rich, toasty finish. Good.
Smells like coffee and a little fruit or red wine, but man you take one sip and you are hit with a very unexpected and fairly unpleasant, medicinal taste. It was so weird it made me check the best by date, still 5 months out. Like a bad citrus fruit taste, or merlot cut with coffee? Other Heavy Seas are much better.
Pours a dark brown with a thin off-white head. Aroma is chocolate, roast, molasses, fruit, and something off. Flavor is a bit better, with chocolate and molasses dominant, but also roast, toffee, and some dark fruits. Highly carbonated. Just okay.
Bottle. Pitch black with a fading bubbly brown head. Aroma is of roasted coffee, nuts, dark fruits, salty. Taste is of coffee, dark fruits, blackcurrant, nuts, caramel. Watery to oily mouthfeel, medium carbonation.
Bottle pour into nonic pint glass from One Stop Market. Appearance is dark brown-red (virtually opaque black) with quickly-fading light brown head and no lacing. Aroma is strong roasted malts, chocolate and dark fruit, caramel/toffee and hint of coffee. Taste is initial dark fruit, molasses and toffee--interrupted by slightly tangy, almost metallic flavor--then ends roasted mix of sweet and bitter. Palate is full bodied with smooth, thick texture, average-to-lively carbonation with dry, roasted finish. Overall, slightly off in the taste and a little too carbonated for the style.
Heavy Seas Peg Leg has a lot of competition which makes rating it tough. Definitely dark pour with a moderate tan head. Taste is malty as expected but nothing special. Peg Leg is just average in a sea of great Imperial stouts.
Consider it decent, but not a standout.
Pours an opaque dark brown with khaki colored head. Roasted malt, cocoa, and just a hint of coffee on the nose; follows onto the palate. Full bodied. Finishes with a lot of roasted character and some molasses.
On. Tap pours a black brown color with a foamy brown head. Notes of fudge, booze, smoke, and burnt cookie crust. Thin for an impy.
Poured from a bottle. Pours a pitch black with a thin tan head and plenty of lacing. Aroma of roasted malts and a semi sweet dark chocolate and caramel. Nice body that’s not too thick. Fairly smooth with very light carbonation. Tastes of dark molasses, licorice, and roasted malts. Flavors are not very prominent and don’t linger long enough. Smooth finish with a slight bitter aftertaste. OK, but I was expecting much more from a stout.
Bottle from Perfect Pour. Dark brown body with thin head. Nose is burnt caramel. Taste is similar of burnt, roasted malts, caramel and sweet finish. I think it’s too roasty in my opinion. Pirate style.
Very nice and quitethick too. Nice to drink and with some chocolate hints in there. VEry good in a flihgt.
Bottle, pours dark mahogany with a thick tan head. Aroma is coffee and roasted hops. Taste of coffee, chocolate and a little vanilla. Creamy with a bitter finish.
12 oz bottle with a BB date stamp of Oct. 2015 purchased earlier in the day at a World Market.
Pours a very dark red-brown looking black and opaque in the shaker pint glass. Decent head and some lacing.
Excellent mouthfeel despite indications of high ABV: very smooth and full.
The aroma too is quite nice. While I certainly like the flavor it is about average, for style.
Overall: a bit disappointing given the brewery and the favored style.
Bottled. Really overly bitter. Not much alcohol burn at all. Bitterness lingers. Not great.
Jan, Dec 2019.
Opaque, tall, tan head which is a real mousse, no lace, leaves glass clean.
Earthy nose.
Full body and flavor, smooth and creamy texture, high heat and carbonation, good length, tasty finish.
Mildly bitter, dry, moderate acidity, perfectly balanced.
Medium strength roast flavors, coffee, vanilla, hint of chocolate, earthy. Good value.
Nothing special but nothing bad.
A slightly thinner than usual and more bitter than usual imperial stout. Still get some coffee and chocolate, even a hint of smoke. OK, but doesn’t really do it for me as my favorite style.
Bottle. Black in color with a tan head. Aroma is coffee and chocolate. Taste is coffee and chocolate with hints of molasses, toffee and caramel.
I feel like this beer is so close to wondrous but somehow missing the mark. All the flavors are there just not enough of it. A year of aging would help tremendously and hopefully help the banal ale finish
Slightly smoky smell which is awesome, couldn’t quite see appearance in mug or bottle, taste is heavy, slightly smoky mostly coffee heavy malt that stays on palate forever, bit bitter after the sip that slightly intensifies over time, would score a little higher if it lost a touch of the bitterness
Black with rimming Lacy tan head; aroma is sweet and roasty with hint of prunes; flava is tangy roasty slightly smoky; feels light to medium fizzy; finishes dry roasty smoky wood
Run of the mill imp stout. Flavor is thinner and everything is lighter. This is a imperial stout light. Not a bad beer but closer to a regular stout.
Pours a black from a bottle with quickly dissipating khaki head, minimal lacing. Aroma of chocolate, Moxie cola, but it even smells dry. Flavor is overly roasted, not quite burnt but bitter brownies maybe where someone forgot to add sugar. Not that I miss the sweetness of other stouts, the dryness is probably the most interesting thing going on here. A total score of 2 might be a little harsh, but after trying their Siren Noire I’m a little surprised at how not awesome this is.
Farbe tief schwarz. Aromen nach Cassis. Nur ganz leichte Röstnote. Geschmack dann leicht säuerlich. Im Abgang bitter. Die 8%alc schmeckt man nicht.
Geruch nach Molasse, dunkler Schokolade und Zuckerrübenkraut. Der Geschmack ist sehr intensiv, aber nicht schokoladig und auch nicht besonders süß. Mal was Anderes und sehr gut.
While I found this to be drinkable, it was far from being anything special. Average at best.