Holy Mackerel Mack in Black
Belgian Style Imperial Stout
Dark chocolate barley and roasted grains paired with American hops and Belgian yeast create a mouthful of flavors, but wait that’s not all, add a hint of pomegranate juice and what you have here is not your run of the mill fruit beer.You’ve hit the mother load. At 8%ABV this ale is suitable for aging 1-2 years. Brewed by Florida Beer Co for Gordash Brewing.
Dark chocolate barley and roasted grains paired with American hops and Belgian yeast create a mouthful of flavors, but wait that’s not all, add a hint of pomegranate juice and what you have here is not your run of the mill fruit beer.You’ve hit the mother load. At 8%ABV this ale is suitable for aging 1-2 years. Brewed by Florida Beer Co for Gordash Brewing.
3.5
384 reviews
Pompano Beach, United States
Community reviews
Bottle to snifter (shared with the Mrs.; thanks burg326). Looks good; a dull black with mocha head that dissipates into lacing. Smells solid; dark malt, roast, and hops with some pomegranate notes. Tastes like it smells with some chocolate too. Nice on the palate. Enjoyable.
From bottle. Poured deep black with fizzy head. Aroma was all chocolate, dark roasted malt and coffee. Taste followed but the mouthfeel was horrible. Fizzed up like soda water as I drank.
Bottle from Total Wine in Jensen Beach. Pours an opaque black with a tan head. No real lacing. Aroma has molasses, roast, some soy, and liquid chocolate. And more liquid chocolate. Taste is of bakers chocolate, expresso, and molasses. Quite sweet and lactose-y. Probably a bit thin for a stout. Should be a sweet stout? Finishes sweetly bitter with some length. Interesting with nice flavors.
Poured from 12oz bottle, pours black with a thick light brown head and lacing, really sweet aroma without chocolate and malt than hops, dark fruits as well, little bit if the booze, flavor has a sharp front end without a lot kid hops and mostly malt, booze comes through, meh.
Deep malty richness with dark fruity subtle notes. This is a sipper. Thick black with huge cocoa head, truly beautiful in the glass. Booze in the nose. Very enjoyable.
Pours jet black with a thick mocha head that retains. Aroma of chocolate malt, roast and Belgian yeast. Taste is tart fruit, chocolate malt, Belgian yeast and coffee in the finish. Kinda hot but very tasty. Medium body. The best offering from this brewery
Pours black with a thin wispy brown head. Notes of chocolate, resinous malt, licorice, rum cake. Full bodied, moderately alcoholic with lush overcarbonation.
Coffee and chocolate aromas. Coffee and dark fruit flavors. Overall it’s a good beer.
black color, aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, dark fruits, flavors of roasted malt, dark chocolate, pomegranates, and other dark fruits, slight pine hops, and Belgian spice, med body, not bad
Bottle. Pours black with giant coffee head. Big aroma of berries and burnt sugar. Taste is bramble ish at first then metalic. Hoppy
12oz Bottle. The pour was a deep dark black with a large (2-3 finger) medium brown fluffy head that receded slowly, down to a light film with a large collar and had excellent sheets of streaky lacing.
The aroma was bold and powerful with a burnt chocolate malt, a light resin hop and a heavy leathery yeast with notes of dark chocolate, roasted coffee, molasses, vanilla and dark fruit (berries).
The taste was very malty with a nice chocolaty sweetness and a note of coffee from the onset with a mild bitterness settling in along with a hint of molasses and a somewhat strong smoky berry ending. The flavor lingered for a good long time with a wonderful chocolate espresso taste that was left hanging for a while longer.
Mouthfeel was a few steps past medium in body with a smooth and creamy texture and a medium carbonation.
Overall an extremely bold, robust and tasty brew that ended with a mild fruity sweetness that possessed a touch of smoke, which made this an exceptionally fantastic drinking experience...
Bottle. Pours a thick and very dark brown with a very thick tan head. Lots of bitter and roasted notes to the nose. Definitely bitter and biting in the taste - not for the uninitiated.
Bottle poured into a snifter: Aroma of pomegrante shines through nicely! Awesome aroma. Taste smokey to me, slightly sour. Different for me, but grew on me as I drank. Intresting beer.
A - pours deep dark coffee black with very high fluffy chocolate head. Strong lacing. S - aromas of chalky toasted malts. Burned malts. Chocolate and charleston chews. Toffee. M - more watery than expected. Medium bodied with a light watery end. Bitter towards the end. T - simplistic chalky toasted malts. Coffee, toffee. Watery light end. I - drinkable simplistic IMp ipa 6+
12 oz bottle pours black with a tan head. Aroma is nice roasted malt and chocolate. Taste is malt, chocolate and coffee.
Pours black with a finely bubbled thick head and lace.
Bitter, sweet with heavy palate and metallic.
I enjoy some of the most bitter beers but I’m not sure what went wrong here.
$2.79/12oz @ Total Wine & More, Boca Raton, Florida
Black with a thick tan head. Dull hopy aroma. Smooth well balanced hop bitter full bodies. Really plain
Originally reviewed: 5/31/09. This beer pours a jet black with a small thin tan head on top. No retention whatsoever, and no lacing either. Weak. Smells of cocoa, currants, figs, grapes, and booze. Interesting.
Mouthfeel is decent. Some mild carbonation on the tongue. I thought it’d be a bit more as a strong ale. Flavor is interesting to say the least. Right away I taste copious amounts of black licorice. If this is the "black" in "Mack in Black" I’d be severely disappointed. Not a fan of the licorice flavor. Molasses, and a faint nuttiness in there as well. Finishes roasty.
This is an interesting beer. Different, and it threw me for a loop on all counts. I don’t know what I was expecting, but this was and wasn’t it at the same time. Try it if you must, you may be surprised.
12 ounce bottle, pours a black color with aromas of roasted malt, coffee, dark dried fruit, nuts and some sweetness. Flvoar is the same, mostly roasted coffee throughout, other flavors are there, you just have to work for it.
heavy sepia, cream ring with lightly oily top. Nose is dusty chocolate, but of oat and plum. Flavor is more chocolate, anise and cherry lightly offsetting, but pleasant.
Bottle. Pours dark brown with thin, fizzy beige head; short retention and no lacing. Aroma is roasted malt, chocolate, earthy hops, figs and other dark fruits, and light vanilla. Flavor is malt dominate with faint supporting hops and dark fruit esters; dry, chocolate finish. Medium body, carbonation, and warmth.
355mL thanks to maniac. Clear deep mahogany with tan head. Weak retention. Nose is black olive and marmite with salty black patent black. Like a foreign stout. Taste is carboardy and salty with odd paper and tannins. Sticky sugar.
Bottle, pours a nice black, aroma is sweet, the flavour is nice, its nice dark roasty malts and a good body, there is some kind of fruit in the back round, that is nice, interesting offering
Dark black pour with brown head. Roasted malts and dark chocolate on the nose. Taste is very interesting mix of chocolate, fruit, dark roasted malts. An enjoyable beer.
THIS IS NOT AN IMPERIAL STOUT. THIS IS AN IMPERIAL BLACK ALE. That being said: this is a very complex beer. Dark and rich with a pretty quick finish. This is not a beer for the uninitiated. Complex fruity heads. Large aroma out of the bottle. Tastes like it pushes for its gravity. Might mature beautifully if put up for a year or two, and mellow that bite out a bit, or smooth it. Overall a very interesting offering.
Pours rich opaque black with a tremendous foamy mocha head, actually needed patience for the pour. Aroma is malty, with coffee and chocolate nose and some licorice. Very different and complex taste, sweet with tastes of chocolate and appreciable berries. The finish is dry and flat. Quaff Score 6 / 10 For a different Imp Stout try it.
Pours a dark black with a brown head and aroma of chocolate and roasted malt. Taste is sweet, of roasted malt, chocolate, fruit, and hops with a dry, smooth finish. Interesting brew, the fruit flavors really come through and provide a unique taste to an imperial stout.
Bottle 33 cl, trade. Pours black with a small brown head. Aroma is sweet, fruity, roasted, malty, dark fruits, fidges, port and nutty. Flavor is acidy, sourish, sweet, coffee... much like aroma, very drinkable with decent bitterness. Finishes roasted coffee and fruity.
This is by far one of my favorite beers. I love the aroma of chocolate and roasted smells. The appearance is Black clear and frothy with the reddish pomegranate showing in the head. I would love to know how to clone this as I would have it all the time.
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