Saranac High Peaks Imperial Stout
Mt. Marcy, Skylight, Algonquin...Majestic Adirondack High Peaks - They are the inspiration for our "High Peaks" series, a line of beers that are bigger, more complex and flavorful; beers that are meant to be sipped and savored. The second in our series, Saranac Imperial Stout, is brewed with eleven malts to balance a delicious chocolate and coffee roasted flavor with the spicy herbal character of the generous kettle and dry hops. At 50 IBU’s this beer captures the essence of the Adirondacks. Enjoy!
3.6
267 reviews
Utica, United States
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(12oz bottle, courtesy of blutt59) Pours an opaque black body with a spare tan head. Aroma of roasted grain, chocolate, plum, coffee, and raisins. Flavor of raisins, tobacco, roasted/burnt malt, coffee, and ash.
Black in color with a small tan head. Aroma is of coffee, roasted malts, chocolate. Taste is of malt, booze, molasses, and coffee.
Reddish brown color, tannish head, and dark. The smell is toasty, malts, roasty, chocolate, and coffee. The taste is dark fruits, chocolate, sweet, cocoa, and roasted malts.
12 oz bottle, pours black with a creamy head. Tastes of roasted malt and mocha. Very good stout, worth the purchase.
Bottle, thanks to Leighton. It pours near black, with a thick tan head. The nose is caramel, spice (particularly cinnamon), varnish, brown sugar and milk chocolate. The taste is roasted malt, chocolate, tobacco, caramel, toast, charred wood, tar, burnt malt and salted caramel, with a dry finish. Medium to full body and moderate carbonation. Not bad.
From Voldby, DK.
Bottled, 211211.
Black with beige head. Aroma of coffee. Flavor with roasted malt, chocolate and caramel.
Bottle at home in London. Pours black-red with a light, beige head. Sharp, milk chocolate aroma, medium roast. Medium sweet flavor, moderate roast, notable alcohol, some peat, earthy bitterness. Full bodied with fine, massaging carbonation. Warm finish, bits of booze, dark chocolate, scorched earth, plenty of peat, some dark fruits. Not bad.
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Pours deep brown/black with a medium mocha head. Aroma of dark fruits, molasses, and caramel. Flavor has some heavy roast, dark chocolate, and winey dark fruitt. Mouthfeel is medium and slightly creamy with a roasty, dry finish.
Bottle/12oz - Pours a very dark black/brown in color with a small creamy tan head that produced some really nice lacing on the glass. Aroma is heavy with dark roasted malts along with a bit of both chocolate and coffee. Flavor is also quite strong with the dark malts... a bit too much of the black patent IMO... and the coffee is stronger than the aroma. Lingering bitterness that, I’m sure, is a combo of the hops and the astringency of the darkly roasted malts. Good, but not great Impy...
Serving: 12 oz. bottle from State Line Liquors. It pours almost pitch black witha thick, creamy head of dark tan foam. The nose is lots of roasted malt, coffee, and mocha . The flavor has lots of coffee and roasted bitterness. There is a nice creamy mocha note in there too. Pretty rich body but not cloying. Fairly lengthy coffee and roasted malt finish. A surprisingly good offering from Saranac. Definitely worth trying.
Pours a dark dark brown, thin light tan head. Thick fudge nose, with some caramel & nuts...flavors have some sharp roasted malts with equally sharp bittering hops, bitter chocolate, slight black marker, some alcohol..fairly full bodied and fairly bitter too. Not too shabby actually though I think the malt flavors are hard to grasp with that level of bitterness in the way.
Pours black from bottle with a thin khaki head. The aroma smells of furniture polish and burned malt. Thinner mouthfeel then I was expecting. Fair amount of alcohol on the tongue. Finish has a tad of bitterness which adds something to the beer. Pretty damn appalling!
010811: Very dark color with a good brown head. Roasted aroma. Flavor of roasted malt/coffe.really good stout with a nice creamy mouth feel
Pours black into a snifter. Mocha head recedes to skim the surface. Soy and chocolate aromas. Thin with soy, licorice and slightly soured espresso.
Bottle a black colored beer with a beige head aroma roasted malts fruits spicy and hops flavor roasted malts laurel chocolate spicy fruits and hops
Black body, brown head. Aroma of burned malt, dark berries, alcohol, coal. Flavour has lots of ash and some chocolate mousse. High roasted flavour. Thin and dry. Russian chocolate comes to mind.
355 ml bottle. Imperial Stout Tasting. From bierzwerg.de.
Black colour with small light brown head.
Roasted almost burned malt, berries, burned charcoal and wood in aroma.
Ash, roasted malt, dark chocolate (Soviet style) and balancing hops.
Decent.
Bottle. Pours a black beer with a light brown head. The aroma is malt, roasted and sweetness. The flavor follows the nose with additional chocolate, alcohol and notes of acidity. The palate is roasted with sweetness. Overall a good beer.
Pours black with a beige head. Aroma is roasted malt, alcohol, chocolate, liquorish and choffee. Flavour is roasted barley, malt acidic, chocolate and liquorish.
Fruit, chocolate and roasted malts. Not the best imperial stout out there. A little bit rough around the edges yet not something I would pour down the drain.
12oz bottle. Beautiful looking dark black pour with a pillowy, fluffy tan head. Great looking beer but not quite up there with the great ones - though still very good. A dry somewhat smoky, burnt taste more coffee than chocolate.
Thick deep black color. Nice head. Bottle. Tastes almost like an imperial porter. Walnuts, chcolate and hops. Really good. One of my favorites from sranac
Zlý Časy, Prága. Teljesen fekete színe van, habja világosbarna, krémes és egy vékony fátyol erejéig végig kitart. Kávés-gyümölcsös illata teljesen megfelel annak, amit egy amerikai imperial stout-tól várunk, egyébként különösen az aszalt szilva érezhető, de feltűnő fahéj is. Az íze is rendben van: kávé, keserű csoki és rengeteg gyümölcs, valamint igen sok komló az, ami végigkíséri az italozást, utóíze olyan, mint egy jobbfajta gyümölcslikőrrel megtoldott feketekávé, de a vörösboros, tanninos jegyek is egyértelműen érezhetőek. Szinte teljesen kiszárítja a szánkat, pezsgősen szénsavas és nincs is akkora teste, egészen könnyen csúszik. Ebben a típusban nem annyira kiemelkedő, de összességében nagyon finom sör, főként egy magyar fogyasztó számára.
courtesy of Allen - dark black with a persistent dark beige foam; nice lacework; aroma of cold coffee, mocha and walnuts; medium- to full-bodied, very tasty, slightly tart and fairly bitter; long aftertaste of hazelnuts and mocha
Black colored brew. Dark chocolate in the aroma and flavor. Heavy on the malts, sweet, some coffee. Medium bitterness.
Black with a lasting tan head. Aroma of toffee and licorice with a touch of citrus hops. Sweet malty flavour with licorice and a mild roasted finish
It’s pitch-black with a light-brown, creamy head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, licorice, dark fruit and light chocolate. The mouth-feel is oily. The flavour is slightly sweet with notes of roasted malt, dark fruits, licorice, light and salty soy-sauce. The finish is dry and slightly bitter.
Bottle from Burg Bieren. Black colour, tan head. Aroma is roasted malts, little coffee, bit grassy hops. Flavour is roasted malts, coffee, little fruityness. Ok stuff.
Taste is mostly coffee and chocolate malts with a nice dose of sweetness, hides the alcohol pretty well. Medium to thick mouthfeel. It’s a really solid imperial stout, and one of my favorites from Saranac.