Our Tastes-- Five Crown Imperial Stout

I'm offended that this is described as a "winter brew". Some of us enjoy a nice heavy black one in the middle of the summer. Pouring the antithesis of white light, Joe Formanek's 15 year practiced Imperial Stout is also part of the 2011 LongShot winners and pours a full bodied 8.9% brew. Head is thick medium brown with little alcohol nose and a slap to the nostrils of pure burnt toast. Hop nose comes on for me only because I can only imagine what hop additions had to be a part of this brew to balance it out in the slightest. The roasted malt bill sits squarly on the back of the tongue well after the last of it has passed into the gullet.