ABV: 9.7%
A black body and a coffee coloured head (the head is darker than it appears in the picture) this imperial stout by Mohawk (a Swedish nomad brewer) is not what you expect from a drink in this category.
The first thing I noticed when pouring this beer was a very powerful grapefruit aroma that I was able to smell from a meter away. The fruity flavour carries through to the taste and the body is much lighter than you would expect. There is also a small amount of hop bitterness as the beer goes down, and it lingers a while. While there is some malt character in the flavour it definitely takes a back seat to the citrus and you have to look for it.
Rating: 3.5/5 – I expect fruits and hops in my IPA, not my stout. Tasty but calling it an Imperial Stout is misleading.
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