Bottle Conditioned

I’m sitting on the porch right now enjoying a thunderstorm and an Imperial Stout. Nice night. The Imperial Stout in mention is the Clipper City Peg Leg. I figured, since I’m sitting here with the computer on my lap and a beer in my hand, it makes sense to blog about it.

This is a pretty good impy stout, if a bit light on the body and roast. I tend to like my Imperial Stouts to be big, complex, roasty and with a nice hint of prune or raisin. This is good, just not terribly complex. Off the top, I get a good amount of alcohol. At 8% that’s not terribly surprising, but I have tasted some with higher alc that have it a bit better integrated. There is some chocolate roast, more like a coffee bean type note that simmers along the top of the beer but never really gets terribly interesting. Bitterness is about right in the back of the mouth, spiked by enough roasty astringency to get your attention. Honestly, that’s just about it with this beer, except for a bit or caramel in the taste…not much to my palate tho.

Overall, it’s not bad. Not great, but not bad. I MIGHT buy it again, or order it somewhere, but I can think of others that I’d seek out first.

Now, all that said, I LOVE Clipper City’s beer, especially their Loose Cannon IPA. Between Mollie and I, that could be our favorite IPA. So, give their stuff a try, we highly recommend it.

(Oh, and we can’t get it in TN, so if you’d like to send us a couple hundred cases, that’d be great.)

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