Heavy Seas - Peg Leg Imperial Stout - Heavy Seas Beer

winomark

Missouri

2.8/5  rDev -23.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5

Pours a dark brown; quite light for an Imperial Stout as it is advertised. Light, sticky light brown head. Lots of chocolate malt on the nose. Very mild coffee tones. No hops. More coffee on the palate, along with chocolate. High carbonation adds to a bitter and dry finish. Mouthfeel is very light for this style. Light, dry and bitter. An OK beer, but I would call this false advertising. This is a stout, but there is nothing imperial about it. No need to waste money on this one.

Serving type: bottle

12-20-2004 13:42:25 | More by winomark

Biffster

Michigan

1.88/5  rDev -48.5%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

The beer pours brilliant mahogony, with ruby and amber highlights. There is a low persistent off white head with lace clinging to the glass.

The aroma is almost overwhelmed with diacetyl. There is some roastiness and a hint of toffee. As the sample warms, a hint of burnt currant and some higer alcohols become noticeable.

The beer is sweet and toffee-like at the sip, with a fair amount of hop bitterness as it progresses. The swallow is sweet, with little hint of the burnt roasty character expected of an imperial stout. The finish has only a hint of alcohol warmth.

The body is medium/light, with medium/high carbonation and a bit of astringency.

Overall, this is a pretty good Imperial style Brown Ale, and maybe a passable Baltic porter. As an imperial stout, it is disappointing. It has little of the big body, roasty aroma, or burnt, fruity, roasty flavor one expects in an imperial stout.

Serving type: bottle

12-19-2004 03:10:28 | More by Biffster

RBorsato

Virginia

4.33/5  rDev +18.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Dark brown to black with lots of ruby on the edges to light. Nice light brown head, carbonation, and lace. Roasty coffee/espresso aroma. Burnt cocoa and roasty coffee flavors. Medium-full bodied and creamy with a dry roasty finish and a touch of alcohol...

Per C.C. website: Peg Leg Stout
Available - Late August
ABV: approx. 8.0%
IBU'S: 30
Malts: English Pale, Crystal, Chocolate and Black Barley
Hops: Styrian Goldings, Fuggles Magnum and Amarillo
Style: A dry Imperial stout with rich black color and aromas of roasted coffee, molasses, dark chocolate, toffee and caramel. Rich, powerful, and lingering. Available from August to around November.

Purchase before: Feb 2005
Tasted: 11/15/04

($7.99 / 6-pack)

Serving type: bottle

11-29-2004 18:33:42 | More by RBorsato

CRJMellor

Arkansas

3.85/5  rDev +5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Pours dark maroon or brown with black tones. Small whitsh colorded head forms on the pour but leaves no lace.
Aromas of carame, cocoa and chocolate with maybe just a hint of raisins.
Flavor of chocolate dominates the beginning, moving to a rich yet roasted middle and finishing with a highly resined nad piney bitter note. Too light for a big stout. This beer is a porter.
Mouthfeel is sweet malt but by roast in the middle and gritty, coffee grind-like finish. Too light on the tongue and palate to be a stout.
Drinkability is OK. Seems to well-made beer. Some good malt notes and decent amount of bittering just too light for style advertised.

Serving type: bottle

11-20-2004 03:25:37 | More by CRJMellor

Billolick

New York

3.83/5  rDev +4.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

sampled a 12 ouncer with notched freshness dating on the label. Pours a very dark brown, with some light coming through. Head was darkest of tan, leaves some lacing. Nose of musty malt. This is a dark and muddy brew, some burnt flavors, mocha, coffee, chocolate notes. Does not, as expressed in other reviews, exhibit, the deep, rich, maltyness nor burnt malt flavors nor over abundance of complexity expected and hoped for in an Imperial stout. this is more like a rich porter or decent stout. nevertheless this is a worthy brew, just not to the style advertized.

Serving type: bottle

11-11-2004 01:31:58 | More by Billolick

WVbeergeek

Ohio

3.2/5  rDev -12.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5

Appearance: Pours a dark caramel brown tone seems thin and a bit porterish in the pour definitely not your typical imperial stout. It does form a nice sized moccha tan head leaving ample lacing around my pint glass. Aroma: Light chocolate, caramel, and chocolate notes along with an herbaceous hop profile, seems a bit repressed with minimal fruit tones shining through. Taste: This brew was more reminscient of a roasty brown ale or your run of the mill porter rather than an Impy Stout. No one taste jumps out at me reminiscient of somebody's first attempt homebrewing their own Imperial Stout where they underestimated the malt bill completely. Chocolate, coffee, tart raisin, touch of vanilla compromises many of the flavors I can pick out once again leaving me with an herbal tea note for a hop profile. Mouthfeel: Thin and light bodied for the style maybe good for beginners in craft brew but hard to consider this brew a true imperial style stout, I mean c'mon a light bodied imperial stout isn't that some sort of contradiction. Unoffensive on many levels nice even carbonation not much else to note. Drinkability: Easy to consume not very challenging to my senses, and not the big beer I was looking for.

Serving type: bottle

11-09-2004 22:08:48 | More by WVbeergeek

nogoodreason

Missouri

3.95/5  rDev +8.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Dark, dark, dark, almost black, ruby red. Fine tan head. A rather attractive brew, if appearing a bit too thin-bodied for the style.

Nose is clean, caramel malts and a nice roasty character. Some grapefruit rind hop presence.

Thinnish body, but nicely balanced carbonation. Really roasty, with a semi-sweet chocolate in the body. There are several layers of maltiness: roast, chocolate, caramel and a cleaner lighter malt beneath it all. Some hop bitterness accentuates the roast. Finishes dry and with very evident chocolate.

Very well executed.

The low ratings of this beer seem slightly out of place. While it's not in style as an imperial stout, it is a damn nice dry stout. Body was a little lacking, but the flavor was there, save for the fruity vinuous aspects you'd expect from a impy stout. I like it.

Serving type: bottle

11-05-2004 23:48:25 | More by nogoodreason

meathookjones

Virginia

3.18/5  rDev -12.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Always nice to see a local big beer like an Imperial Stout come out. This poured out an oily black with about an inch of tan head. The head had decent retention and scattered lace was left as I drank this. Aroma was of chocolate, a bit of fruit and a touch of alcohol. Not to strong or complex, but not bad. Flavor is similar with a chocolate malt sweetness being dominate. A bit weak for an Imperial Stout, maybe a porter or regular stout but this is the smallest tasting Imperial Stout I have had. There were some roasty notes on the finish. Mouthfeel was silky with a medium body. Decent drinkability as a beer but not as a RIS. Its maybe a light Imperial Stout but not what it claims. A good beer though in its own right I would have it again knowing what to expect the next time.

Serving type: bottle

11-03-2004 16:12:43 | More by meathookjones

francisweizen

Australia

3.6/5  rDev -1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 4

This is more like a "single porter" than a "double stout". Dark red on the pour and certainly not opaque. The aromas are good and are that of a watered down imperial stout. I nose coffee, caramel, vanilla, a bit of oak, chocolate, and roasted malts. The taste is good but too light for the style. Where are the deep fig, kurrant, and burnt malt flavors? The mouthfeel is super thin for any sort of stout, but for what it is the drinkability remains good. A decent beer, but definately not to style.

Serving type: bottle

10-28-2004 20:38:29 | More by francisweizen

IrishRedRock

Pennsylvania

3.25/5  rDev -11%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5

Ordered this up at the bar only knowing it was a stout. Upon receiving the bottle, I was pumped that it was an Imperial Stout. Upon pouring and tasting, I was disappointed that it really wasn't an Imperial Stout.

Pours a mucky brown color with red highlights. Notes of coffee and sweet malts in the nose, with a dry astringency and thin carbonation in the mouthfeel. Sweet chocolate notes and some mild roastiness but the flavor is lacking, as is the body. As a beer, its average. As an Imperial Stout, it's really lacking. Better off portrayed as an English porter.

Serving type: bottle

10-20-2004 00:50:40 | More by IrishRedRock

Citadel82

New Jersey

3.8/5  rDev +4.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Deep deep brown in color-not quite black. Good carbonation level decent if short lived head. Some malt aroma and some hints of roasting. initial toasted malt flavor-doesnt have the robust fullnes and strong hop bitterness of the other imperials I have tried . Decent enough mouthfeel-good body but again doesnt live up to the imperial class IMHO. Above notwithstanding I could enjoy several of these in one sitting.

Overall a decent beer.

Serving type: bottle

10-11-2004 15:32:34 | More by Citadel82

GCBrewingCo

North Carolina

3.8/5  rDev +4.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 4.5

The beer poured black with a ruby highlight. The head was tan, huge and lasted to coat the glass.

The aroma was chocolate and coffee with a definite caramel presence. The coffee was huge when first poured into the glass and noticeable from a distance. Some fruitiness was present.

The flavor was chocolate and coffee with a noticeable hop bittering component that lasts throughout the flavor. The fruitiness is present but not complex. The alcohol never raised it head to let you know it is present.

The finish was just dry and a complex mix of chocolate, coffee and bittering. The body was medium full and just a bit less than expected from an Imperial Stout.

12 ounce bottle, best before Feb 05. One of the Heavy Seas seasonals from Clipper City which have become favorites. A bit of a sleeper beer. Missing body for an Imperial Stout, it is nonetheless a very nice an drinkable beer. The alcohol is not present in aroma, flavor or finish so tread lightly. Would have probably been better presented as a Baltic Porter.

Serving type: bottle

10-08-2004 23:37:28 | More by GCBrewingCo

sideshowrob

Maryland

3.78/5  rDev +3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Had this one on tap at Max's. Beer was a deep brown/light black in color. poured with very little head. Smell was not overpowering, but provided some good malty notes. Initial taste revealed some buttery notes with just a hint of roasted malt in the back end. Alcohol taste was present, but not unbalanced with the beer. Pretty good mouthfeel, aided by the low carbonation. Very easy and undemanding to drink.

Serving type: on-tap

09-16-2004 09:43:30 | More by sideshowrob