Cigar City Marshal Zhukov's Penultimate Push

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

750mL bottle pours with a pure dark void where all light goes in and never returns and supporting a thin tan head. The aroma offers up dark roasted malts, dark roasted coffee, a burnt malty note, a dash of vanilla and then chocolate brownie. Oh. It's on. The taste delivers rich smooth nectar sugar reduction yum. It then gets quickly into dark roastiness, dark roasted coffee and charred maltiness. Toward the finish vanilla and then some soft smooth bourbon comes to the surface. Wow.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 10 | Overall: 10

Something to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first "Star Wars" movie hitting the theatres. (Remember when it was called simply "Star Wars"?) Pours coffee sable with a thick chocolate head that leaves good lacing. Dang, this takes the Appearance level all the way to 11! Aroma offers roast malt, coffee, vanilla, smoky, and subtle earthy tones. Flavor bursts with coffee, chocolate, roast malt, smoky, earthy, vanilla and even slight nutty tones. A stout worthy of a Marshal! It is sweet but not cloying. Viscous mouthfeel presents peppy fizz. I did a little boning up on Zhukov, and apparently he was one helluva general - we needed him to kick Hitler’s ass. Thanks, Georgy. And thanks, Cigar City, for a superb Imperial Stout.