Dark Horse Plead the 5th

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

This beer drinks pretty good, don't it? Super well balanced imperial stout, incredibly easy drinking--and great flavors of chocolate and roasted malts. Great stout.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Pours opaque coffee brown with a serviceable tan head. Aroma offers molasses, roast malt, quality coffee and chocolate tones. Flavor nicely echoes the aroma while sticking in some evergreen hops. Firm moutfeel has good fizz. Plead for a bottle.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Sampled from bottle. Pours opaque black-brown with a collared dark tan head. Cocoa-coffee aroma with some dark, dried fruit notes. Very pleasant and makes the beer much more inviting that its lackluster appearance. Balanced with loads of roasted malt flavor and just enough dark fruit esters from the yeast to make it interesting. Not too hot and nice moderate carbonation to make it drinkable. Bitterness comes in the finish. Very good imperial stout.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Pours motor oil thick, seriously opaque with a small tan head which dispated quickly leaving a little lace. The aroma was of light coffee and a little chocolate, sticks to you after the third or so sniff. The taste is incredibly complex, all over the place with this brew, sweet bitter chocolate and hardcore espresso. You feel the malts like as if drinking beer for the first time, is it the best stout ever....little room for improvement. The mouthfeel is a rough coffee bean feel in the end that is almost forever lasting. Only issue is hate coffee which carries over to this beer.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

Pours a completely jet black with no head what-so-ever. Light has no chance in hell passing through this one. Aroma is very heavy with roasted malts, oats, and toffee. Taste is heavy on the coffee bitterness. Hints of chocolate, toffee, and roasted malts. Also has the distinctive flavor that can only be described as what a camp fire smells like. Slight burn as it goes down but you don't detect the high ABV. Very nice beer.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

This bottle has been in my cellar for about a year. Even though Dark Horse distributes to western Pennsylvania, I don't see a lot of Plead the Fifth around and I've only had the pleasure of sampling this a few other times. Intense black pour with the viscosity of used motor oil and a head bordering on black. Licorice dominates the nose, along with a strong presence of roasted malts/barley. Incredibly smooth mouthfeel that isn't as thick as the pour would suggest. Flavors consist of cherries, chocolate, coffee, licorice, and oak that meld perfectly together and leave me wanting more after each sip. Massively drinkable. Personally this is one of my favorite non-barrel aged imperial stouts. A must try for all dark beer aficianados - and for craft beer fans in general. Superb.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

From kinger - been sitting on this one for about a year: mahogany brown-black pour, tall sustained tan head, huge lacing. Welcome aromas of dark and sweet chocolates, licorice, vanilla, toasted malts, earthy hoppiness. Taste is very smooth for 12% ABV, with an initial sweetness from the malts - rich, creamy, smooth, chocolatey, and vanilla - then more roasted malt goodness, a touch of licorice and molasses. Again, extremely smooth for high gravity, glad I let it age a year. HUGE thanks to Cory for this excellent tasty stout.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

I enjoyed this courtesy of the King, I can get Dark Horse but I've never tried it, this beer makes me want to have more. This is a big old imp, stands up and walks down your throat like all the good ones. Tons of licorice in the smell and flavor, nice balance though too, just enough hops. Really well crafted and thought out, nice excecution, thanks Cory!

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

first impression at a mass tasting was not so good, but since we had it at the tail end, i didn't score it til now, after a 2nd solo bottle, which was really quite enjoyable. pours near black and pretty thick. smells and tastes of char, dark fruit, heavy roast. quite sweet with a slight bitter smoke aftertaste. lots going on. while not one of my favorite impy's, it was quite good.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Now known as Plead the 5th Imperial Stout, same beer.......same wonderful, delicious beer. Midnight black body with a lasting and large brown head, thick lacing. Heavily sweetened, roasted aromas with a hint of lactose, black licorice and vanilla. Drinkable and heavy bodied with a prominent sweetness. Flavors are the same as the scents along with some dark berries, coffee, big bitter chocolate and toffee. Hearty, hefty and heavenly.