UPDATED: FEB 11, 2023 3/2/2023. Bottle shared by Colin, cheers. Pours black with a small frothy tan coloured head. Good looking beer. Aroma of dark chocolate, coffee, heavy roasted malt, ash, dark fruits. Moderate sweetness, medium to heavy bitterness. Full bodied, slick mouthfeel, above average carbonation.

UPDATED: DEC 30, 2022 15Dec2022 Oxidised, dark roast malts,, caramel, burnt toast, chocolate. Hazy, very dark brown, small, creamy, beige head. Light bitter. Dark roast malts , burnt malts, cardboard, oxidised notes, soft carb, full bod. Nice, oxidised though. Bottle at L6 Tasting, London.

UPDATED: DEC 15, 2022 Bottle at the Columbus Christmas Tasting. 15/12/2022. Thanks to LKS . A dark brown coloured pour wit a hlo of tan head. Aroma is salty, stale brown bread, rye, tcp, peat. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, woody toasted malts, burnt rye bread, salt, peat,spicy , bready, salty. Palate is semi sweet, salty, very simple.

UPDATED: DEC 15, 2022 15th December 2022
Xmas Boozy Bottleshare. Thanks to Leighton. Near opaque dark brown beer, small tan head. Palate is thin and light and semi dry, modest fine carbonation. Thin dark malts, oxidised, ripe fruits. Quite a dry finish. Tastes older than it is. Odd.

UPDATED: DEC 15, 2022 Bottle shared in London - picked up in the US. Pours deep brown with a frothy, tan head. Light to medium sweet with dry roast, ash, baking cocoa, earth. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Dry finish, more light ashy roast, earthy bitterness, burnt toast. Not bad overall.

UPDATED: JAN 6, 2021 On tap at Pit Stop in Burien. I'm not sure how old or any other details but I drank a few sips and left it alone. Bitter, rough, not right for consumption and I'm a big stout lover. I've had this long ago and it was more drinkable.

UPDATED: APR 20, 2020 Keg at Pike Brewery Taproom, Seattle, WA on 02/09/2008. A fantastic stout. Rich, big, roasty, bitter, balanced. Everything pretty much on point, and so moreish!

UPDATED: JUL 8, 2019 Draft at the brewery. Opaque with a frothy, tan head. Aroma of chocolate and dark roast coffee. Smooth and creamy.

UPDATED: APR 27, 2019 65cl bottle at home (27 IV 2019), as Pike XXXXX Stout. Allready shared such a bottle at a beer geeks gathering, now let's have this world class stout a go at a more convenient pace. The black tanned brew with orange-red to even brown gloom - never being sticky, whatsoever - comes with almost no foam. The beer is pitch-black at its core. The nose has a typical dry stout character, with a herbal and even creamy body. Think of black chocolate, of course, but also several hints at cacao, cigar, chocolate ice cream topping. The roasted malts are omnipresent. The mouthfeel is very soft, with just a hidden carbonation at best. The body is a sour, with different bitter chocolate and smoked malt features. Sweetness is unresponsive, which is nice. This continues being a good-old stout, so don't expect an explosion of taste sensations. The warming alcoholic touch is smooth and restrained. Here again, one can just feel those creamy, yeasty dashes. At the end, a caramel feeling drops in - making this a great treat.

UPDATED: MAR 5, 2019 Ingredients: Water, Malt, Hops, and Yeast....Plain and simple. A nice chocolate stout with good hop finish. Balance close to perfect for this style. Similar to the new Guiness Foreign Extra. This is my first sample from Pike and is a nice start. Solid beer that I would try again.