UPDATED: SEP 23, 2022 Bomber, 2013 vintage. Rich roasted malt aroma with notes of dark chocolate, molasses, licorice, vanilla, honey, bourbon and oak. Pours deep brown with half a finger of mocha brown head that has good retention and decent lacing. Starts with roasted malt, dark chocolate, molasses and honey flavors as well as having a rich, full body and slick, viscous mouthfeel. Finishes dry but quite smooth with licorice, vanilla, bourbon and oak flavors. Still quite excellent after 8+ years.

UPDATED: JAN 14, 2022 Bottle sample at a tasting. Opaque black with brown head. The aroma has notes of prune, oxidised, alcohol, soy sauce, dried fruits, acetaldehyde. The flavor is mild sweet and bitter with notes of alcohol, oxidised, soy sauce, dark Full-bodied.

UPDATED: DEC 30, 2021 Bottle at a tasting. 2017ed. ABV 11%. Brown black, beige head. Soy sauce, chocolate, wood. Sweet, dark chocolate, roasted, caramel, honey, bitter, alcoholic. Medium-bodied.

UPDATED: MAY 24, 2020 Ordered online last Fall from SAQ, the day where all Cantillons were sold within 15 minutes. This is my 1500th, happy to celebrate with something classy. Very tasty and potent imperial stout, taken while doing some yard work and renovation on my shed.

UPDATED: MAR 1, 2020 Busy aroma of red wine, butterscotch, bourbon barrel, vanilla and Evan Williams SiB. Flat black body, dark brown head. The taste has everything from the aroma, with more oak, bourbon barrel and a moderately hot but abrupt finish. Palate was thinner than I would have liked, but this is a great Impy that everyone should try given the chance.

UPDATED: FEB 20, 2020 Aroma of caramel, vanilla, and treacle. Taste is pine, caramel, vanilla, and bourbon.

UPDATED: DEC 24, 2019 2017 bottle. Jet black with a huge vanilla, bourbon, earthy, sticky, caramelly nose. Big burnt brown sugar notes, soy, dark chocolate and HUGE bourbon notes. A real barrel bomb. Mouth feel is thick, and syrupy, with a soft carb. Finish is medium to highly bitter, with a strong bourbon barrel finish, with some light vanilla, and charred roast. Alcohol is warming, and this is a definitive sipper. Don't go crazy with this one, it'll bit you.

UPDATED: AUG 30, 2019 A 22 fl. oz. waxed bomber, 2016 vintage. Poured into a snifter glass. It was dark dark brown to black in colour with a one and a half finger tanned head that had decent retention and left some nice lacing. Aromas are roasty, chocolate, toffee, coffee, bourbon, vanilla with a hint of licorice. Tastes moderately sweet, bourbon, fruit cake, raisin, fig, light roast, chocolate, molasses, honey, licorice. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. Overall, not enough roastiness as it was overpowered by the sweetness and bourbon. Body was also lighter than I prefer my Imperial Stouts to be.

UPDATED: MAY 19, 2019 Flaska från Beergium drucken med ölföreningen. 2017 vintage. LIte kärvare än vad jag minns andra Eclipse. Fin fattoner från whiskeyn. Mycket gott men inte wow.

UPDATED: MAY 1, 2019 65cl Bottle @ Boxbeers.com, Copenhagen, Denmark. Black colour with a thin tan head. Aroma is roasted malt, cocoa, coffee, vanilla, bourbon. Taste is roasted malt, dark chocolate, sweet, coffee, vanilla, bourbon, oak. Full body, soft carbonation.