UPDATED: JUL 5, 2023 12oz bottle pours out black topped with a small tan head. Nose is rum forward rich malts chocolate roast vanilla. Taste is more of the nice sweet chocolate roast malts coffee rum kick.

UPDATED: JUL 2, 2023 12oz bottle at share, 2015 vintage. Black pour, thin beige head. Aroma roasty malts soaked in rum. Taste is roasty, nutty, earthy, wooden barrel, brown sugar and the ever present rum. Boozy too.

UPDATED: JUN 22, 2021 Bottle. A- Rum, sweet fudge, coconut cream. A- Black color, black liquid, brown head. T- Rum, sweet, toasted coconut, fudge, caramelized sugars, rich. P- Full body, average texture, average carbonation, cloying finish. O- At 2 years old this was still very boozy. The rum was strong and like a cheap coconut rum. The first few oz were fantastic but by halfway through the bottle this became very cloying. 12 oz is definitely worth sharing. Good but not stellar.

UPDATED: MAR 28, 2021 Bottle from Duvall Market in Austin, TX. Aroma is boozy dark chocolate, vanilla, rich dark chocolate dessert. Taste is tangy, dark chocolate, spike of booze. Extremely well balanced and rich but never cloying. Another amazing Prairie stout.

UPDATED: AUG 29, 2020 Bottle 355ml at home. From Beergium. Pours black with beige head. Flavor has dark malts, licorice, chocolate, rum barrel, dried fruits. Full body, oily texture, soft carbonation, roasted finish.

UPDATED: JUL 26, 2020 12oz bottle from Craft Beer Cellar in Pewaukee. About black pour with a brown head. Aroma has roasted malts, chocolate, vanilla, and spirit, with wood. Taste is of sweet malts, rum, and wood. Vaguely there is cocoa & some roast. The rum is too much at this point, but possibly a year in the cellar may help. Medium to full bodied, there is an alcohol presence, and the blend is solid, but too rum-focused right now. Finishes sweetly roasty, with sweet alcohol. 14.5

UPDATED: JUL 16, 2020 If you love rum you will love this stout. Not bad for what it is but it's not my thing so much. Quite boozy for 12% 4/5

UPDATED: JUL 13, 2020 0,355l bottle at home. No obvious BB date. black color, no head. smells rummy, vanilla, wood, oak, soy sauce, light spices. nice smell. full body, light carbonation. tastes of vanilla, rum, molasses, boozy, light chocolate, subtle soy sauce. finishes bit boozy and lightly sweet with notes of vanilla, rum and a long lasting fudgy finish. nice to very nice one, booze is a bit obvious, but overall good to drink. liked the regular Noir (bourbon) a bit better. A lot more fudgy and chocolate forward once it warms up.

UPDATED: JUN 25, 2020 Svart med lys brunt skum. Lukter kaffe og engelsk lakris. Fyldig. Smaker salt lakris, soyasaus og kaffe. Lang bitter avslutning.

UPDATED: MAY 15, 2020 12% abv and showed it. The boozy rum notes started off overpowering and backed up a bit only slightly as it warmed. It was just over the line into too boozy, and I should have aged this for a year or two to take the edge off. You could tell the base stout underneath was excellent. Strong notes of chocolate, rum (of course), wood, vanilla, and coconut. Bottle from Sarah for Beervent 2019.