UPDATED: APR 2, 2024 Can't believe in all my years of rating that I've never rated this one before. Classic look and stout feel. Clean finish. Roast, toasted malts, chocolate, expresso. Maybe a little thin at times but quite drinkable.

UPDATED: JAN 12, 2024 $NZ 6.20 for 355 ml bottle from Beer Cellars (NZ) online : Inky black beer with big foamy tan coloured head ... mocha/dark chocolate/espresso aroma , toasty burnt malt ... frothy mouthfeel , bitter , heavily burnt malt taste : Yum !

UPDATED: OCT 13, 2022 November 6, 2014 On tap at St Augustine’s on The Drive in Vancouver. Full black with tan head. Overfilled glass allows little nose. Rich chocolate and coffee overtones on the palate. Rich and satisfying. Medium body, oily texture and soft carbonation. And again Nov 06 2014 at Alibi Room in Vancouver. Impressions are about the same. A great stout. October 13, 2022 On tap at St Augustine's in Vancouver. Damn! Is it really 8 years since my last sip of this stout? Apparently so. Roasted malt and cocoa notes abound. The balance is notable, striking the tricky arbitrage between a dry stout and a sweet stout. Yessir 😃👍

UPDATED: AUG 31, 2022 From bottle (pkd Sept'21) in porter glass. Pours near black w/a half inch of tan head, aroma is roasty/toasty, dark choc & mocha. Rich malty taste tempered by firm bitterness. Top shelf

UPDATED: JUN 12, 2022 Nearly black with a rocky light brown head. Aroma is coffee, chocolate, earthy, and ashy. Taste is light/medium sweet and medium/heavy bitter.

UPDATED: MAY 26, 2022 Pours very dark brown with a beige, creamy, fully lasting head that leaves excellent lysing. Medium body medium bitter and dry flavors of espresso, Coffee and molasses. Aroma of black strong coffee and molasses. Finish his brief and experienced in the top backOf my throat. An excellent stout but a bit too much coffee for my taste.

UPDATED: MAR 12, 2022 Coffee, chocolate malt, ash, and dry hay aroma. Black with moderate tan head. Lightly sweet coffee, dark chocolate malt, and moderately bitter ash and dry hay flavor. Good body. A classic.

UPDATED: FEB 24, 2022 35cl Fles van Beer Republic. Zwarte kleur, beige kraag. Flink gebrande aroma's, koffie, pure chocolade, brownie, hoppig, gebrande mout, caramel, goed bitter, hint van grapefruit. Medium body. Goed spul.

UPDATED: DEC 1, 2021 Bottle from Beer Republic. Hazy black, thin, beige head. Strong aroma of espresso, fondant, burnt toast, tobacco, brown bread, dried fig, chestnut, teriyaki. Taste has sweetish fig & prune, quickly engulfed by a powerful toasty malt body with accents of nuts, coffee and earthy-umami teriyaki sauce. Deeply earthy hoppy finish, dried dark fruits lingering but mainly do the espresso, fondant & tobacco, very dry and bitter. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation. It's almost a relief to have a 'classic' Stout like this again. Just perfect in all aspects, and in balance.

UPDATED: SEP 17, 2021 Flaska. Svart med medelstort och beständigt beige skum. Dofter av kaffe, rostad malt, mörk choklad, trä. I smaken fyller det på en mörka bär och en gnutta vanilj. Halvtorr munkänsla, rostad avslutning. Medelstor kropp.