Growler pours out a black topped with a tan head. Nose is nice barrel notes vanilla roast malts coffee chocolate and some ash. Taste is more of the nice big roast chocolate vanilla barrel and a light smoke coffee.

32 ounce growler. Pours black with a decent tan head. Aroma of malt, chocolate, and bourbon. Taste is roasted malt, dark chocolate, bourbon, dark fruit, and some coffee. Nice.

Bottle. Pours a very dark brown with medium beige head that lasts. The aroma is roast, wood, chocolate, ash. Medium body, roasted malt, dark chocolate, smoke, wood, light booze finish, very good.

VIntage 2013. Keg @ Town Hall. Deep brown pour with a creamy tan head. Nose is pretty well rounded, inviting. Dark chocolate. Mellow coffee. A bit of shag tobacco and old leather. Light vanilla. Earthy char. Mild signs of barrel aging. Flavor is sweet with a warm finish. Nice and chewy. Burnt brown sugar. Toasty malt. Dark chocolate. Full and rich, oily on the palate. Light woody heat on the finish. A sipper, but still pretty elegant. Nice.

Bottle: Vintage 2012: Served in a Chouffe glass: Creamy brown head. Black body. Aroma is very vinous with loads of wood. Also some metallic, roast, berry and a hint of alcoholic chocolate. Flavour is again very vinous, some roast, berries, hint of bourbon, some mocha, again lot of wood and some raisin. Aftertaste is bitter, mocha, bourbon, some praline and berries... Low carbo, creamy soft mouthfeel, between medium and full bodied. Seems to have some ties with wild/sour ale, possibly a light infection, still drinks fine, even a bit "refreshing".

Tap at Town Hall Tap. Black with a thin light brown ring. Molasses, oaky, light roasted coffee, a little raisins and earthy. Taste is complex, mild raisin sweetness with a woody dryness before finishing lightly bitter. Body is heavier with a milky feel.

Bottle at Tasting, Seattle. Oily black pour, with thick tan head. Deep vanilla chocolate. Thick stout. Creamy big beer. Oatmeal grain, alc rise, lots of dry coffee. Big, quite lovely. Bittering finish.

Sample at brewery. Minneapolis. Pours dark brown with tan head Aroma is dark chocolate, coffee, a little bit of whiskey, roasted malts. Taste is dark chocolate bitterness. Body is medium, soft carbonation, long finish. Generally good, but the body is a little thin. Barrel did not come through as much as I would have liked.

Sampled from the tap at the brewpub. Pours black with a chestnut brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma is full of roasted malts and dark grain with a bit of sweetness from the bourbon and a hint of smoke. Flavor has lots of roasted malts and a bit of smoke up front with bourbon and dark grains growing throughout the beer.

Tap at Town Hall. Pours dark black with foamy tan head. Aroma is strong alcohol and malts. Taste follows, too much wiskey flavor for my liking but a really solid stout.