UPDATED: MAY 17, 2022 Pours black with a one finger, tan head. Aroma is licorice, molasses and roast. Taste is rich licorice and brown sugar, moving to roast. Finish is sweet licorice and roast, with some burn.

UPDATED: JUL 18, 2020 12 ounce can poured into a brandy snifter. The beer is a thick black with a beige head of foam. Thick raisins and rubbing alcohol. Licorice and gummy bears. Sweet and earthy bitterness. Bigger body and medium carbonation.

UPDATED: MAY 10, 2019 Well, holy shit. This is one bigass beer. Brickway's Epic Blackout is massively boozy, but I commend them for taking on this challenge and managing to create something that's so high in alcohol but also quite drinkable. As you'd expect for something with 17% ABV, there is quite a lot of alcohol warmth and sweetness. Still, the blackened malt provides some balancing flavors of milk chocolate, black licorice, and burnt bread. This Imperial Stout is a sipper. It's thick and robust. It gets steadily more intense as it warms. Impressively, this Stout feels every bit as big as it is, but the character isn't obnoxious.

UPDATED: APR 4, 2019 12 ounce can. Pours almost black with a nice brown head. Aroma of chocolate, malt, coffee, and vanilla. Taste is similar. Hides the alcohol content well. Nice.

UPDATED: MAR 26, 2019 Dark brown with a light brown head. Aroma is pine, citrus, chocolate, vanilla and wood. Taste is medium/heavy sweet and heavy bitter. Palate is medium body, oily feel with average carbonation and warming alcoholic finish.

Can thanks to AJ. Pours a dark brown with small beige head that lasts. The aroma is strong smoke, roast, oak, licorice. Slick body, roast, dark chocolate, oak, vanilla, licorice, alcohol well hidden, really enjoyed this.

Ridiculously rich dark brown coloured body with almost no head at all - what is there is tan coloured. Aroma of super roasted malt and a lot of licorice, tons of brown sugars and a heavy note of honey, yeast and loads of alcohol. Rich, super full-bodied; Bright notes of maple syrup, brown sugar, honey, molasses and licorice dominate and leave the mouth very sweet with some lighter yeast and roasted malt flavours at the finish. Coffee, milk and especially chocolate make this very nice and very smooth, incredibly easy to drink for 17,0%! Aftertaste shows a ton of malts with a big honey and licorice finish with the alcohol of course and a lot of lactose around the fringes. Overall, a very nice Imperial Stout that i'm very happy to sample in a 4 ounce pour instead of a full pint or in a bottle/can, this is a nice beer, but very heavy! I sampled this four ounce pour as part of a flight of six at the brewpub in Omaha, Nebraska on 16-March-2018 for US$10,50 for all six, sampled while here in the Old Market.

Sample from can at Extreme Beer Fest. Pour, black, tan head. Aroma was booze, roasted malt, dark chocolate. Taste was bittersweet, alcohol, roasted malts.

Didn't realize it was this strong. Opened it too late. Anyway. Crazy sweet. Cocoa and sweet milky boozy taste. Black 12oz can. Thick and rich. Whoa

UPDATED: MAY 19, 2017 B.+ Pours a black color with khaki head. Very thick, very full of flavor. Intense! Unfortunately i have to drink in small amounts because of the 17% ABV