4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20Pours a nice thick black with thin tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee, chocolate, slight vanilla, dark dried fruit, and a bit of bourbon? Flavor matches well, very easy to drink with alcohol well hidden. I could swear this is barrel aged though.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
A pitch black colored beer, with a big, thick foamy dark beige head. The aroma of coffee, dark fruits, dark malt and hints of spices. The taste of sweet dark fruits, a little sour, coffee, dark malts and bitter notes. The aftertaste is sweet a little sour with bitter.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
’07 bottle courtesy Flanders Ned. Molasses, bourbon, oak, vanilla, chocolate malt aroma. Viscous black pour with a thin creamy brown head. Coffee, sweet chocolate, prune, oaky bourbon, cherry vanilla flavor with a spicy hops finish. Full smooth body, alcohol warmth.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
More than 2 years old and packs a wallop. Black with fading beige head. Bourbon and
Big alcohol, Average mouthfeel,bourbon coconut,cocoa, chocolate malt, coffee all in that order.Good drinkability FlandersNed.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
16th December 2009
Opaque black beer. Frothy short lived chocolate coloured head. Subtle chocolate malt nose. Airy and semi soft palate, semi dry. Licorice dark malt with a blackcurrant undertone. Bitter dark chocolate. Some spice towards the dry finish, a trace of coffee and a little hop. Decent without ever reaching that sumptuous feel of the best RIS.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
12 ounce. Big black beer with very thin head. Little carbonation. Flavor is bourbon, coconut. Tasty, but body slightly thin. Lacks fullness of a big imperial stout. Bourbon drives most of the flavor.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours dark brown/black with a thin tan head...lively with decent lacing. Aroma is very roasty...somewhat burnt..with a hint of sweet coffee and a mild note of dark fruit. Flavor has coffee, caramel, a bit of chocolate...very roasty...burnt toffee or molasses. Mouthfeel is thick and sticky and the finish is warming and lingers with a roasty sweetness.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
12oz Bottle. Thanks Sean! First snow here in Rhode Island, so I’m ready for something thick, oily and viscous. I didn’t know what to expect, even though I’ve had the super-oaky barrel-aged versions. This was intensely delicious! A balanced, rich array of complex toasty, roasted, charred, and brown flavors. Lots of near-vinous fruit-like characters combined with a fantastic, silk and velvet tongue. Extremely sippable. A great, balanced and intensely flavorful stout!
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
12oz bottle thanks to northernbrews, pours black with a huge tan head that lingered forever, nice lacing, aroma is of molasses, caramel, chocolate and booze, the flavor is WAY too sweet for me, huge sweetness on the front end with molasses with a finish of booze, kind of reminded me of drinking port, which I enjoy just not in beer. Not my cup of tea here.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
Aroma: lots of mollasses, cherries, brown sugar.
Appearance: Black pour with no head.
Flavors: Mollasses, sweet caramel. The alcohol is very present too.
Palate: Very heavy with no carbonation.
Overall: Not very good. The aroma looked promising but the carbonation killed this one. Drinking it after the BB Dark apparition didn’t help either I guess ;)
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
12oz bottle. Poured deep brown with a lovely rich tan head. The aroma picked up warm, raw cane sugar, molasses, and mocha with more sugars and alcohol warmth around the nose.. vanilla and toasted coconut rounded it out.. this was very much on the sweet side, but it was very welcome for dessert. The flavor found warm dark chocolate, molasses, and coffee at the core.. huge coconut showed up about a third of the way through, and carried into the aftertaste.. peppery, raw alcohol and coconut over a lot of residual sugars in the end. Heavier-bodied with a bit of a syrupy feel on the palate.. hotter as it progressed.. the oats did give some smoothness on the middle.. overall a tad rough, but it had some very good characteristics in there too.
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