4.8 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20UPDATED: AUG 26, 2012 2011 bottle. Pours black, tan head that diminishes to fingernail thin head with nice lacing. Big dark berries and roasted coffee in the nose. More dark berries in the taste, gourmet chocolate, wild mint, and coffee with a bitter coffee finish with more of the wild mint. Phenomenal.
4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
2012 Bottle from kbudd19, thanks Kevin!! Aroma has great notes of coffee, dark chocolate, roasted malts, smoke, vanilla, molasses. Black hue with a tiny light tan head that mostly diminished and left a little lace. Flavor is very sweet and bitter. Palate is full bodied and watery with a very soft carbonation. Overall a very good RIS with a great nose. I would’ve liked more carbonation and a bigger mouth-feel but it’s still delicious.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
The head is medium, the body black. It smells sour, roasty, caramel-sour, darkmalty. The taste is darkmalty, roasty, sour, special, caramel, intensive. 11/12/11/12/11/10
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Keg at the Euston Tap. The pour’s deep murky brown with a to y head. The nose is roast chocolate, toffee, brownie, nut bar. Rich, earthy sweetness. The taste is rich coffee, chocolate cake, dirt. Dark roasted chocolate bitterness. Hints vanilla and ash. Wonderful stuff, a great impulse stout. Nice.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
Blackish pour. Small tan head. No lacing. Coffee and chocolate and figs in the nose. Sweet malty flavor with huge notes of coffee. A slight earthy taste in the finish with a slight bitterness.
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3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
12oz bottle. 2010 vintage.
A: Opens with a substantial hiss and the pour yields a really aggressive mocha head. The way it explodes reminds me of an infected beer, but fortunately this isn’t being murdered by yeast. Very deep black.
N: Lots of whisky, chocolate, metal. Brandy and raisins. Vanilla. Plenty of brown sugar, burnt caramel, coffee, and peanuts. Plenty of smoke.
T: Acrid smoke, burnt caramel, intense oak. Can be somewhat astringent and it varies behind really harsh and tasty. However, the end of this is really, really, bad as all the yeast settled to the bottom.
M: Very well carbonated and the mouthfeel seems somewhat thin. Dry and acrid. Lack of alcohol.
O: All over the place. Complex, smokey, then very flawed and astringent. Don’t think I’d buy this again.
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 18/20
Aroma: Coffee, roasted malt Appearance: Full thin lace, dark dark brown, almost no see through Taste: Coffee, roasted malt, soft carbonation
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bouteille 330ml, courtoisie de mathieuc. De couleur noire et opaque. Nez de malt rôti, moyen de café, légèrement fruité (petits fruits foncés), de chocolat noir, de houblon herbeux et de mélasse avec des notes d’alcool et de réglisse noire. Ronde-moyenne en bouche avec un pétillement moyen-doux ainsi qu’une texture riche, légèrement crémeuse et aux notes huileuses. Léger goût fruité (petits fruits foncés, traces de fruits confits) avec des notes de réglisse noire ainsi que des traces de vanille lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute un goût de malt rôti avec un moyen-léger goût de chocolat noir et un léger goût de mélasse sucrée puis en finale l’on retrouve un moyen goût de café avec une moyenne amertume de houblon herbeux aux notes résineuses ainsi qu’un léger goût d’alcool réchauffant. Post-goût long, moyennement amer de rôti, moyen de café et de houblon herbeux, léger de chocolat noir et d’alcool.
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Pours a deep burnt umber color with a mocha colored finger of foam. The nose is big slightly burnt chocolate brownie, gooey cocoa, dark plum, blackstrap molasses and a touch of anise. The palate is spot on with the nose... big chocolate roasted, brown sugar, deep dark fruit, coffee bitterness, rich chewy mouthfeel, thick viscous with flavors rolling into a smooth rich finish.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Extremly smoked. Pitch black, tiny white ring clinging to the glass. The taste is extremely smoked and sweet. Medium heavy. All over very good!
4.8 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
beautiful appearance of dark brown colour and huge, very long lasting dense light brown head;aroma of milk chocolate, raisin, roasted malts and sugar, coffee and some spicy alcoholic notes; taste is - surprisingly - not as bitter as expected, great harmony of chocolate, malty sweetness, roasted brown sugar, raisin, dried fruits, hoppy bitterness and alcoholic warmth; perfect stout
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