3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
33 cl. bottle poured in to a snifter. Pitch black with a huge, tanned head. Roasted aroma with rich malts, chocolate, vanilla, coffee and licorice. Smoked malts and peat. An yeasty-fruity note. Taste is sweet. Full body, thick feel, soft carbonation. Finishes dry with peat, smoked notes and rich chocolate. Rich and satisfying.
3.9 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Aroma of toffee. Taste is very smokey. Coffee and sugar. Huge mouth that was pretty slick and oily. This is a very tasty beer.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pitch black color, brown head, some lace. Peat, tobacco, ash and tar in the big nose. Very soft and rounded palate. Tar, tobacco, peat in the flavor, I usually do not like beer with lots of tobacco, but this is quite drinkable. In the finish some sweeter notes. Long smokey aftertaste with alcoholic punch. Nice.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
October 31, 2012 bottle from AV3. Black pour with big head that lasted and spotty lacing. Aroma was roasted malt, peat, smoky and chocolate. Taste was dominated by the peat, had some roast and ghe finish was dry and alcohol. Medium bodied and carbonated. Bottled 12/5/11.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
33cl. Bottle.
Poors black, with beige head.
Aroma chocolate, coffee, alcohol, smokey/roasted malts, licorice.
Taste coffee smokey bitter, some choco sweet, warming alcohol, well ballanced.
Mouth-feel oily.
I actually like the smoke in this one :).
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: FEB 22, 2013 Bottled 7/12/2011. Nose of chocolate and coffee, in the aroma more of the same with bit of smokiness and apple and raspberry fruitiness, also some alcohol burn. Very fizzy carbonation which I like in a stout, bitter finish, nice
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours black with tan head and head seems to stay around. Aroma is chocolate, coffee, and a Smokey roasted. Taste is a strong alcohol with a Smokey chocolate following. Great sipping imperial stout.
3.9 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at bar. Black color, brown head. Roasty taste with much liquorice, chocolate, coffee, smoke and some oak. Burnt finish with coffee. Excellent imperial stout.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Pours opaque black with a medium creamy brown head that slowly dissipates leaving nice lacing. Aroma is smoke, peat, whiskey, dark roasted malts, coffee, cigarettes. Anise becomes more apparent on the nose as it breathes. Flavor is about the same, very light sweetness, medium smokiness, some smokey astringence as well. Light bitter coffee finish with notes of anise coming through, but fortunately not too strong. Medium body. Not a huge fan of the anise here, but otherwise a nice beer.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Black color with small head. Aroma of peated malt, coffee, smoke, woody, roasty. Taste is bitter like coffee, light sweet, really good balance. Medium body, oily to creamy texture, average carbonation. Nice stout but not so imperial.
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