 patrickfannon (299), Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA
| 4.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Nov 4, 2009 Bottle. 12 oz. Pours deep, dark hazy brown with no head and no lacing. Aroma of chocolate, fig, barley, malt, yeast, and hints of coffee and pepper. Extremely full boided with a crazily warm moutfeel. Powerful finish. Very little traces of alcohol; hidden nicely beneath the complex aroma and flavor. Excellent stout from Dogfish Head.
Agaguk (119), Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
| 4.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 5/5 | 18/20 |
Nov 4, 2009 Pours a thick black body and a thick brown creamy head. Aroma: corn syrup, green herbs, rhubarb, chocolat, coffee, kalua, tiamaria. Flavor: Alcohol, light burnt malts, porto, cigar, licorice, Grand Marnier. Palate: Full body, soft carbonation, oily, creamy and an after taste of cigar.
jbender (22), Hatboro, Pennsylvania, USA
| 4.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Nov 2, 2009 12 oz bottle bottled on 11/14/08: Roasted aroma along with raisins and alcohol. Appearance is a thick black beer with a quickly disappearing head. Sweet taste with roasted coffee/chocolate malt background. Can still taste alcohol, but not all 18% of it. Warms the throat and body after a few sips. Heavy, viscous body. A great beer to sip on in the winter.
jujubeast6000 (777), Houston, Texas, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 5/5 | 15/20 |
Nov 2, 2009 Reviewed 8/10/2009 (Bottled 11/14/08):
Pours a dark dark brown colored body, not quite black. Small whitish head, diminishing. Strong sweet aroma, maybe brown sugar. Some rubbing alcohol. Syrupy aroma, some spice. Strong aroma. Carbonated taste. Sweet, like maple or something. Some roasted and chocolate flavors, but definitely more barleywinish, hot. Complex. Almost like a soy sauce smell and taste. Definitely a sipper.
dekeq (35), New Jersey, USA
| 4.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 10/10 | 5/5 | 18/20 |
Nov 2, 2009 It’s black as hell. Guinness you could at least see some tint and color when you held it up to a light. This is a black hole in a glass. It’s crazy. It also developed a very frothy off-white head but it collapsed pretty quickly. What can you expect with a beer this heavy? Smell? It smells like alcohol. Jesus H. Christ, it’s 18% alcohol. Beer isn’t supposed to be that strong...but it’s amazing. The bouquet of aromas almost reminds me of a heavy red wine. The attention to detail here is extraordinary. It tastes just like it smells: alcohol. It also has a pretty licorice taste to it and seems like it has berries in it as well. Also to note, the bitter and chocolate-y taste at the very beginning is reminiscent of dark chocolate. The texture is interesting because it is very smooth for something that is so heavy. It goes in smooth with the froth from the head, it smooths out in the middle to present all the body of the beer and then it goes down easily with a last little bite of alcohol and the overall mesh of flavors.
DeadGirl (215), West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
| 4.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 3/5 | 10/10 | 4/5 | 19/20 |
Nov 1, 2009 Pours like oil w/a creamy brown, pillowy head from the 12oz. bottle: Nose is pure alcohol, rich, dark chocolate, and bitter coffee beans. You know you’ve just walked into a place where God can’t help you right now. Full bodied flavor- it’s so complex, just three sips and I’m already buzzed. Alcohol scorches the back of the throat and I’m feeling so vulnerable right now. Flavors of chocolate, toffee, dried sugary fruits, and definitely woody (oh Palo Santo, how I miss you so!). Drinkability: Surprising smooth for the abv % it claims, however you know what you’re in for. Powerful, yet pleasant. Rebuy: All the time. BombMer. #179 on 01112009, DG.
Chapel (330), Levittown, New York, USA
| 4.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Oct 28, 2009 Part of a backlog, bottle from 2008. I’m rather surprised to see that it is 18% ABV because it is surprisingly smooth. Pours a creamy black with a light brown head. Aroma and flavor of chocolate and dark fruit. Finish was roasted evenly with some mild wooded (think mahogany) overtones. Looking forward to the 2009 version.
armando629 (968), Budapest, Hungary
| 4.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 19/20 |
Oct 20, 2009 Oh my God! What a fortune! Cheers Chimay67!!!
So i had a yellowish-green cap without any date stamps, only an exclamation mark like a dogfish head logo....
Poured black with a fine creamy beige head. Robust aroma that smells around in the room... Rich perfume of wood, tobacco, liqueric dark fruits and deep roasted grains, dark chocolate. I’ve got fuddled only by the smell of this beer...Oily body with a woody taste, fine coffee and liqueric character, tons of roasted grains and dried fruits, fine dark chocolate flavor. Strong character in the long aftertaste too with the woody and deep roasted feeling... and yes, the torpidity in my brain...Fantastic, powerful stout one!!! I am much obliged about this beer-wonder.... thanks&thanks again!!!!
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