4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Jet black pour with no head. Aroma is very much like red wine. Slight alcohol burn at the end. Taste is very sweet and sugary. Huge raisin notes. Mouth is massive and chewy. Reminds me of port. I’m surprised how easy this was to drink given the 18% ABV. Well done!
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
355 ml bottle. Thanks Patrik!
Rated on 20110122.
Pours pitch black color with small head. Aroma of vanilla, chocolate, roasted malts and coffee notes. Flavor of caramel, roasted malts, chocolate, vanilla and oat. Delicious.
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4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Pours with a wonderful malty, fruity, maybe slightly floral aroma--really nice. Taste is complex roasted grain, chocolate, raisin, and alcohol. It works really well. Very full bodied and stays nicely on the palate. Only flaw in taste is a slight lingering sour flavor on the back of the tongue, but still, this is a good stout and with the high ABV worth putting several away to age long term.
4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Black body, light brown head. Arom is deep and rich with chocolate, port wine and dark fruits. Roasted and complex sugary malt background. Much coffee. Flavour adds sweetness enought to balance huge amount of alcohol, much like port wine in the taste too. Thick and nice balamce.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle; black beer with small brown head; aroma-raisin, coffee, some chocolate, plum, spice, whysky; taste- very sweet, medium bitterness, full body, sticky, average carbonation, long finish. Reminiscent of port wine with an astringent feel. Fantastic drink. Is this really beer?
4.8 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Deep dark and viscuous. The nose shows a bit of booze along with chocolate and dark fruit. No two sips have been the same. Exotic chocolate, mole sauce, port character and so much more. Rich, deep and nearly perfect.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Poured from a 12oz bottle to snifter at cellar temp... Pours pitch freakin’ black. Slight ruby edge if you really search for it. A surprising full finger of tannish brown head that fades quickly. There’s a bit of booze on the nose if you could believe that. Besides that, though, I get lots of wonderful little nuances - gingerbread, cocoa, cinnamon, licorice, raisin, it’s actually more pleasant than pungent. What a well executed beer this is. Honestly, the booze really does not dominate the tongue. There’s all kinds of fizzy and sweet gingerbread/licorice bits that start things off. The different flavors come in waves only to be snuffed out by the alcohol. It’s not a boozy burn though at all - it’s warming and subdued. Bravo. What a nice beer. 18% ABV and it’s tasty as it is, hot off the press.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
11/07/09 bottle to a snifter.Chocolate black pour,aroma of sweet vanilla,some mild earthy breadiness almost a distinct grain like german maybe,cherrys or other dark fruit.
Rich smooth taste lots of carmel malt,cherry figs dark fruit,toffee vanilla brown sugar,mild alcohol taste but boozy, with tones of a stout but overtakin by a candied malt bready sweetness.Alcohol burns my nose.Mild bitternes maybe herbal very slight citrus.Not much of any roastiness seems more bready with a slight dark note mostly malty barleywine with complex flavors but not very stoutish. Very candy malty.With a very slight roast dryness at the end and a mild smooth bittering.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Courtesy ratebeef. Pours black, hints of red. Smells like alcohol and a little bit of chocolate. Thick and heavy mouthfeel. Tastes like alcohol, dark chocolate, and some dark fruit. Perhaps this beer just needs aging, but the heat seems excessive. An interesting experiment and a solid dessert beer, but pretty much unpalatably alcoholic for normal beer consumption.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Tap at the ColLAboration Winterfest 2012. It pours jet black, with a big tan head. The nose is roasted malt, caramel, tobacco, dark chocolate, wood, tire and salted liquorice. The taste is roasted malt, varnish, alcohol warmth, raisin, blueberry, fig, tire, dark chocolate, touch of meat, liquorice and rich-roast coffee, with a long, dry, warming finish. Big!! Full body and moderate carbonation. Good, but damn boozy.
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