3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20Bottle from City Beer. Pours dark brown with a modest tan head and a treacle aroma. There is a rich dark chocolate flavor that sticks to the palate a bit of coffee and a slightly bitter finish. A nice brew.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Black with a very thin tan fizzy head. Sweet milk chocolate, sugar, and roasted grain aroma and taste with subtle drip coffee notes. Somewhat chewy full bodied palate.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle shared by Marcus. Color is black with brownish head. Taste is a nice balance of chocolate and some coffee. This beer has a great balance.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
This is a beautifully balanced, heavy-duty IS. I’d never heard of it and took a gamble at BevMo and wow, was I pleasantly surprised. It’s got a strong malty, coffee and vague dark chocolatey flavor. One of my favorites up there with Old Viscosity, Green Flash Double Stout and Oskar Blues Ten Fidy.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle from BevMo: Poured a dark black used motor oil color with a topping of tanned colored foam head. Aroma is full of roasted black malts that hint towards coffee bean and dark chocolate. The flavor is rich and robust with a deep profile of dark chocolate along with a combination of roasted coffee bean that comes together well making this a heavy and note worthy impy stout. Finish has a suggestion of milk/lactose that leaves behind a sticky and sweet resin around my lips.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
66 cl bottle. No BBE info, rated on 04.09.2012
Aroma has lots of cocoa, hints of soy sauce and salty licorice. Flavour has rather salty licorice, coffee and some soy sauce. Some cocoa at the end of the glass. Too salty.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
65 cl bottle @ TimoA.
Pours pitch black color with a small red tint on the sides, small beige head. Aroma of caramel, coffee, mild dark fruits, mild hops, some dark chocolate, dark toasted malts, vanilla and some toffee notes. Flavor of salty liquorice, dark toasted malts, chocolate, coffee notes, vanilla and cocoa powder. Very dry chocolaty palate, dry finish. Very good.
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3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
650 ml bottle. Thanks olio.
Pours a black colour with a foamy beigeish head. Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate, grains and some sweetish notes. Flavour of roasted malts, salty licorice, dark chocolate, coffee and sweetish English toffee. Full bodied, oily and dry mouthfeel and a long, salty licorice finish with strong roastiness. Really good and smooth.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
22 oz. bottle from BevMo (Mission Valley, SD) - Pours a dark brown color with a one and a half finger thick tan head. Light lacing. Aroma is coffee, roasted malt, chocolate, and light molasses. Flavor is pretty much the same. Finish is fairly dry, light bitterness, and smooth. Medium to full body. This beer was a little better than I expected. A good, easy drinking IS.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Deep black color with tan sheen. Nice dry chocolate, leather, licorice, deep roast, ashy aromas. Smooth medium body. Dry chocolate, semi-sweet chocolate flavors with ash tray, rich dark coffee, deep roast malt-nice bittersweet finish--a sugared up shot of espresso.
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