 jjuf1853 (467), Land O Lakes, Florida, USA
Feb 26, 2008 11.2 oz bottle pours an opaque pitch black color with virtually no head whatsoever. Aroma includes dark chocolate, roasted malts, campfire wood and soy sauce. Lots of bittersweet chocolate in the flavor with some black cherry. Really enjoy the bitter finish.
probstk (1007), Nepean, Ontario, Canada
Feb 24, 2008 330 ml bottle from LCBO, served almost cold in a tulip glass. BB April 2009.
App.: Deep brown-black with a minute greyish-tan head.
Aroma: Lots of very dark aromas – molasses, burnt malt, a bit of dark chocolate or black coffee, light dark, dried fruits; there’s a faint, underlying brightness and slight sweetness, like lemons and caramels too shy to show themselves (wow, that sounds pretty stupid).
Palate: Medium body (thinner than anticipated), very soft carbonation, fairly powdery.
Flav.: A bit more restrained than the nose – there is certainly some dark dark roasted malts, some of the black coffee, but the molasses and fruity notes have vanished; there is a bit of wood, a certain brightness (more than the nose) and a citric quality; on swallowing, it is very dry dark cocoa, a touch of lemon and a little bitterness.
Seems to me that the Reserve was a bit better, more rounded due to the time in wood.
caledonian (367), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Feb 24, 2008 Opaque black, thin cream-colored head, milk chocolate and malt aroma that continues into the flavor with a mild hop bitterness.
tronraner (1906), Maryville, Tennessee, USA
Feb 22, 2008 Bottle. Pours on the black side of brown with a small tan head. The aroma is slight molasses with lots of roasted character and burnt fruitiness, maybe a little bit of chocolate, and a distant hint of tobacco. The flavor is a slight burnt acidity at first, followed by a quick burst of dark fruits and a little bit of chocolate. Then it gradually dries out, eventually coming to a fairly bitter, woody finish. Ok.
MrManning (1634), London, Ontario, Canada
Feb 21, 2008 Bottle- Pours a deep cola brown, topped with a foamy mocha cap, leaving minute lace. Nose is of wood, cherries, dark chocolate, and a musty, dank, port wine. Nice semi-sweet dark chocolate flavours here, with cherries, smoke, wood, some milk chocolate coming through in the finish with some nice round bitterness. The finish is creamy with good roast lingering.
DerWeg (748), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Feb 20, 2008 330ml bottle Poured a deep pretty chestnut with a tall whitish dense head... Low carbonation Smells like bitter chocolate and roasty grains.. Good malty body and just enough bitter hops, not overly roasty bitter finish. Dark fruit, licorice candy and pipe tobacco aromas. Like a serious porter.
mirjukka (695), LOHJA, Finland
Feb 20, 2008 bottle 330ml at OpusK blind test
color: dark, pale brown head
Scent:malts, sweet
Taste:dryish, roasted malts, some oiliness like Koff porter, spices, tiny hops
Palate:medium aftertaste
wilderthanyou (410), Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Feb 18, 2008 Pours as you would expect, as dark as motor oil, with a quickly dimishing beige head. Aroma is BIG, with lots and lots of chocolate, roasty malt, and light caramel. The flavour is tasty, a little thin, but pretty close to on par, in a way its a good thing, it raises the drinkability a bit. A bit sweet at first, with some chocolate, roasted malts, in the middle, a touch of sweetness at the end, and then a light licorice flavour in the finish. All and all a tasty brew that does pretty much all the right things, just a tad thin on flavour and a little watery on the tongue. But I will certainly still be drinking a few more of these.
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