660mL, 5% ABV: Deep charcoal hued, at first raising a nice light brown head. It doesn’t lace and completely disappears after minutes though. It leaves us with smelling as the only option. Very light overall profile. Chocolate, roastiness on a oily olive tray. Juicy palate with grape and blackberries undertones, tobacco and coffeeish acidic and roasty flavors quickly overcome as it dries. Light bodied, fair carbonation. Leaves a synthetic roastiness feel lingering. I still don’t dig sourish stouts. A bit dull.

The Lure:<br />Sweet ground coffee beans topple roastiness and fruity esters. Soy sauce protrudes once in a while, everything is faint and tame.<br /> <br /> The Festivities:<br />A frail body manages to lend coffee beans and milky sweetness. Feeble roasty bitterness is lifted in the back, alongside mineral notes. Not bad, but not good either.<br /> <br /> Transcendence:<br />An empty room.

Roasted malts evoke coffee and cocoa-like chocolate in the biscuity aroma with mild underlying grape-like fruity esters. Opaque black body is topped by a decent, though fizzy, tan head that recedes rapidly to a thin partial cover and ring and completely shortly thereafter. Grapes are apparent in the flavour but pleasantly married to a biscuity malt character and plenty of roasted malts and powdery chocolate. Sweetness becomes cloying after a while. Medium body with shortlived carbonation that leaves the body feeling rather flat. While perhaps not great, this is at least drinkable. American pint glass. Cellar temperature. Bottle (Peluso, Jan-05).

Deep black ale with a light chocolate malt aroma. Decent chocolate malt with a rather weak body. Still , a decent porter (dont think this is a stout).

Bottle 660 ml <br /> Neat dark brown, fine creamy top. <br /> Sweet brown malts with hints of roast. Light acidic vinous nose.6+ <br /> Medium light bodied. Dry roast, burnt coffee yet all mad shallow and weakly. Coffee at edges. Clean work , a bit to much carbonation.