4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Roasty, full bodied... lovely nearly-opaque blackness with a touch of red at the edges. Bitterness and coffee notes in the taste. From a bottle in Ontario, "best before December 2011".
According to the ingredients list, there’s no water. No wonder it’s so intense.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Pours a dark near black brown with dark tan head. Roasted malt, alcohol, and dark sugar aroma. Flavor is rich with dark chocolate and roasted malts followed by a bit of bitterness on the finish. Tasty!
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
[Can] Pours a jet black color with a quickly receding brown head. Rich aroma of dark malts, mild hops and light amounts of alcohol. The taste is of cocoa, molasses, faint vanilla, anise, dry roasted malts and noiceable alcohol. Very nice mouthfeel and creamy, lactic finish. Dry malts linger on the tongue. A very nice beer.
4.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle pour into glass. Pours a nice brown, thick head, small bubbles not quite as creamy as Dry Stouts. Very dark brown/black body. Head lasts several minutes.
Smell: not much smell
Taste: Malty, coffee, chocolate, possibly what a mocha porter should taste like. 8% abv and you do not taste it! Very smooth.
Mouthfeel: Watery viscosity, quite carbonated
Overall: Fantastic. Could easily put several back (though it’s 8%abv). Excellent, Not as good as Great Lakes’ Porter, but a good alternative.
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours black with a milk chocolate brown head. Aroma is subtle: roasted chocolatey and alcoholic rum. Taste is a hit of dark chocolate, mocha coffee and some mingling hop bitterness and roasted grain bitterness on the finish. Bitterness really lasts. Good stout although I prefer a smoother balance of bitterness.
4.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Appearance: beautiful--coffee brown with a thick, creamy tan head that lingers before shrinking to a thick collar; tons of lacing. Aroma: chocolate, mocha, coffee, clotted cream, with notes of oak and vanilla, followed by a hint of boozy licorice. Taste: creamy, chocolatey…delicious, with notes of mocha, cream, vanilla, some wood and dust, then a little port. Finish: smooth, very mellow, gentle and dry, with the dusty, boozy notes gaining a little. <Notes: Wonderful stout. Palate was delightfully soft and creamy, and the flavors were perfect exemplars of the style. The finish had just a TAD too much dust, but not so much to really change my enjoyment in any way. This was great. Bottle said 8.5% ABV, not 8%.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma is sweet and malty. Taste has the expected chocolate and coffee notes, but is also very sweet, with strong caramel flavour. Nice for sipping slowly.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
The beer is not very black, almost brown especially in the light with a unique super light tan head. There is good retention and lacing.
The aroma is very light all you get is a brief whisp of alcohol and light hops.
the taste is super light as well that is a sweet hoppiness that feels like water making it ok to drink but overall nothing very special or exciting. Damn you Sri Lanka.
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