4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle from kbudd19, thanks Kevin!! Aroma has notes of sweet roasted malts, alcohol, coffee, chocolate, and sweet dark fruits. Intense aroma. Black hue with a medium tan head that mostly diminished and left decent lace. Flavor is very very sweet and very bitter. Palate is very full bodied and oily soft with a long cloying finish. Overall a very decadent brew. Great appearance for the ABV and a good flavor. Loved it.
3.3 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Very strong, but interesting, could be a new breed of "desert beer". Full body, very aromatic.
---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Had this on several occasions, always in bottle 375ml Pours pitch black with nice steady creamy dark beige head. Quite overwhelming aroma of chocolate, some coffee, caramel, roasted malts and oats. Huge body with lots of sweetness balanced by roasty notes, quite bitter end, low carbonation. Taste is toffee, sugar syrup. Bit boozy, but less than whiksky version.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
1st edition bottle...Pours pitch black with ruby hues...no head...very heavy looking...like oil. Aroma is boozy with layers of port wine, fig, and smoky/ashiness. Flavor has lots of dark fruit...very port like...with notes of dark chocolate and faint smoke. Mouthfeel is medium and mostly flat but since it drinks like a port it works...finish is dark chocolate and dark fruit...very warming and lingering. ABV is hidden fairly well.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Clear deep deep brown almost black with medium brown head. Lacing
Aroma.. heavy roasted malts, chocolate, licorice, decent hops
Sweet with quite intense bitterness, long warming finish. Bit sticky
Very deep enjoyable brew. Enjoyed every sip
3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
2012 bottle, pours pitch black with thin tan head. Not sure about the smell this one smells off and has me wondering if I have a bad bottle...well here we go, I take back everything I just said..not infected but holy schnikes it’s strong as hell not sure if age would help this sucker but the booze is really just too much for me. Still good but how the shit I am going to finish this bottle...a sipper
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
375ml bottle, quite possibly a 2007 bottling.
Pours pitch black, with almost no head.
Compact, complex aroma, soy sauce, dark chocolate, tar, asphalt, tobacco.
Sweet, full bodied, mid to high bitterness, almost no CO2 at all.
Thick, almost cloying taste, soy sauce, chocolate, ground coffee, earth, asphalt, ashes, raisins, figs.
Quite complex, possibly a bit old? Finishes a bit rough and harsh. Impressive, but a bit disappointing. (2013-05-03)
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle picked up at Consumers Beverages Niagara Falls New York. Pours an absolute motor oil jet black, massive dark tan active head. Fair amount of lace to spite the Abv. Nose was initially raisins, but when it warms up the malt finally comes through, sweet, coffee, a touch of chocolate, boozy. Tastes strong bitter and like coffee grounds, the darkest of chocolate. Best as an apertif.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle as shown. Pours a very dark brown with paperthin tan head that diminishes to nothing. The aroma is a strong smoke, roasted malt, and chocolate. Thick mouthfeel with a roast and smoke flavor and strong booze in the finish. Good.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
On tap at DLD 2013. Dark brown color, not totally opaque. Good thin brown head. Solid lace. Impressive appearance for the huge alcohol. Good coffee nose, moderate roast. Alcohol is not too hot at all, drinks way smoother than World Wide Stout, for example. Good chewiness. Light carbonation. Minimal stickiness. Huge bitter roast, love that. Some soy. Super
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