RCL (973), Boston, Massachusetts, USA Jul 27, 2007 Looks like espresso and smells like a good cappuccino. Perfectly balanced and rich.
mwelsh13 (90), Maryland, USA Jul 25, 2008 Deep black opaque color with a light brown head that lasts. Espresso, tobacco and roast aromas. Great flavor! Coffee, caramel, some butter, and tobacco in the taste. Nice aftertaste. Slight alcohol in the finish. punkrkr27 (323), Clawson, Michigan, USA Jul 20, 2008 Jet black pour with a gigantic rocky tan head. Aroma of butterscotch, coffee, caramel, tart ripe fruit, brandy, and Mexican chocolate. The flavor has lots of bitter dark chocolate with oak, cherry, tobacco, and black coffee. Full oily body with moderate carbonation. Marc (468), Yokosuka, Japan Jul 20, 2008 Deep coffee, molasses, cherries and leather in the nose. Dark brown verging on black with a tan oily head. Fat hops and burnt sugars. more molasses, coffee beans, leather, tobacco, salt, . Finishes with fresh herbal noble hop bitterness (halletaure?) coffee, and vegital hop flower. Really shines after it warms. robforbes (641), Bremerton, Washington, USA Jul 19, 2008 pour is jet black with a large brown head, very nice lacing.
smell of cocoa, roasted espresso, touch of vanilla bean.
taste is backers chocolate, coffee, some sour malt, a roastiness, ends dry with some bitterness to it, as it warms becomes more milky. kmeves (981), Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, USA Jul 18, 2008 Pours a oil dark black with a big brown head. Aroma is moderately sweet, coffee, chocolate and roasted malt. Flavor is coffee, oatmeal and dark chocolate. Medium body, creamy texture. Finish is long and bitter chocolate.
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