Nectar Ales Black Xantus

Brewed by Firestone Walker Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial Stout
Paso Robles, California USA

Serve in Snifter

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Black, tan head. Nose is coffee, bourbon, chocolate, peanuts, molasses. Taste is dark chocolate, coffee, some wood.

tulip. dark brown tall head that dies quick, with really black body. Smell is roasted malt, molasses, and signs of vanilla. Taste is heavy roasted coffee beans, and a heavy mixed dose of chocolate and vanilla. Heavy and solid texture leading to a dry chocolate finish.

Dark brown, almost opaque with good head and decent lacing. Booziness and chocolate in aroma with slight coffee. Big chocolate taste with slight booze and cocoa in finish with little coffee. Sweet but not too much. Moderate-full mouthfeel and somewhat sticky. Not bad. Would be good with chocolate. Might buy again. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Pours a dark brown to block with some light coming through. Light tan head. Strong smell of choclate with alcohol on top. Taste is really choclately with some bittersweetness and booze. Mouthfeel is slick and syrupy. Don't like very much. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Dark brown/black color; Medium to heavy slightly creamy body; Aroma of toasted sweet malt, vanilla, dark chocolate, and some licorice; Flavor of roasted sweet malt, coffee, caramel, dark chocolate, licorice, and some bourbon; Warm finish; Nicely balanced; Overall, quite sweet - but tasty.

Pours black with a tan head. Very little head in a snifter. Superb aromas of currant, roasted coffee and chocolate. Smooth, balanced palate with no alcohol taste, despite the barrel-aging. Great flavor and one of the smoothest barrel-aged stouts I’ve had.

Roasty nose jumps out at you with caramel galore. Taste follows the same path in a marvelous blend of flavors. Smooth and creamy flavor profile aligns with the body. Subdued booze character. One of the best off-the-shelf imperial stouts, period.

The pour is coal black with a moderate, tan, foamy heads which settles to a very thin layer and leaves tight lace rings. The nose is great with a very prominent Oreo presence, subtle espresso roast, light fudge, faint graham cracker, toasty oak, some vinous complexity, a slight herbal note, and caramel. Still nice in the flavor with Oreo and fudge, some herbal intertwined, light bourbon spice, nice vanilla oak, a slight tannic roundness, espresso sweetness, light cinnamon and caramel. The palate is perfect with a coating, velvety, chewy, full, and soft to lively palate. The finish is very long with rich fudge, sweet espresso, some cinnamon and toasty notes, and herbal lingering on the tongue. I only found out this was a FW beer after I bought it and was ecstatic. The barrel aging was incredible and the coffee addition was very complementary to the beer. A lot like an IS from Epic and the Oreo notes were there, something original to the style. Great beer again from FW. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottle shared by a friend. Pours darkest brown with a medium tan head. Aroma of malt, coffee, chocolate and licorice. Boozy chocolate flavor with a roasty coffee finish.

Bottle from dougefreeze. Thanks! Pours a pitch tar black like a liquid black dildo slithering out from the holiest of holies. Strong, in your face aromas of bourbon, booze, barrel. Taste is similar - deep black thickness, bourbon, charred oak, demonic spirits. It’s as if your limbs were slowly processed through Satans own coffee grinder, then aged in used bourbon barrels and forced upon you to drink. It’s like that. You are drinking yourself, you dark, twisted soul. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.