JCapriotti (1378), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Jun 8, 2007 Pours a dark brown with a slight red/rust/orange hue. Thick foamy tan head. Interesting beer. Aromas of chocolate, roasted malt, fruit, alcohol, lactose. Flavor is a lot of the same... slightly strong in terms of alcohol, roasty chocolate, anise, mixed berries, blueberry, lactose with malted milk. Very interesting. Nice drink that I think will mess you up fast if you aren’t careful. Smooth creamy mouthfeel with some alcohol burn.
danielcurtis81 (122), San Diego, California, USA Oct 13, 2008 Getting my notebook online. Bottle. Pours as advertised "30 weight". Smoke flavors, some dark fruits. Lots of roasted malts. A very good beer! chicagodri (553), Chicago, Illinois, USA Oct 12, 2008 Thanks for the bottle BOLTZ7555. This was an impressive beer. Pours a cloudy dark brown with a tan head. Roasted malt, dark fruit, oak, chocolate, a little coffee, this beer has a little bit of everything and somehow combines it all together in one hell of a 10% brew. Goes down easy. Really makes me want to try the Older Viscosity...who wants to trade me? JohnnyJ (678), Reno, Nevada, USA Oct 11, 2008 This is an excellent brew. Pours a deep reddish brown with frothy light tan head. Has similarities with imp stout, barleywine, and old ales. Roasted malt, bread, milk chocolate, chestnuts, plums and hints of dark fruit, licorice, oak vanilla, and hints of cocoa and floral hops. The hops are not sharp or bitter, but instead meld nicely into the rich malt. The mouthfeel is soft and rich. Wonderfully silky. Great beer. gsteph (227), seymour, Tennessee, USA Oct 7, 2008 Old Visco. What a brew indeed! Strong resemblance in flavor and appearance to an impy stout. Not quite as thick. Super inky pour, decent sized tan head. Some, not much, lacing. Coffee, baker’s chocolate, vanilla, mascerated plums, a subtle port wine hint and charred wood on the nose. Oily body. A silky smooth montage of flavors...espresso and cream, cocoa powder, cinnamon....I’ll let it warm a bit. The warming time brings out a chocolate covered cherry finish. Not as hoppy as an impy, but it is detectable, nonetheless it is strongly overpowered by a welcomed sweetness coupled with an ashen dryness. Hell, I don’t think Starbuck’s could come up with anything this good. If you find, buy it, buy it all ! TAR (2008), Boulder Co., Colorado, USA Oct 5, 2008 Black with hues of chestnut. Tight and creamy cap of gray-tan foam. Sophisticated malt-driven aromas of chocolate wafers, malted milk balls, creamed coffee, caramelized malt, and scorched malt hulls. Light whiff of hops, red licorice, burnt toffee, plum, and raisin. Carbonation softly caresses the tongue. Bottle conditioned. Weighty layers of malt immediately unfold upon the palate as a balancing kiss of lustrous chocolate-covered plums and black cherry fruitiness shyly emerges. Sturdy, seemingly impenetrable malt body is partially lifted by a poignant bite of roasted malt hulls. Dab of coffee teases the palate as it wavers in and out of the flavorsome medley of lighter malt shades. The brightness of the dried plum and red licorice esters mirrors that of the restraint. Gooey base of melted fudge pillars the hefty maltiness while bitter notes of burnt cocoa and dark chocolate underscore the richness and echo the beautifully understated caramelized oak undertow. Alcohol is clean and virtually undetectable. Dazzling interplay between the metallic malt bite and subtle tannins which lightly tingle the palate. Despite the presence of tannins, the barrel extractives are in synch with the malt and esters. Well-developed cakey malt forms an alliance with a fudgelike tackiness before closing with a dryish cocoa, charcoal, and minty alcohol flourish. This is a finessed malt bomb. Quite exquisite.
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