Bottle at EBF. Black, no head. Dry, salty liquorice aroma, Porvoon Lakritsia and soy sauce. Flavor is intensive rye pudding, salty liquorice, ginger and bitter orange. Full bodied of course. Strange stuff, the closest thing to Finnish easter pudding I’ve ever had.

’08 bottle traded with BOLTZ7555. Thanks a lot. This pours so thick it hurts. Thin beige head that leaves beautiful lacing. Man. The aroma. The coffee comes and kicks you in the face so much harder than so-called "coffee" beers do. It’s like a graham cracker is in there too. Then the chocolate comes in. It’s almost like smelling a smore minus gross burnt marshmallow. Flavor is where that marshmallow comes in. It’s like drinking pure liquid marshmallow for grown-ups with coffee flavors making themselves more pronounced than not. And then it’s like drinking the bits of bitter cacao. It finishes with a slight alcohol burn, but it doesn’t really detract. The body is so thick it’s almost like drinking syrup and can almost be difficult to swallow and kind of hangs around in the back of your throat because it’s like your throat can’t actually take it. Spectacular beer.

2008 bomber-black wax. Jet black, dark tan head. Aroma is very good, but has too much caramel to really excel. It does have some very nice chocolate, alcohol, and anise underlying it though. Flavor and palate are incredible. Unbelievably thick and creamy. It coats your mouth like non-other. More so than I would normally like, but this beer is so delicious I want it to stay there forever. Sooo smooth. Tons of chocolate and coffee in the flavor with a hint of anise and an even smaller hint of currants. The finish is exceptional with lots of bitterness mixed with chocolate and coffee.

2008. Ridiculous tar black pour with a solid tan head that subsides eventually, but not too quickly. Aroma of booze, burnt malt, chocolate, chalk, plum, caramel, a hint of hop bitterness. The flavor hits pretty hard with massive chocolate and burnt malt components, molasses, booze, wood, vanilla. I’m not tasting too much coffee. Again, some mildly bitter hops in the finish, but the malt really dominates here. The mouthfeel is the real standout in my opinion - unbelievably thick and rich. Coats the mouth as it goes down. This is probably the most over-the-top brew I’ve ever tasted, and I love it. There were moments when I though that maybe it was too thick, or the flavor was too overpowering, but I can’t deny the overall greatness of this beer.

WOW! THIS IS AN AWESOME BEER. This is my 400th rating, and I wanted it to be a good one - it was! A big thank you to Adrian for opening up a bottle of this, which he drove and waited for hours to get his hands on. It is the hugest, richest, tastiest brew that I have ever had. It seems like there is a bushel of grains, a sack of hops, and a basket of fruit in every bottle. The pour is solid black with a little brown froth on top. The liquid is an emulsion with the consistency of a banana fruit shake. The taste is packed with grains, malt, smoke, and coffee. These harder flavors are matched by a rich fruitiness that tastes like cherries and plums. Incredibly rich, yet very well balanced too! The only weaknesses from my perspective were the aroma (a little dull) and the label (a little juvenile), but don’t let that stop you. This beer is a star!