UPDATED: MAY 27, 2022 330ml bottle @ the office. Pours an opaque dark brown colour with a thin tan head. Nose is molasses, some liquorice, cognac notes, dark malts, and some cardboard. Flavour is rich, dark chocolate, wood, cognac, and light molasses.Thin bodied, mild carbonation, and a moderate sweetness with a pronounced boozy cognac quality. It's held up well, despite the chunky bits at the bottom.

UPDATED: DEC 7, 2019 Bottle.Black colour with small beige head aroma is sweet with hint of tobacco and caramel feels a bit dusty but ok for a beer from 2011.

UPDATED: APR 9, 2019 Bottle pours out black topped with a ring of tan head. Nose is nice big roast malts ash chocolate vanilla coconut wood booze. Taste is more of the nice sweet chocolate ash vanilla coconut fudge black licorice and some barrel booze.

UPDATED: JAN 25, 2019 2009 bottle. Bottle from...🤔...I think Beer Merchants. Black pour, no head. Aromas of bourbon, toffee,liquorice, cloves, prunes, blackberry jam, chocolate. Flavours of toffee, treacle, coffee,bourbon, smoke. Superb.

UPDATED: JAN 1, 2019 Bottle shared with Pilsnertest at New Years. Pours almost black with beige head. Rich, velvety chocolate, roast, lingering liquorice. Long, oaky candied sugar and vanilla finish. A little warming. Excellent.

UPDATED: MAY 27, 2022 Dark brown, a few bubbles. The aroma is a bit boozy, some of that cognac. Relatively flat, with a smooth and sweet fruity character. Gentle, refined. 7 4 8 4 16 = 3.9 2018 rate: Dark brown, no head. Aged all right, light soy sauce, mellow, touch of chocolate, with a hint of coffee. Ok this is nice...seems to have mellowed out from prior rates. 7 3 8 4 16 = 3.8

Bottle nr. 306. Frothy off-white fair mostly deminishing head. Black colour. Heavy malty and moderate hoppy aroma. Heavy bitter flavor. Strong candis and chocolate notes. long complex wonderful finish. Fantastic creamy palate.

Bottle, by way of a trade with Scopey, ages ago. Cheers Paul. Shared at Cloudwater. Almost black. Film and a few bubbles of tan head. Nose has the booze soaked chips by the bucket. Dark roast malts. Some soy. Some gravy granules. Taste is sweet and vinous. Trace of roast bitterness. Bit of a thin mouthfeel. Some boozy harshness. Sticky finish. Ok. Not getting the top 50 impy thing, to be honest.

I consumed a whole 75cl bottle of this at a halloween party in the Netherlands a few years back. The pour was black with a creamy tan head. Aromas of plums and dark cherries with some oak and vanilla. Super complex and extraordinarily tasty.

Bottle #1476, many thanks anstei & Koelschtrinker! Black color with beige head. Aroma is intense chocolate, coconut, a touch ethereal, maybe from the cognac. Taste is chocolate, toasted coconut, some chili heat in the back (but where does it come from? it's not boozy), not oxidized at all. Creamy mouthfeel with low carbonation. A masterpiece!