UPDATED: NOV 6, 2023 Pours darkbrown with a light brown head. Smells like coffee, chocolate and dried fig. Taste is full, complex and thick. Taste coffee, caramel, toffee, hazelnut and a hint of smoke. Very good!

UPDATED: MAY 7, 2023 Bottle from Drankenhandel Leiden. Aroma is roasted malt with plenty of chocolate, mocha, beanie coffee, a little espresso. Flavour is moderate bittersweet, above medium body. Formidable Porter, great drinkability.

UPDATED: MAR 13, 2023 Bottle from Deconinck. Hazy black, thin, beige head. Aroma of chocolate sauce, coffee cream, mocha, prune, chestnut, vague smoked ham. Taste has sweet prune & fig in a dark-chocolatey, creamy, toasty malt body; some earthy bitter coffee and smoke on the side. Earthy hops in the dry finish with more pronounced bitter coffee grounds, tobacco & ash. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Could have been fuller for all that taste, but simply very good.

UPDATED: DEC 3, 2022 How: bottle from pint. BB: 20(?).06.25 As Porter robust porter. 7% abv. Head: light tan, two fingers. Colour: dark brown. Aroma: chocolate, coffee, campfire, dark fruits. Overall robust dark malts. Taste: thin to medium body, average carbonation, chocolate, coffee, dark bread, dark fruits, silky mouthfeel. Much softer taste than aroma suggested. Medium to long aftertaste like initial taste. 8-4-8-4-14

UPDATED: AUG 2, 2022 Classic porter. Even somewhat light bodied for the style and abv. Firmly hopped and a bit coffee spicy sharp to give it a dry sensation. Middle of norway vinomonopolet

UPDATED: JUL 17, 2022 From bottle (pkd Oct'21) in porter glass. Pours near black w/tan head, complex earthy aroma. Taste has aniseed, dark choc/mocha, fairly dry & bitter finish.

UPDATED: JUN 16, 2022 Bottle at Home 25/12/2013 Fruit hop and roast aromas. Large beige head. Dark red coloured smooth on the palate a little rich and hoppy with some alcohol present. A hint of dryness in a warming and slightly bitter chocolate and coffee roast finish.

UPDATED: APR 15, 2022 Fles 50cl thuis gedeeld. Koffie, roasted malts, redelijk koolzuur, leer, donker fruit, zuurtje, fruitig, zoettonen, caramel, licht droog, chocolade, soja. Redelijk complex. (15-4-2022).

UPDATED: APR 3, 2022 Token Porter lightness in the taste, but the palate comes home strong, so the second half is good at least like Matthew McConaughey's career.

UPDATED: JAN 16, 2022 Donkere bijna zwarte kleur met een goede kraag. Ruikt vol zacht zoetig. Smaakt vol zacht zoetig moutig.