UPDATED: AUG 5, 2021 2020 bottle. Black with a dense light tan head that gradually fades to a cm. Coiled aroma with roast, singed caramel, mocha, berries. Creamy, only fullish bodied for 12% ABV. Sweet with chocolate and berries but that covers a bitter core of coffee, hard roast, spices and hops. That bitterness fades gradually to a point. Perhaps unusually for a hoppy US stout the hop aromatics are not juxtaposed with the rest of the beer. Delicious and harmonious but not very deep.

UPDATED: JUL 24, 2021 2016 Bottle. The aroma is malts, licorice, some coffee and slight chocolate. Pours dark brown with big creamy dark tan head mostly lasting and excellent lacing. The taste is a mild bitter, long lasting. The body is full, the carbonation average, the texture creamy and the finish long. I can see why this is rated one of the Top 50!

UPDATED: JUL 13, 2021 750ml bottle, 2018 vintage. Rich roasted malt aroma with notes of dark chocolate, coffee, cherry, raisin and toffee. Pours deep brown, almost black with a large mocha brown head that has good retention and some lacing. Starts with roasted malt, dark chocolate and toffee flavors as well as having a rich, full body and slick, viscous mouthfeel. Finishes impeccably smooth with cherry, raisin and coffee flavors. Fantastic!!

UPDATED: FEB 27, 2021 Ever have a beer step on you. This stepped on me. Black body with medium tan head. Cherry, chocolate, roast malt and coffee aroma. All over the mouth taste, fruit, coffee, chocolate. An interesting tang in the finish.

UPDATED: DEC 12, 2020 Pours black with a two finger, tan head. Aroma is cocoa, roast and hops. Taste is chocolate and brown sugar, moving to roast and building hop backbone. Finish is chocolate and hops.

UPDATED: DEC 11, 2020 Bomber thanks to Drake! Celebrating a work milestone. Pours black with a soft tan head. Smoke, chocolate, toffee, raisin, earth, wood nose. Flavor is roasted malt, chocolate, cherry, leather. Thick, a little boozy.

UPDATED: SEP 17, 2020 2009 bottle thanks to BuckeyeBoy. Still, flat black pour.Aroma is cherries, chocolate. Taste offers brown sugar notes, raisins. Sticky and sweet. And still good after 11 years.

UPDATED: SEP 16, 2020 2009 bottle thanks to BuckeyeBoy inky black pour. Lots of sweet Smith and slightly sticky toasty malts. Some molasses and hints of cocoa. Faded and mellowed but still tasty.

UPDATED: AUG 17, 2020 18-07-20 // taster at 7th anniversary of Mon Petit Cafe in Suttgart. 2017. You can taste the age a bit nonetheless stil la lovely IS: Rich and thick. Chocolate and sweet dark fruits, raisins.

Dark black color with a brown head. Booze chocolate oak aroma. Chocolate cherry sweet vanilla flavor. Medium heavy body. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone