Bottle from Milk and Hops, Chelsea. Pours dark brown with a small ring of head and minimal lace. Meat and coffee on the aroma, some lactose notes. Roasty, smokey, and meaty flavor. Light bitter. Medium bodied, tingly mouthfeel. A little odd, but pretty decent.

Total Wine in Fairfax: pours black with a dark beige head. Aroma is chocolate, chicory, coffee, sugar, and some light smoke. Taste is somewhat sweet. Some chocolate. Lingering chicory and stuff. Creamy body. Nice.

Bottle. Pours update black, small tan head, decent making. Aroma is roasty, coffee, smoke. Flavor is light plus sweet, light bitter, cocoa, roasted malt, coffee, earthy smoke, almost woody. Full body. Interesting.

12 ounce bottle into signature tulip glass, bottled on 11/21/2016. Pours opaque dark brown/black color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, maple, brown sugar, smoke, ham, toasted dark bread, salt, chicory, cinnamon, pepper, and nuttiness; with lighter notes of licorice, dark fruit, char, and roast/smokey earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of roast/bready malt, coffee, spices, scrapple, and maple syrup notes; with solid strength. Taste of big milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, maple, brown sugar, smoke, ham, toasted dark bread, salt, chicory, cinnamon, pepper, and nuttiness; with lighter notes of licorice, dark fruit, char, and roast/smokey earthiness. Light-moderate roast/char and herbal/spice bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, maple, brown sugar, smoke, ham, toasted dark bread, salt, chicory, cinnamon, pepper, nuttiness, and roast/smokey earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of roast/bready malt, coffee, spices, scrapple, and maple syrup flavors; with a great roasted bitter/sweet balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light dryness from roast/char bitterness, lightly increasing through the glass. Medium carbonation and medium-plus body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready, and fairly chalky/sticky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol for 7.4%. Overall this is a very nice spiced coffee stout. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of roast/bready malt, coffee, spices, scrapple, and maple syrup flavors; very smooth and easy to drink. Really well executed all around. Nicely rich and really well balanced, despite all of the different added flavorings. A very enjoyable offering.

Ok tap at mad mex. This is another version of what’s old is new again. Looks like coke. smell like coffee. tastes like coffee too but i’m glad it lacks that stupid contemporary pickled pepper taste. enjoyable for a change. easy to enjoy. not over the top in coffee effects. hides alky well, can like.

Pour is a black with a large tan head. Aroma is a nice mix of sweet malt with a nice roast and char malt. Such a nice roasted malt aroma. Flavor is a huge chared black malt with a little sweet molasses and a finish with some roasted peanuts. The last few offerings I’ve had from Dogfish head have been a bit lackluster but this beer is full of flavor

Bottle poured to pint glass. Typical brown-black stout color. Medium head that quickly faded. Strong dry coffe roastiness initially, then hints of maple syrup and bacon.

12 ounce bottle. Inky dark brown, thin tan head, decent retention. Aroma of strong coffee, roasted malts, a bit of mint and maple. The taste is strong coffee, roast, maple, cherries. Not sure what scrapple tastes like, so.... Medium bodied, lingering bitterness, dry. A bit coffee-dominated, but, solid.

Sampled on draft at Tapped this beer poured a black color with a medium sized foamy dark brown head that left good lacing. The aroma was bitter brewed coffee, wood and a touch of smoke. The flavor was smoky and sooty with sweet malts, maple, red meat, cocoa and coffee. Very long finish. Full bodied and smooth. Interesting.

The bar would only serve a half pint of this brew at a time because of the "high acohol content". 7.4%, you have to be kidding.It came to me looking great, a very dark brown, almost black, with a super, chocolate-milk colored head an inch or so high.The smell is of coffee but that is just the opening. First taste is certainly smoke and a lot of it moving on to a strong maltiness. Earthy. Perhaps a touch of chocolate. It got better the more I drank, Do not think I will be back to this one, just not a smoke fan.