Draught at LGA. Pours a deep mocha tinged brown. Small head. Thick. Strong caramel and chocolate aroma. Tastes like chocolate and salt. Slight roast and mild hops. Alcohol burn.

Bottle pour (BB 10/13/21; 8.6%) from Total Wine & More, Burlington. It's a clear, dark amber with light sparkle, 1/2-finger width beige tight foam head with poor retention and spotty lacing. Aroma is strong caramel. Taste follows aroma with mild salt; slight booze. Mouthfeel is light-to-medium bodied with smooth texture, soft-to-average carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, they nail the caramel but there's not much else to this. Pleasant enough. Definitely not a stout.

Deep dark brown coloured body with a thinnish, fast-dying tan head that starts at just over a centimetre and ends with nothing, just a few seconds later. Aroma of deep and chocolate and coffee with some caramelised sugars, a heavy dose of toffee and pure caster sugar, with nuts, earth and peanut butter on the finish. Medium to Full-bodied; Strong rich chocolate and coffee flavour at first with tons of nuts and alcohol noticeable along with a big sweetness from the caramelised sugars and grain and ending with a deep bitterness from the nuts and especially the alcohol punch. Aftertaste is pungent and potent with a lot of roasted malt, caramelised sugars, coffee, lactose, earth, toffee and a good dose of cherries noticeable on the end, all with tons of vanilla and a dose of bourbon on the very end. Overall, a pungent, but relatively easy-going beer, especially after the time in the bottle, a very sweet and pungent beer that shows well. I sampled this 65cL bottle purchased from Costco in Pentagon City (Arlington), Virginia on 16-October-2017 for US$7,69, when my daughter turned five, sampled at my mom's house in Manassas, Virginia on 19-January-2019.

Bottle sample at a tasting at Max's place. Thanks Stas. Black. Chocolate, roast, caramel, sweet, somewhat sugary, some salt, bitter finish, full-bodied. Really good.

12 ounce bottle. Opaque black color. Small creamy tan head. Rich roasted malt nose has notes of sweet caramel. Thick oily mouthfeel. Big roasted malt flavor. Dark caramel notes throughout. Sticky, resiny notes in finish. Like a caramel macchiato with a double shot of espresso. Warming alcohol as well.