Pours black into a snifter. Mocha head with excellent retention recedes to hug rim. Dark caramel, butterscotch and vanilla aromas. Sweet and salty butterscotch and caramel upfront turning to warm vanilla and mild chocolate in the lasting finish. Sweet, but well done.

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a brownish-black color with a large foamy brown head that lingered and left decent lacing. The aroma was cocoa, caramel and salt. The flavor was sweet and toasty with a strong caramel presence and moderate salt and chocolate notes. Long finish. Moderately full bodied and creamy. Outstanding!

22 ounce bottle into snifter, bottled on 5/20/2016. Pours opaque dark brown/black color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy tan head with good retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big caramel, toffee, brown sugar, milk/dark chocolate, vanilla, cream, toasted dark bread, light cocoa/coffee, herbal, and roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, caramel, and light earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big caramel, toffee, brown sugar, milk/dark chocolate, vanilla, cream, toasted dark bread, light cocoa/coffee, herbal, light salt, and roast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/spicy hop and roast/light charred bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, toffee, brown sugar, milk/dark chocolate, vanilla, cream, toasted dark bread, herbal, light salt, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Damn nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, caramel/salt, and light earthy hop flavors; with a great bitterness/sweetness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light dryness from hop/roast bitterness, lightly increasing through the glass. Light-medium carbonation and fairly full bodied; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/slick, and fairly sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is fairly well hidden with a small warmth lingering after the finish. Overall this is an excellent imperial sweet stout. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, caramel/salt, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to sip on for the big ABV. Very similar to Creme Brulee on flavor and sweetness; needs a bit more age to smooth out the bittering hop quality, to give it the true dessert beer feel. A very enjoyable offering as it is now, though.

Draft pour at SAVOR 2016. Poured a near pitch black color. Even with it being incredibly cold, this beer was bursting with a ton of flavor. Smell is super strong caramel notes, chocolate. Flavor was like drinking liquid salted caramel. Also diabetes.

2 oz draft pour at SAVOR 2016’s Saturday session. Black with tan head. Aromas of butterscotch, creme brulee, burnt sugar. Tastes of caramel, vanilla, cream, butterscotch, chocolate. Medium-full body with a dry finish. Rich and tasty.