Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle from the brewery. One of the darkest, thickest beers I've ever had.. Jet. Black, motor oil, with a medium dark brown head. Dark soy, loads of spices, cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, and all spice. Earthy, sticky sweet rhum barrel, vanilla, black strap molasses, charred coffee. Thick, oily, luscious mouth feel, with a super soft carb. Medium bitterness, sticky, sweet, so complex, incredible.

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

On tap at the brewpub on a snifter. Jet black pour, with a big, full mocha head. The aroma is a boat load of roasted malts, soy, charred malts, burnt coffee, dark ripe fruit, and some woody, vanilla sweetness. The aroma is intoxicating and quite complex. As it warms the fruity sweetness of the rum comes through. The body is thick and luscious, with a soft carb. The finish is velevet on my tongue. Super satisfying, but still quite bitter. Huge roasty notes, sweet wood, vanilla, a slight herbal notes that fades quickly to a snappy pine resin hoppiness, then a crescendo overly ripe, overly sweet fruit, and slme soy. Wow, what a masterpiece,

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle 500ml @ yngwie. Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, allspice, alcohol, oak and spices. Taste is heavy sweet and light to medium bitter with a long warm, chocolate, oak, spiced and roasted finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle, 50cl. A black one, with a small tan head. The aroma has lots of spices, nutmeg, allspice, ginger and cardamom, too much I think, with dark chocolate, coffee, toffee and some dark dried fruit. It's full-bodied and warming, nicely carbonated, with a good dash of sweetness. Spiced flavor with dark chocolate, coffee, booze, oak and some sweetness. Brown sugar, toffee. Cardamom, cloves, allspice, ginger. Lasting finish. Too spiced this one, else really nice. 241019

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Aus der Fass im Muted Horn im Sommer 2023 getrunken. Dieses kräftige, vollmundige Stout zeigt deutlich Gewürzwinflüsse und das Rum BA. Ein tolles Stout!

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Vom Fass im Muted Hord 2022-12 getrunken. Dieses kräftige, vollmundige Stout zeigt deutlich Gewürzwinflüsse und das Rum BA. Ein tolles Stout!

skeleton key 2017 at BXLbeerfest 2022

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Rum barrel aged Canadian stout with seven spices; sampled at BXL Beerfest. Yellowish mocha-beige, moussy, stable head, ink black robe. Intensely spiced aroma, clove, cinnamon, anise and allspice upfront, far less obvious but still noticeable cardamom, nutmeg, ginger and vanilla, very clear rum as well, unsugared black chocolate, burnt toast, wet wood, black coffee, dried prunes, paraffin, ‘Borstbollen’ and Christmas cake. Dense, dryish onset, hints of dried fig and dried blueberry, lively carbonated for style with full, oily body; rich smooth maltiness shifting between sweet toffee and bitter black chocolate and roasted coffee bitterness, under an enormous amount of ethereal, warming and inevitably astringent ‘wintery’ spiciness, further enhanced by the spicy character of the rum, which also adds a warming afterglow. Again it is the clove, allspice, cinnamon and anise which are very prominent; nutmeg, cardamom and ginger are less clearly distinguishable and vanilla is all but lost in this spicy violence. Technically a perfectly fine barrel aged stout, ruined by a complete and near-fatal overdose of spices, not my personal cup of tea but some will certainly enjoy this.