Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5

375mL bottle pours with a mahogany colored body, that doesn't look all that dark for a stout, that supports a thin tan head. The aroma offers up a bit of marshmallow and then sherry like fruitiness, blunted chocolate bar and a sense of dark roasted malts in the background. The taste is slick and sweet and rich but it never somehow gets too rich or too sweet. I get chocolate and some thin dark roasted malts floating over an oil slick of yummy reduced molasses like sugars and the Blanton's boozy spirit barrel treatment. This just integrates so well together and leaves you with a pleasing warming sensation into the belly. The spirit comes across smooth and supple and trying to be a bit candy like before the boozy heat hits and drives a flaccid wedge through the experience. Well crafted and a great sipper.