7.8

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

0.75 l bottle from the brewery's web shop, best before December 2031. Pitch black with a thin, frothy, slowly diminishing, beige head. Sweetish-malty, quite roasty aroma of dark chocolate, coffee, caramel, roasted hazelnut and light vanilla. Rather sweet, malty, gently roasty-bitter taste of dark chocolate, hard roasted coffee, licorice, roasted hazelnut and some vanilla, followed by a long, quite roasty-bitter, slightly warming finish. Full body, smooth and slightly creamy mouthfeel, very soft carbonation. Tasty as usual, really well-executed, has nothing in common with Kees' booze bombs from the past. Still, the necessity of so much alcohol is questionable as the same result can be achieved with half of it.