8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Growler share with Doug.
Both were poured into snifters, the appearance was a dark brown close to black color with a finger’s worth of off white foamy head that glistened, held for a little bit and gently fell off. Sly lace.
The aroma had a nice blend of sweet milk chocolate to clean caramel malts. Butterscotch and some sweet coffee creamer roll in to compliment nicely. Super light vanilla beans and a husky dry woodiness clings to the overall aroma.
The flavor blended the wet sweetness of the milk chocolate, caramel and butterscotch notes to the dry sweet woodiness. Vanilla beans create some smooth silky ebb and flow on my taste buds. Lenient semi-sweet dry aftertaste and finish.
The feel was medium bodied with a fair sipping quality due to the noticeable ABV. Though I was expecting that to come, I didn’t mind some boozy details to slide in on the feel of this.
Overall, nicely done imperial stout, I was afraid after reading the description above that this was going to be a cloying mess but it wasn’t. Looking forward to having this next Winter!