Bottle shared thanks to sjogro. Pitch black with light brown head that leaves a nice ring. The nose on this is amazing, massive fudge, chocolate chip cookies, marshmallow, pecan pie. While sipping there’s a lot of roasted notes, soft salty peat, old wood, day old coffee. Taste is quite sweet, medium bitter and light salty. Full bodied with soft carbonation and a bit slick oily feel. Pretty damn good, just don’t really know what the salt is doing here.

Tap@Banksia, Copenhagen (CBC/CPH Beer Week) - pours black with a tanned brown head. Sweet and dark roasted malty aroma and taste, with big chocolate prominence, wooden notes, caramel, rich peanut notes, lovely marshmallow vanilla nuance throughout, rich, opulent and decadent. Outstanding.

Swiatopogladu nie zmienilo. Ale dupe urwalo. Kapinka za duzo alko, poza tym pierdoletem - orgazm. Zasluzony hype

Imported from my RateBeer account as Omnipollo Noa Pecan Mud Cake - Double Barrel (by Omnipollo):
Aroma: 10/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 18/20, MyTotalScore: 4.5/5

10/VI/16 - 1L growler from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte) @ Klaas' Totem Brewery Unofficial Inauguration BBQ Tasting - BB: n/a (2016-644) Thanks to Erwin for sharing the bottle!

Pitch black beer, beige to brown head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very sweet, lots of chocolate, peanut butter, cocoa powder, bit spicy, caramel. MF: soft carbon, full body. Taste: sweet start, pretty sugary, chocolate, peanut butter, spicy touch, some dried fruits. Aftertaste: soft roast, lots and lots of chocolate, cocoa powder, bitter hops, peanut butter. What a beer.

0.33l bottle. Pitch black body with a brown head. Huge vanilla notes in the aroma with notes of marzipan, brandy, oak, chocolate, caramel and coffee. Taste of vanilla, marzipan, coffee, chocolate, caramel and some booze. Very sweet, but also super complex. Awesome beer.

Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; dark brown pour with a thin tan head, aroma has toasted marshmallow and peanut action, taste has sweet chocolate, nutty action, some vanilla, charred malts, exciting stuff.

I’ve seen this smiley face pass by on Facebook and other media many times recently and I already suspected this is more serious a beer than it looks - very curious about this, also seen its very high score here. Thick and creamy, lightly lacing, irregular but very dense, deep brownish beige head over an opaque ink black beer, already showing its viscosity upon pouring. The bouquet is strong, perfumey and nothing less than divine: finest quality Belgian chocolates, milk chocolate or even Mars bars, hot chocolate milk, espresso beans, cappuccino, cognac, lush vanilla tannins, moist oak wood, walnut (or I suppose its close relative pecan nut, seen the name), brownies, hints of old nut shells gathered from a dry forest floor, toasted brown bread, pipe tobacco, candied cherry, dried fig, single malt whisky with even a very, very subtle peated note, some cured meat but not nearly as dominant as in many other imperial stouts these days, brown sugar melting on hot pancakes, raisins, vague liquorish, vague bitter herbs somewhere - I could smell this aroma for hours on end. In the mouth, this magnificent thing of sheer beauty opens with concentrated candied ’praline’-like sweetness but not exaggeratedly so, not becoming cloying anywhere and balanced with a deep, underlying, very basic but effective sourishness as well as surrounding meaty umami accents. Carbo is evidently soft and fit for the style, mouthfeel is thick, viscous and heavy on the tongue with the consistency of chocolate milk, or even thicker. A world of beautiful dark malts opens in the middle, deeply chocolatey, caramelly, nutty, toasty and eventually roasted and even black coffeeish, all blending into one deliciously bittersweet unity. Something iron-like lies on top of this massive pile of malts but does not disturb at all - if anything, it only adds another detail to the overall flavor. The thick layer of bittersweet malts slides down heavily upon swallowing, and as expected, the finish adds so many more beautiful things: retronasal tannins yielding lovely vanilla fragrance and ’wet wood’ aromas, spicy hops providing peppery bitterishness well in balance with the malts, cognac and whisky are both more or less distinguishable. Soft brandy-like alcohol warms the chest. Maybe not the most suitable beer for a damp hot day like today but there was no way I could have waited till next winter to sample this. And I am glad I did: this completely lives up to the hype. It combines the tradition of BA stouts with the new hype of peanut butter- and other overly creamy and sweet ’liquid candy bar stouts’ in a most beautiful way. An enduring masterpiece, top class in every perspective and among the best stouts (or even beers ’tout court’) I had the pleasure to enjoy so far. This can stand any comparison with the nobility of American BA stouts and I’ll be savoring this as slowly as possible just to prolong the pleasure. Highly recommended.