7.5

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

Bottle. Pours with a pretty strong, dark hued body with a medium sized brown head. Good retention, nice lace. Head is not that menacing iodine color you get from some place like CCB or certain Mikkeller beers. Seems to be more Roasted malt than black barley. Still trying to ascertain the head color. This rant was not preconceived, but by the time I finished typing, there was some ring, and a light coating across the top as head retention. Aromas are of rich coffee, fudge, flinty minerality, and coffee. Coffee character is nice and strong. Brown sugar, nice ester, dark fruits, flan. Rich roasted malt coffee, and a nice bourbon character with vanillin, maple and light smoke. Flavors are rich, dark fruit, lightly muddled soil almost a vegital dms, chocolate, nutty and coffee. Super rich, pound cake, earthy coffee, vegital, medium roast, light bourbon but a lot of wood. Flavors feel a bit disjointed compared to the amazing aroma. Woody tannin. Biscottii and vanillin, yet something tastes a bit off. Thick body, minerals, coffee cream, medium carbonation. Warming. Interesting, as good as it sounds, but could be even better.