7.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

12 oz can, poured black with slight ring of tan foam. Full bodied. Chocolate, vanilla and maple aroma. Overly sweet, mildly boozy chocolate taste with pecan and maple notes. Cloying finish.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle at home, 22nd November 2020. Sure I have had this before, it’s thick and black, smells nice and lots going on, caramel, chocolate, rich. Taste is intensely sweet, chocolate, rich, sickly, it’s even hurts my teeth and gums. It’s too sweet for me, as the name suggests, smells good, but overall not my thing.

8.2

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

330 ml bottle. Murky dark brown almost black with a creamy mocha colored head. Chocolate brownies, fudge, apricot brandy and apricot jam, dark chocolate, vanilla, salted caramel, some nordic liquorice. A lot of chocolaty sweetness, slightly dry. Full bodied, slick texture, soft carbonated, dry sweetish boozy finish. This is what you call a Pastry Stout, like a liquid chocolate cake.

8

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

Shared bottle at Mi2 at Cardinal 14.09.20. Excellent aroma and taste of pecan, pistachio, brittle and dark chocolate.

7.2

Incredible pastry-like. Super well made for what they want. But it’s just too sweet and like a cake to be great beer. Craft beer bar hamburg

7.6

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

330 ml bottle, as Omnipollo Noa Pecan Mud (cake is not mentioned on the bottle), brewed by Omnipollo at Brouwerij de Molen. Available at Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger, which previously stocked the Bourbon BA version. ABV is 11,0%. Pitch black colour, moderate brown head. Aroma of roast malts, caramel, molasses, syrup, chocolate, vanilla, pecan nuts. Sweet and smooth flavour, with the same elements as the aroma, also notes of coffee and moderate bittering hops.

5.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Svart vätska. Vanilj, choklad och kaffe i en aromkonsert orkestrerad av bryggaren. Pecannöten hämtas från sent 80-tal i en dessert signerad hockeykväll. När du sedan kommer till smaken inser du vilken fejk denna dryck är. Kemisk, konstlad och med en tråkig grundöl. Men som man säger inget är dolt, bryggeriet är transparent.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Rating #8003, Beer #11 of 17 (8 beers on either side of #8000 plus the magic 8000th itself) Super pitch black coloured body with an oily glow and a fully opaque, deep dark brown tint with a good two to three centimetre tall rich oily brown head that fades relatively quickly. Aroma of hazlenuts, chocolate, deep peated malts, some coffee, lactose, bunches of earth and somehow, even more jam-packed hazlenuts in the form of a liquid nutella, complete with the sweetness and light biscuity notes. Full-bodied; Super rich hazlenut, peanut, almond, fig, raisin, lactose and especially peaty flavours dominate with a prune twang as well as the rich lactose that stays true for a long time, but the fruits obviously show the deeper sides and a strength without pungency. Aftertaste shows the robust hazlenut flavours first and foremost with a lot of nutty flavours, a good deal of deep flavours from the peat and malt, but the real punch here is the fruits that are noticeable, but were very strong while the robust coffee and chocolate notes roam quite well. Overall, a very nice hazlenut-based Imperial Stout with tons of sweetness, around immediately after opening, but some conflicted guidance on the sugars and exactly what to cope with in terms of the flavour. This was the eleventh beer of my 8000th celebration, the third on the 'other side' of 8000, and an amazingly balanced and flavourful beer throughout! I sampled this 33 cL can, purchased from Carmine Street Beers in New York, New York on 29-November-2018 for US$5,99 sampled at my house in Washington on 26-April-2020, as Beer #11 of the 8000th Beer Celebration!