Bottle at Stockholm beer festival ... Deep black ... deep roast ... swett lots of coffee ... little chocolate ... mlow malts ... little sweet ... lots of roast soft malts .

Bottled@SBWF 2007
Dark opaque black color, small head. Coffeish nose. Light, cold coffee flavor. Nice and balanced, malty porter.

Bottled. Deep reddish ambery brown colour, with small brown head. Aroma is strong coffee, some vanilla and roasted malts. Flavour is coffee, some acific fruits, vanilla and smoked wood. Pleasant.

(Bottle, Stockholm Beer Festival, 22 Sep 2007) Black colour with brief brown head. Roasted nose with distinct notes of heavily roasted coffee. Roasted taste with coffee, chocolate and hints of sweetness. Fairly thin. A bit one-dimensional, but if you like your coffee roasted, it’s a nice beer.

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of Sammy. Clear, reddish brown with a beige head. Distinct aroma of coffee with an ashy note. Medium-bodied with sweetish, roasted malt, some chocolate and distinct, burned coffee accents. Very subdued bitterness. 230807

Courtesy of dsnowden. Pours clear dark brown with nice tan head. Big coffee aroma coming from the glass that seems a cut above Folgers crystals with some sweetness lingering behind. The flavor hits all at once with roasted to burnt malts, malty astringency, coffee grounds and hints of molasses.

Bottle from HogTownHarry; Coffee, coffee, more coffee, and some light bits of roasty smokiness showed in the nose; transparent dark brown with a small tan head; very heavy coffee flavorwith some mild hop bitterness that lasted into the finish.

Beige-brown head, over near black beer with vermillionred highlights, heavily carbonated. Dry ground coffee, coffee sweets, moccha, moccha ice. Anything but beer. Very sweet initially, chocolate-coffee, as a coffee sweetened by somebody who doesn’t like coffee. Hold it, then I ought to like it - but I don’t. Finishes drier, at least, whilst starting to display some adstringency. Aftertaste is dry coffee, bitter, circle closed. Rather well-bodied. Not my cup of coffee.

2005 bottle from tiggmtl consumed on 12/15/2005.
An initially deep brown-black pour, which settles out to be a ruby-crimson tinged deep-mahogany body, with a light tan head, large, and receding, slowly to cover, with no lacing. Mostly clear. Aroma has a soothing, clear shot of a mocha latte. Clean and quite strong, without an intense bitterness or damp/composty note. Light vanilla touches and hints of light chocolate linger in the background, no hop apparency or yeast apparency that I can find. More or less a sweet, creamy malt and coffee aroma. The flavor is coffee up front, dark and flavorful, but not bitter and overly roasty. Through the middle there are notes of chocolate, toffee and light roast. As it begins to finish, a slightly muddled, composty/beany, old-coffee flavor takes hold. Some light astringency grows and it gets quite dry and almost bready. Peanut skins, nuts, light roast and more dry coffee beans on the finish. The body is medium, without any significant wateriness. Carbonation is low at this point, but the texture is slick and oily, gliding down the throat effortlessly and leaving vanilla, chocolate and espresso behind. A bit lacking on the beer qualities overall. It’s not that the coffee is overdone, the beer aspects (hops, yeast, malt complexity) are just underdone.

A brown beer with a small brown head. The aroma is sweet with notes of chocolate combined with hints of roasted malt. The flavor is very light with notes of chocolate, and the mouthfeel is very carbonated and the body thin.