Tap at the Beer Temple, Amsterdam. Poured a deep mahogany with a frothy light tan head and lots of broken lace. The aroma is rich creamy coffee and roasted malt. The flavour is strong bitter with a big smooth liqourice alcohol bitter malt palate. Full bodied with flat carbonation and a long bitter finish.

Bottle. Pours pitch black with an airy finger thick head. Aroma is burned malts, tobacco, peat, coffee and muscovado. Full creamy body with soft carbonation. Flavour is sweet with malts, sweet coffee, muscovado and kandi. Long burned finish with sweet coffee.

500ml bottle. Opaque black body. Thin oily beige head. Rather still, not much carbonation. Big coffee chocolate flavors. A touch watery, with some burnt black coffee charred tastes. A little heat. Pretty good, maybe not so well aged on my part.

Sample, olive bottle, 500 ml, best before July 2013, from Luc Bourbonnière, tasting with Louise and Luc, savoured on June 21 2013; eye: black, opaque, tiny ring of brown head, light lacing; nose: chocolate, light roasted barley, light chocolate, light vanilla, slight woody, slight iodine; mouth: chocolate, light roasted barley, light chocolate, light vanilla, light iodine, finale in chocolate with light iodine presence, medium body, below-average carbonation, thinner than expected, slick texture; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Échantillon, bouteille olive, 500 ml, meilleure avant juillet 2013, de Luc Bourbonnière, dégustation avec Louise et Luc, savourée le 21 juin 2013; œil : noire, opaque, petit anneau de mousse brun, légère dentelle; nez : chocolat, léger orge torréfiée, léger chocolat, léger vanille, très léger boisé, très léger iode; bouche : chocolat, léger orge torréfiée, léger chocolat, léger vanille, léger iode, finale en chocolat avec légère présence iodée, corps moyen, carbonatation sous la moyenne, plus mince qu’anticipée, texture coulante; en résumé : bien

0.33l bottle. A deep dark brown pour with a nice medium sized latte-brown head. The nose is lovely vanilla infused with lots of roastiness, a fresh amount of fruity green hops, it has some dark coffee tones and it feels really roasted and perhaps also a little burned in general. Nice stuff. It has a thick almost chewy mouthfeel this and the carbonation is below average and almost prickling. Nice dark flavors. Much more chocolate oriented in the taste. Enjoying the rich flavor here, it's almost creamy in a way. Lots of roasted malts, the vanilla is also found in the taste and it's not noticeable to notice the hardly noticeable alcohol.(yeah) It has a almost bitter burned roastiness that I actually think is suiting this quite well. That dark roasted flavor lingers in the aftertaste. A fine one. 07.06.2013

Smallish brown head. Barely translucent deep dark brown body. Earthy roasty dusty chocolatey aroma with rye crisp bread notes. Sweetish roasty dusty chocolatey taste with minty strawy notes. Full-bodied. Sharpish, slightly hot, mealy mouthfeel. Dryish buttery roasty chocolatey aftertaste with earthy coffee grounds notes. Nice, drinkable, interesting, harmonic. (0.33l bottle, from wine monopoly, Vika, Oslo.)

From a 50 cl bottle shared at Ryan’s. Pours black with a thick tan head. Aroma of coffee and chocolate. Flavors of licorice and coffee. Bitter roasted malt finish. Fabulous.