Bottle shared. Thanks Matt! Pours a deep brown with a small bit of beige head that dissipates. Huge pancake syrup nose that goes on and and on. Lots of coffee on top of that as well. Some faint brown sugar, and chocolate notes but mostly pancake syrup. Dates as it warms up. Sweet syrup on the palate, chocolate, coffee and more pancakes. Sweet finish with some light bacon flavors that come in behind the sweet syrup. Fun beer and pastry stout at it's best I suppose. --- Beer merged from original tick of Funky Buddha Wide Awake It's Morning on 26 Dec 2017 at 21:19 - Score: 8. Original review text: Big pancake syrup nose, coffee aromas and dates. Sweet syrup on the palate, chocolate, coffee. Pancakes. Awesome. Thanks Matt!

Oxford tastings
Black color, the head disappears quickly. Aroma and flavor provide an excellent character of chocolate with nuts, cream, and hint of coffee, moderately sweet, intense, perfectly balanced.
Wonderful.

650ml bottle shared at Alex's. Bottled on 2017-03-31. Pours a dark brown with a weak beige head. Aroma is huge maple syrup, coffee, brown sugar. Similar taste with some roasted malt bitterness. This one is maple syrup, coffee and brown sugar bomb. Good.

22 oz. bottle, pours black with a small light brown head. Aroma is loaded with maple syrup upfront, followed by intense coffee, but not getting any smokiness or bacon. Flavour is intensely rich, with a lovely maple syrup character upfront, followed by roasted malt and coffee. Not getting any smokiness or bacon. What a lovely mix of maple syrup and coffee. Superb.

Draught @ CASK Pub & Kitchen, 6 Charlwood Street, Pimlico, Greater London, England SW1V 2EE. [ As Funky Buddha Wide Awake It's Morning ].ABV: 10.5%. Clear dark dark black brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, beige head. Aroma is heavy malty, chocolate, sweet malt, cocoa nibs, maple syrup, light roasted. Flavor is light heavy sweet and bitter with a long long duration, dark maple, maple syrup, chocolate, sweet malt, coffee - coffee beans, light roasted. Body is medium to full, texture is creamy, carbonation is soft to flat, finish feel is light to moderate alcoholic. [20151207] 9-4-9-5-18

KRS 160517. Black color with a tan head. Aroma is mocha chocolate, maple syrup, roasted malt. Flavor is mocha, chocolate, maple syrup, alcohol, licorice, roasted malt, nuts, caramel, sugar, bacon. Weird beer in in a interesting way.

Bottle, kindly shared by an American visitor to Biervana, many thanks! Dark brown color with beige head. Aroma is intense and sweet chocolate, caramel, maple syrup. Taste is the same, with quite some coffee bitternes and roasted notes, hazelnuts as well. Thick velvety body with low carbonation. Delicious and super-nicely balanced!

Black color with a nice thick frothy beige head. Solid lacing. Looks good. Good intensity in the aroma. Full body and a smooth carbonation level. Mellow nice sweetness for a beer like this. Solid lasting flavor with chocolate, maple, espresso and vanilla. Complex solid stuff with a dangerously well masked alcohol level.
[Bottle at The Blåbær Lambik 2017 Release queue outside Himmeriget in Copenhagen, Denmark]

Brewery #1719

650 ml waxed bottle, shared by Werckmeister, big thanks!
Black body, with a small, creamy, dark brown head.
Aroma of smooth coffee, tiramisu, toffee, dark chocolate, maple syrup, cocoa, vanilla.
Tastes quite similar, with some more liquorice, some tobacco, subtle smoke.
Medium, oily mouthfeel, with a moderate carbonation.
Finishes roasty, medium bitter, a bit dry, wooden, a bit smokey, with liquorice, coffee, bitter chocolate, but also subtle sweet notes of cocoa and maple.

Wow, delicious! Very complex and rich and especially incredibly smooth to drink for the ABV, really perfectly balanced. Starts quite sweet, but merges into a please roastiness towards the finish, so that it never gets sticky at all. Releases more and more aromas and changes direction a few times, while always keeping the focus. Really outstanding, accomplished stuff!

Aroma/Appearance/Taste/Palate/Overall: 9/4/9/4/18