Courtesy of Matt
Very dark brown color, cloudy, with synapses shaped small head. Dusty bread aroma. Dark malts flavor, nutty, dusty, a bit of dry chocolate.
Nothing impressive, not even a real Imperial Stout.

Bottle - Cocoa and toffeee notes. Cloudy Amber with a small beige head. Toast and some cocoa with a long toasted bread finish. Lots of toast. Light for the style.

12 oz. bottle, pours a dark brown with a reddish tinge and a small beige head -- not even a close-to-black colour for an impie stout. Aroma brings out winter spices upfront, with light toasted malt. Flavour doesn't seem like an impie stout at all, but more like an earthy winter warmer, with toasted caramel, and a touch of cocoa. Again, doesn't seem like an impie stout at all, just a strong winter warmer; and as such, it's quite solid.

Draught. Opaque dark brown with medium sized creamy beige head, faint roasted malt aroma, low carbonation, initially sweet taste turning bitter with roasted malt flavor, bit of berries, smooth body, medium bitter roasted finish with alcohol aftertaste. The alcohol aftertaste is a bit strong but still nice.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown with small tannish head that lasts. The aroma is roasted malt, chocolate, smoke. Thin mouth, chocolate malt, light roast, some smoke, light boozy finish, very good.

Rich deep dark brown coloured body with a nice, tan head, about a centimetre tall. Aroma of roasted malt, light cherries and fruit, some oatmeal and a hint of grain and bourbon. Medium-bodied; Assertive effervescence with a thinnish quality, especially for the style. Shows a lot of fruit up front with a touch of chocolate and coffee, but more cherry and apple/pear flavours than I’d expect with a milky, lactose finish. Aftertaste shows light hints of tobacco and earth with a raisin and light pit fruit sweetness, but the malts are light and disappointing and only a hint of complexity comes through. Overall, a decent beer at best that doesn’t show much of the good qualities of an imperial stout and only some of the decent qualities of a sweet or foreign stout. Not worth searching for and definitely not worth aging for any significant period of time. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Good Beer in New York, New York on 19-July-2014 for US$2,39 sampled at home in Washington on 18-September-2015 about fourteen months after purchase.

Pour is a near black with a small tan head. Aroma is a roasted near a char malt with a little bakers chocolate. Flavor is almost and intense burnt malt with a fresh earthiness to it. Finish is bitter and earthy. If you like you porters with a almost burnt aspect this is for you. It’s worth a sample to check out what they did with the malts here.

Bottle shared at chriso’s post-GBBF shindig 2014 - London. Pours deep brown with a foamy, tan head. Dusty chocolate abounds in this one, coloured by notes of earthy bitterness, dark sugars. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Finishes with cheap-tasting chocolate. So so.