Beer #1 (of 19) of my 9000th Beer Celebration [9 beers on both sides of #9000th itself] Super dark brown coloured body with a thick, but fairly fast-dying tan and light brown head that starts at about three centimetres tall but fades to just a single centimetre after a few seconds. Aroma of super deep and strong, robust and pungent alcohol, chocolate, raspberries and a good deal of beef jerky oatmeal, prunes, mushrooms and earth - very strong in the nose and perhaps more of the deep and pungent notes than the sweet ones. Medium to Full-bodied; Very rich raspberry and chocolate flavours that really do end up tasting like a liquid version of a raspberry truffle (chocolate) than anything else with some vanilla, cream, lactose and earthy notes with a lot of chocolate and dry crisp malt notes that end this nicely with the deep tartness from the fruits too - strong and pungent in a good way but the bitter and earthy notes aren't here - which is a good thing. Aftertaste shows the raspberries, the tartness, a lot of chocolate and a good deal of pungency from the alcohol, malt and oatmeal with some bitterness here of course, but the sweetness and fruit flavours provide some relief and bring out a nice complexity, especially at the end. Overall, a very nice, robust, pungent and flavourful, complex kick of raspberries, chocolate, earth, malts and alcohol all coming together in a tightly integrated package that seems to have done some nice time mellowing out in the bottle and perhaps would have done even better for another year or two without a degrade in the complexity here. I sampled this wax-sealed, 500 mL bottle, purchased from Mac's Beer and Wine in Atlanta, Georgia on 26-May-2018 in Midtown Atlanta for US$10,29 (2017 Release) sampled at my house here in Washington for Beer #1 (of 19) of my 9000th beer celebration [9 beers on both sides of #9000th itself].