Allspice, charred oak nose, hints of clove. Black, thin tan head. Sweet, which brings out more of the flavor of the spices. Ginger, soil, allspice. Yeasty tree bark finish. Medium body, moderate carbonation. Tastefully done, not heavy.

12oz bottle-shared by heemer77 from bluesandbarbq (Lou-Knoxville, so gotta meet with decaturstevo sometime soon). Lt tan-brown. A-cocoa/roasty-med malt, ginger. T-follows.

Bouteille. Brune foncée, col fin blanc-cassé. Arôme au bouquet épicé bien prenant, sorte de gingembre mais ayant une fine note de sarsaparilla. Pointe grillée perce en rétro-nasal pour donner à la bière une note presque festive. Palais est malté, léger chocolaté avec un bon ajout du gingembre qui est en balance avec le profil nettement plus malté de cette bière. On retrouve, ici encore, une touche de fin de saison, presque automnale voire hivernale dans la chaleur dégagée, retrouve aussi une note de sarsaparilla et fine touche caramélisée sucrée.

Bottle 355ml @ ChurchKey, Washington, DC
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, caramel, cocoa, cookie dough and hint of licorice and some fruitiness. Taste is medium sweet and light to medium bitter with a long chocolate, caramel and fruity finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

Bottle at Church Key, DC. More or less black in the glass, with a small, dense beige head. There’s salty licorice, roasted malts, molasses and some spices in the aroma. It’s full bodied, lightly warming and smooth on the palate, with quite a lot of salty licorice in the flavor. Molasses, roasted malts and some coffee too, not to forget the spices. Nutmeg, cardamom at least. Lasting sweet, salty and spiced finish. A bit heavy on the salty licorice, but sure nice. 150620

Pretty dark black, close to opaque with a thin head. Nose is...well I’m not sure. Alternatively it is roasty with an indistinct spiciness, and then it’s an acidic reminder of a vomiting episode I had a month ago (that’s a nice why of saying it smelled like my puke did). A tentative sip somewhat went in that same direction. Again it is alternately a sweet stout, mildly roasty, a touch acidic, with a mild ginger spicing, but then it becomes acrid, sour, stomach juice tasting. I’m probably the only one getting this, mainly because of just an unfortunate coincidence. Not affecting my numbers though, just weird. Still on the whole, a ginger/lime sweet stout? Not my thing. But its generally a well designed stout otherwise, I’d like to see SN take a stab at something like a foreign export stout.

Black with a tall, dense, tan head. Roasty, nutty aroma. Ligjhtly sweet flavor, lots of roast malt flavors with a spicy finish.

12 ounce bottle from Plaza Package. Pours a hazy very dark brown with a thin creamy tan head. Good head retention. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, citrus, ginger. The taste is chocolate, ginger, roast, spice, dark fruits, hints of soy. Medium bdodied, mild lingering spice.