7

Barrel aged imperial stout mixed with barley wine, interesting. Dark chocolate, coffee, red wine, vanilla. A bit boozy, otherwise great.

8.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

375ml bottle from Bottleworks, Seattle. Vintage 2017. Pours an almost black with a dark beige head. Aroma sweet with apples, bourbon, and chocolate notes. Taste is sweet, chocolate, bourbon. Very good sipper.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle aged about a 1.5 years and poured into a taster showing taster showing pitch black with no head and very thick. The nose shows restrained light notes of light bourbon - oak, vanilla, and smoke. The palate is full bodied and lightly carbonated. Light alcoholic spiciness that develops to a big alcoholic spiciness on the end. Flavors of subdued bourbon with a light vanilla mouthfeel.

8.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Dark brown color. Lots of brown sugar, molassses, fudge, burnt raisins, cherries, brandy, oak, vanilla in the nose. Amazingly bourbon brandy, molasses, dark chocolate, cherries, stewed oranges. Amazingly lingering warm molasses and brandy finish. Awesome.

8.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Corked 0.375l bottle @ Top Hops BA Bottle Share. This is a really deep intense oily black looking one with a small quickly sidesticking brownish top. Really lovely rich and nice aroma. Almost what I will call really sweet at first then it melts with wood, vanilla, spices, alcohol and licorice. Much the same in the lovely taste + some mild sourness, or perhaps tartness is a better describing word. Lighter than I imagined on the mouthfeel. Some heartburn from the alcohol - but it really works with all these amazing flavors. Really flavorful one for sure! Wish I had more time with this one. I'll go ahead and classify this as near amazing! 15.06.2013

8.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Dark brown, thin head. Mapley, vanillin, complex nose requires study. On the palate, sweet, bourbon, sticky rich, rounded alcohol and barrel notes. Already wishing I had more and I’m not even finished. Decadent but the influence of the brandy barrel lends fruit...the roastier stout elements are almost entirely subdued. Ridiculous.

8.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

Pours pitch black with no head. Aroma of leather, wood, vanilla, molasses and figs. Evident barrel notes of toast, vanilla and very light dill. Big, bold taste with loads of berries upfront quickly turning into leather, wood, figs, vanilla and rich toffee. Big notes of bourbon coming through as well. Sweetish with a dry, woody finish. Big bodied with a very light carbonation. This is quite a monster.

8.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

(Bottle) Black colour, flat with no head. Malty, roasted nose with notes of caramel, coffee, oak wood, vanilla, dried fruit, chocolate and a touch of brandy. A slight Angel’s Share acidity. Malty, roasted taste with black coffee, caramel, dried fruit, oak wood, vanilla, bourbon, treacle, sweet liquorice and a warming finish with hints of bourbon and a generous cacao bitterness. Full body, slightly oily mouthfeel, with a certain sweetness. Dark, complex, powerful and long-lasting like the Opeth song with the same name. Excellent beer!

6

Super boozy. QSF.