0.341l bottle from 2010 shared with The Tasting Crew. Looks really good this. Deep and dark near black looking this and it has a really nice deep dark chocolate head. Lots and lot of roastiness here. Super dark 88 percent chocolate is detected, some vanilla, some dark berries. It's quite nice. Lots of dry spicy Christmas flavors here! Imagine the darkest chocolate bar you've had. This tastes quite a bit like this. The Christmas spices reminds me of cinnamom and nutmeg. It has this slightly acidity as well. Could it be coffee acidity? The main thing I'm left with is a really good dark chocolate bar that I've eaten a bit to fast. Lots and lots of flavor. Yeah, what more to say it's a really fine one. 21.05.2014

BOTTLE 341ML from bugent. Thanks, Sergio!

Look: pitch black with a big mocha-orange head.
Aroma: clearly (but not overwhelmingly) bourbon barrel - vanilla and whisky, roasted, some alcohol, sweetness, dark fruit.
Taste: start light sweet with some acid-roast, then goes a big wave of bitterness with phenolic/alcohilc overtones. Quite a bit of alcohol when it starts, which slowly evaporates by the time you finish the glass.

Bottle (Vintage 2013) from my Secret Santa, many thanks Robin. Almost black colored beer with thick beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, cocoa powder, dark chocolate. Taste, chocolate, roasted malt, vanilla, very light licorice, wood. Very smooth not sweet, tasty imperial stout.

Bottle from the LCBO (2013 vintage). Pours a deep brown with a one finger deep khaki head. Nose is coffee and vanilla with dark fruits and a grassy background. Start is sweet toffee and vanilla which leads to a nice level of coffee and chocolate bitterness that produces a relatively dry finish. Bourbon comes out as it warms. Creamy full body with soft carbonation.

Mise à jour (17 mai 2014); elle sent encore meilleur avec le temps. Du bonbon! Je ne sais pas si le vieillissement en fût lui est si bénéfique mais maudit que c’est bon!!! L’odeur est si complexe...

(2011 bottle, ~2 years old) Pours pitch black with a small quite dark brown active head that faded quickly away but left lots of lace. A big, rich aroma: dark bittersweet chocolate, roast coffee/malt, smoky/burnt wood, vanilla, a little bourbon, soy sauce, something creamy/coconut-like, definite malt sweetness underneath all those layers. Flavour initially black coffee, roasted barley, chocolate, vanilla sweet malt. Then the bourbon and wood components build up though the whiskey is never overpowering. Smoky and burnt from the mid-palate on, a bit of anise/hop character. Quite dry for most of the latter half of a sip, with a fairly substantial roast barley/hop//smoke bitterness to the finish. Palate is full but smooth with the alcohol pretty well-hidden, carb not heavy but slightly prickly. This is a really good RIS - it’s got lots of layers of aroma and flavour to discover, the wood-ageing is kept well in check and it’s neither a sugar or roast bomb and the dry/bitter nature is compelling. Wish I had more 2011 left than I do, and I should go get another 2013!

[Thanks to Glouglouburp]. Bottle. Black colour with a tan head with short duration and medium lacing. Aroma has notes of coffee beans, black chocolate, coconut, light vanilla with roasted malts and bourbon notes. Flavor has notes of roasted and burnt malts, black chocolate and coffee, strong bourbon notes that remains in the mounth for a long time; slightly sweet at the beginning with a moderate bitterness in the final ad aftertaste, some licorice and vanilla hints. The final is strongly alcoholic joined with coffee and bourbon notes and dry sensation.

Vintage 2013, bottle, 341 ml, in a cardboard tube, gift from the brewery, received on October 13 2013, savoured on October 28 2013; eye: roasted barley, coffee, black chocolate, peat, iodine, light burnt barley, soy sauce, light alcohol, slight bourbon, slight woody; nose: malt, caramel, light Madeira; mouth: roasted barley, black coffee, chocolate, peat, iodine, burnt barley, pleasant acridness, soy sauce, light alcohol, light vanilla, alcohol warmth, light bourbon, slight woody, dry finale in roasted barley with burnt barley, full body, below-average carbonation, quite bitter, oily texture; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Millésime 2013, bouteille, 341 ml, dans un tube en carton, cadeau de la brasserie, reçu le 13 octobre 2013, savourée le 28 octobre 2013; œil : noire, opaque, belle mousse brun foncé qui se transforme en un petit anneau, très légère dentelle; nez : orge torréfiée, café, chocolat noir, tourbe, iode, léger orge brûlé, sauce soya, léger alcool, très léger bourbon, très léger boisé; bouche : orge torréfiée, café noir, chocolat, tourbe, iode, orge brûlée, âcreté plaisante, sauce soya, léger alcool, léger vanille, chaleur d’alcool, léger bourbon, très léger boisé, finale sèche en orge torréfiée avec présence d’orge brûlée, corsée, carbonatation sous la moyenne, pas mal amère, texture huileuse; en résumé : bien

Bottle - 2011 Vintage - Bourbon, chocolate, licorice, molasses and a complexity that could have me describing this for a while. Jet black with a huge creamy brown head. Sweet vanilla bourbon, chocolate, coffee, licorice and roasted malts. A wonderful rich mouth feel to go along with the robust flavor. It is sad that this beer doesn’t have a bigger distribution as I think it is a gem for Canada that doesn’t have enough recognition.