Bottle @ Eldorado, Zurich. Dark brown body with a creamy beige head. Aroma has dark roasted malt and lots of roasted coffee. Flavor is smooth dark roasted malt with strong, but balanced roasted coffee. Balanced bitterness and really not so much more, but a damn fine and well made coffee stout. Body is also balanced but feels almost thin without being watery or anything in that direction. Nice one.

Pours black with a small head. Aroma is dark roast coffee, dark malts, roasted barley. Medium body. Flavour is dark malts, quite some acidity, some slight funk, espresso. A funky espresso stout, quite nice. Finish is bittersweet, slightly acidic with lots of roastiness.

Bottle. Deep dark brown color. Almost opague. Espresso, roast and apple syrup in the aroma. Sweet tart flavor with apple syrup, chichory, peach. Coffee finish. Slight infection coming up??

Dark brown coloured body with absolutely no head at all, a few small bubbles and some slightly opaque notes at the bottom. Aroma of alcohol, roasted malt, hops (hard to believe), vanilla, grain, oak and some soy sauce and savoury notes. Light-bodied; Sharp pungent malt and soy sauce notes with Worcestershire sauce, grain, oak, vanilla and some light alcohol notes, but not effervescence or complexity. Aftertaste is very roasty, dark, pungent with alcohol and coffee noticeable, some light chocolate and deep vanilla and oak flavours. Overall, not a good beer, which definitely did not age well or hold onto anything worthwhile - pretty disappointing, especially after saving it for so long. Definitely worth passing over, especially if you can pack up something else in your suitcase and carry over across the pond. I sampled this 33 cL bottle purchased from Drinks of the World in Bern, Switzerland on 08-November-2009 sampled at home in Washington nearly SEVEN years later on 26-August-2016.

Dark brown color with small beige head, very wet foam. Plain espresso aroma, very light feeling not heavy. At a bit higher tempetature, there’s more milk coffee aroma. Taste is mostly espresso, roasted malts, moderate bitter finish. Also more milk at higher temperatures Light body and watery mouthfeel, low carbonation. A bit of a tartness. Unfortunately not very complex, but a solid brew, exactly what the name is: an espresso stout.

Zutaten: Wasser, Gesrstenmalz, Hopfen, Hefe, Café. Bin gespannt. Tief schwarze Farbe, aromatischer malzig-kaffeeiger Geruch. Der Antrunk ist vollmundig, röstmalzig-herb mit angenehmer Kaffee-Note. Zum Hauptteil wird die milde Milchkaffee-Note intensiver, hat was von Porter mit Eiskaffee. Dabei angenehm leicht herb. Der Nachgeschmack ist lang anhaltend, vollmundig-malzig und angenehm malzig-röstmalzig trocken.
→ Sehr interessante Kombination. Gut gelungen! Insgesamt vielleicht einen kleinen Tick zu süßlich, aber gut! 12/12/13/12

Draft. Cola, coffee, and chocolate malt aroma. Dark brown with moderate head. Sweet chocolate/light coffee malt and lightly bitter ash flavor. Okay but weak.

Bottle sampled at Festival der Bierkulturen, Koln. Pours brown with a tan head. Aroma of coffee, roast, malt, biscuit and caramel. Flavour is moderate sweet and over moderate bitter. Medium bodied with light carbonation.

Schwarzes Bier mit schöner bräunlichen Schaumkrone. Geruch röstmalzig, Espresso, Schokolade. Geschmack sehr röstmalzig, angenehm cremig, schokoladig, Espresso.