9.8

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

Rating #8000. Tap at MBCC 2018, green session - HUGE thanks to J&C (fonefan) for getting this first and not finishing it until I was in! Black color with beige head. Aroma is cinnamon, black chocolate, super intense but not overdone; maybe a touch too boozy. Taste is cinnamon, some barrel sugars, chili catch, hot chocolate. Amazing. Thick oily mouthfeel with low carbonation. Wow, this really is better than regular Abraxas, on par with DL De Muerte for the best ImpStout I've ever had. God Juice!

8.8

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

Tap @MBCC2018, Green Session. Black, tan head. Choc, bourbon and chili aroma. Sweet bourbon flavour, low chili heat. Choc syrup, cinnamon, coconut. My rating #5000.

7.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Tap at MBCC2018, Copenhagen. Color is almost black with very small brown head. Aromas and flavors: Chocolate, cacao, some vanilla, some cinnsmon and roasted malts. Gently barrel-aged.

9.3

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

Sampled at Billie's Craft Beer Festival 2017, Antwerp. Pitch black pour with a fine-grained tan head. Notes of chocolate, cocoa, chili peppers, smooth whiskey, oak. Full body, thick and smooth texture, medium to low carbonation and a sweet finish. Very well balanced and full of flavour.

9.9

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

Perennial's most highly acclaimed product, a rye whisky barrel aged edition of the classic Abraxas - finally able to taste this quite famous beer at BCBF (and I was not the only one interested, considering the long queue of beer geeks lining up when this one was opened...). Thin, moussy, deep brownish-tinged bead head, opening middle but stable in the form of a ring, over a black beer with deep bronze-ish brown edges. Overwhelming, incredibly rich bouquet of Christmas cake, gingerbread including a lot of soft spicy cinnamon, hot chocolate sauce and chocolate liqueur, nutmeg, vanilla-ish bourbon and oak, fudge, brownies, rum, liquorice, fresh cloves, juniper leaves, 'kruidenkoeken' en 'pepernoten' galore. Sweet onset, brown sugariness thickly coating hints of dates and raisins, noble and very concentrated, soft carbo, very thick and greasy mouthfeel. Profoundly deep 'chocolateness' and toffeeish malt goodness ensues, deeply and elegantly nutty, like a mixture of liquid chocolate bars and liquid gingerbread. This huge and decadently delicious pile of malts is brightened by soft woody tannins, vanilla-ish oak and bourbon colours, all on top of the familiar sweet and almost 'Christmassy' ethereal cinnamon and vanilla bean flavours. The chili heat, like in the regular version, accentuates a warming, obviously very bourbon-like alcohol effect without becoming too obtrusive. This is a majestic, caleidoscopic, awe-inspiring masterpiece of a stout - I had already fallen in love with the regular one, but this one is even better, and exceeds my highest expectations. One of the very best stouts I ever had the honour to taste, regardless of hype; I do not see how any stout can get any better than this so after a moment of doubt and comparing it with other top class stouts I had so far, I have no other choice but to give this perfect beauty a near perfect score...

10

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

BIG THANKS to Alengrin. 750 ml. bottle sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2017. Black oily syrup. Nose is amazing cinnamon is upfront but all massive bourbon chocolate pralines syrup candy to the max. Taste is melted pralines chocolate cinnamon warming candy, chocolate, bourbon pralines, vanilla, bourbon sugar, vanilla,… Pure praline beer, damn this is phenomenal. Holly molly.

8.8

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

Bottle received in trade. 2017 vintage. Pitch black pour with a mocha head. Intense coffee, chocolate, coconut, cinnamon & bourbon nose. Nice coffee & chocolate balance. Sweet, bitter, malty, roasty & nutty taste. Soft, round, velvety & tiny astringent mouth. Wow! Very impressive! Especially when comparing to the base. The barrel really did wonders.

9

Intense coffee, chocolate, coconut, cinnamon & bourbon nose. Nice coffee & chocolate balance. Sweet, bitter, malty, roasty & nutty taste.

9

Dark black sml brn head. Toffee coffee vanil flav. Sweet toffee coffee vanil flav. Full bod low carb. 9/5/9/4/17 4.4