Pitch black coloured body with a very small, and super fast-dying rich brown head, that starts at barely a centimetre tall, but fades to nothing, just after a few seconds - that I was quite surprised with. Aroma of rich anise, roasted malt, coffee, earth, nuts, fennel seed and a bit more astringency with the spices and roasted malt beating out the coffee in terms of the most dominate scents. Full-bodied; Rich coffee and roasted malt flavours show through everything else, but leave some sugars and caramel notes around the edges, with a lot of the other flavours being spice-based, which are quite potent and very strong, but the roasts and coffee notes dominate here. Aftertaste is rich, but a touch thin, perhaps due to the longer age, but this was evena bit thin for that, with a lot of roasted malts, bunches of coffee still and a noticeable amount of pure deeper chocolate notes (around 65% cacaO). Overall, a rich and very deep flavour throughout with a lot less alcohol than expected (due to the > 5 year aging, most likely) with a lot of roasted notes, some nuts and a pungent, but pleasant amount of coffee as well. I sampled this stubby, twelve ounce bottle purchased from The Proper Pour in Denver (@The Source), Colorado on 07-June-2014 for US$12,00 sampled at home in Washington on 08-December-2019, one day more than 5.5 years worth of aging, just after purchase alone. Nice to sample, and while this aged pretty well - there was a taste of maybe 7-8% abv here, it did thin out (as typical) quite a bit and the flavours were smooth, but still showing a lot of bitterness from the malts.