Draught and bottled numerous vintages, most recently February 2015 bottling
Taza always pours a deep, dark chocolate brown with good clarity and brilliant magenta highlights. Burnt tan head is fluffy and well-retained.
Like all of their regular-rotation beers, the beer has changed/changes from batch to batch, as I can remember finding some batches sweeter than I’d prefer while the recent batches are anything but sweet. I much prefer the recent incarnations, though I can appreciate the criticism of it being too dry, astingent and not overly stout-like. Even for a Belgian stout, it’s extremely attenuated with its biggest problem being the scratchy malts left behind and really lack of any comforting creaminess/softness. On the plus side, the spicing is not overdone and while it may still have a strong ginger presence, I think it works with what the beer’s trying to accomplish. Dry chocolate notes add bitterness as well. No alcohol and certainly well-done and interesting/unique, if perhaps relegated to an occasional sipper.

Bottle. Pours a very dark brown with small tan head. The aroma is strong roast and cocoa. Medium mouth, dark chocolate, coffee, and cocoa, decent.

Bottle. Pours black tan head. Nose/taste of ginger, chocolate, cherry wood, cocoa, and coffee. Medium body.

750 ml bottle purchased at the Brewery. Bottle on 2-14-14 at 5.9%. Slowly diminishing tan head on a pitch black liquid. Aroma is quite nice, chicory root, ginger and chocolate bars. Light smoke.

Flavor starts with smooth chocolate, followed by light charcoal and then transitions into ginger and chicory that gives it a brightness that lightens up the malt flavor. Also has a light earthy note as well. The body is really much more thin then people may want in a stout. I think thicken up the body would turn this from good, to exceptional. The brewer’s creativity does show a great deal in this stout and overall is tasty.

hicory, smoke, cocoa and mild marshmallow are in the flavor as well as the aroma. Body is medium at best

Sampled on tap at the brewery. Pours a muddy dark brown, nearly black, with some ruddy, thick head. Nose has a lot of spice happening, cinnamon, ginger, mild nuts, almost peanutty, slightly vegetal, some dark chocolate, dark malt. Flavor is similar, more malt in the mouth, some dark chocolate, nutty, spice. Thin finish. Not bad.

on tap-big tan-brown. A-spice, chocolate-med malt. T-spice (ok, ginger), chocolate-med malt, some earthy/wood hops. Med body.

Bottle at RBWG Grand Tasting. Looks food, deep brown with a big tan foam head. Lots of spices, some dark malts. A touch dey and spicy. So so.

A brown ale with a thin mocha head. In aroma, a sweet soapy and beany mal. In mouth, a nice dark roasted malt with light treacle and roasted notes, maple wood, not bad. On tap at Somerville Summerfest, July 14, 2012.

Pours mahogany into a snifter. Mocha head quickly recedes to hug rim. Chocolate, burnt nuts and sour, earthy ginger aromas. Thin with sour ginger upfront turning to chocolate and vanilla in the medium-length finish.