Bottle pours out black topped with a small ring of a head. Nose is big roast malts coffee bourbon barrel booze vanilla chocolate. Taste is more of the nice sweet chocolate coffee vanilla bourbon barrel notes and some spice.

Dope coffee chocolate barrel flavor still

Pours black, small dark head fades instantly. Smell is very humble, showing only light booze, and roasty grains. Taste is sticky, sweet, full, vanilla. Coffee, barrel intensity is exactly right, aromatic, whiskey,... All in an extremely balanced form. Delicious beer with a thick ( though not yet syrupy, like j Wakefield has) body, and a low Carbo. Killer!

From backlog. Taster at SDBW pier event. Black with brown head. Roasted malts, Chocolate, coffee, whiskey, vanilla and wood

Black with a brown head - Wood, vanilla, coffee and whiskey in the aroma - Dark malt body some notes of roasted coffee with fruity tones with vanilla, wood and some boozy notes from whiskey - The dark malt with coffee vanilla and wood goes into the finish - This was real good

Draught at CBC Boston, 9/23/17.
Pitch black, inky tar. Opaque. Tan head immediately fizzles away.
Rich cocoa, raisin, prune and caramel are pitted against moderate amounts of rich, robust, but not overdone, whiskey notes ranging from spice to light booze. No toasted oak character, which is great. It's extremely aromatic and quite light on the alcohol with no big fudge or other concentrated sugar notes leaping out at you. Coffee adds more fruitiness, matching the roasted barley and playful rye whiskey notes, with a growing, "sweet" milk chocolate-vanilla and darker, baker's chocolate notes. Clean, rich, powerful, but finds some semblance of balance and even elegance, which is hard to do at this high an abv.
Fantastically flavorful with a rich, malty, soft texture that has light syrup elements, but only those that are inevitable at this level and nothing cloying/overly fudgey. Dark chocolate, caramel, toffee, prune and good amounts of dry vanilla, cacao and coffee all achieve a pretty nice balance. Alcohol is not hot or messy and further contributes to dryness, though the beer is already nicely attenuated to begin with. The barrel-aging stands out here, providing complexity and balance, without any dominance or astringency. Full-bodied, rich and quite lovely. A major stand-out amongst a sea of BA Imperial Stouts at the fest and one of my favorite beers of the fest. Not a lot of these Monster BA Imperial Stouts get it right, but when they do, they are decadently highly enjoyable.

4 oz. draft sample Copenhagen Beer Celebration, Boston, 23 September, 17. Raven feather black color. Aroma has a lot of coffee, vanilla, and roasted barley. My god! The flavor has coffee for days! Vanilla, coffee, and chocolate is meld well together. Yeah, the booze is lightly noticeable, not matter, the flavor is just awesome.

I decided to end my notes on CBC 2017 with this beer. At this point In the day I was light up like an evergreen tree on Christmas. Wonderful stout to pair with some Belgian waffles and reflect on the day.

Draft at CBC - pours black tan head - nose and taste of bourbon, rye, coffee, vanilla and chocolate roast - medium body