8.3

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

Bottle thanks to Zakoon! Pours pitch black with a small brown head. Aromas of sweet bourbon, milk chocolate, maple, oak, fudge, caramel, light roast. Taste is sweet, oaky, bourbon, light boozy, light roasty, fudgey, milk chocolate, subtle salmiak like finish.

9

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8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

(Bottle sample @ MBCC 2017 Blue Session, Copenhagen) Pours black with a short lived tan head. Notes of sweet syrupy dark malt that is butterscotch/fudge heavy and supplemented with equally syrupy maple, chocolate, vanilla, bourbon, dark fruit, moderate roast, some drying wood. Medium to high sweetness gives way to a semi-sweet and lightly bitter finish with some drying alcohol. Rather full viscous body with very low carbonation. Good stuff, a little on the sweet side for drinkability but tasty nonetheless.

8.8

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

Keg @ CBC 2017. Black pour with a mocha head. Rost, coffee, chocolate, barrel & light maple nose. Sweet, bitter & malty taste. Soft, round & slightly velvety mouthfeel. Lovely well incorporated impy! --- Beer merged from original tick of See The Stars on 16 May 2017 at 21:38 - Score: 9. Original review text: MBCC2017

8.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bourbon barrel aged stout from a brewery in Georgia I never heard of. Pale yellowish foam immediately reduced to a thin ring, over a black beer with burgundy edges. Aroma of chocolate liqueur, caramel, pepper cream sauce, candied dates, very noticeable bourbon but still traces of the maple syrup as well, incense, vanilla-ish oak, glue-like solvents. Sweet onset, candied, bit cloying even, but matched with a sourish elderberry juice-like hint, thin black olive-like umami accent even, soft carbo, thick and very oily mouthfeel, syrupy due to the high amount of residual sugars. Hazelnutty, very chocolatey and toffeeish maltiness, hints of marzipan and chestnut sauce, spicy hop punch in the finish alongside oaky tannins and warming, bourbon- and rum-like alcohol, very heating indeed yet not wry at all, glue-ish solvents retronasally; the syrupy, chocolate sauce-like sweetness persists. Thick, sweet, 'decadent' stout, excellent, I wonder why this is not better known than it is.

8.5

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

At Hopishop 2017. Aroma has cherry, vanilla, chocolate and coconut. Taste of chocolate, maple, bourbon vanilla, coconut, cacao powder, umami and a long finish. Thick mouthfeel. Very, very good. I never even heard of this beer, but it's fantastic.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle 750ml. @ MBCC '17 [ Blue Session ]. - Mikkeller Beer Copenhagen Celebration 2017, Øksnehallen, Halmtorvet 11, 1700 København V, Danmark. [ As Creature Comforts See The Stars ].Clear dark red brown colour with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, toasted, coffee, maple syrup, alcohol - bourbon. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a long duration, toasted, roasted, sweet malt, bourbon, dark malt, maple. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20170512] 7-4-8-4-15

8

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

Tap@MBCC May 2017, Copenhagen - pours black with a tan head. Roasted and sweet malty with rich chocolate, coffee, caramel and maple sweetness, bourbon infused wooden accents, sweet boozy warming malty finish.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Poured from a bottle at MBCC Blue session. Oily lacing on the glass, filmy layer, jet black body. Inviting smell of dark chocolate, nicely roasted. Solid flavour profile of chocolate, molasses, bread and wood, ashy as well. Smoothly roasted ending with a warming bourbon support. Well bodied. Lovely sipper. (Copenhagen 12.05.2017).

8.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

MBCC. Very dark brown with small beige head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, maple, bourbon and vanilla. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, maple, bourbon, vanilla, sweet and warming.