375 ml bottle into snifter, best before 9/29/2019. Pours fairly pitch black color with a 2 finger dense and rocky tan head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Nice dense soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Awesome appearance. Aromas of big dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, toasted dark bread, char, honey, molasses, vanilla, wood, tobacco, pine, light licorice/dark fruit, light smoke, and herbal/roasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, coffee/vanilla, and moderate earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, toasted dark bread, char, honey, molasses, vanilla, wood, tobacco, pine, light licorice/dark fruit, light smoke, and roast/char earthiness. Good amount of herbal/pine and roast/char bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, toasted dark bread, honey, molasses, vanilla, wood, tobacco, pine, smoke, char, and herbal/roasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Damn nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, coffee/vanilla, and moderate earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance and zero astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate dryness from roast/hop bitterness that increases through the glass. Light-medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, fairly creamy/silky/bready, and sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a light warmth lingering after the finish. Overall this is an excellent Russian imperial stout! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, coffee/vanilla, and moderate earthy hop flavors; and very smooth and easy to sip on for the huge ABV. A very enjoyable offering.

Pitch black pour, visibly thick, with a very fine-grained head that is slow to make its way to the surface. It smells amazing: cocoa, dark chocolate, vanilla, coffee, maple syrup. Strong taste too, burnt malts up front, with a heavy addition of bitter brewed coffee and notes of vanilla too. My only problem is that the taste is a bit too sweet and toward roasted malts than I’d like. I cannot feel any alcohol in here, aside from a hot and spicy aftertaste. Medium body, not at all oily.

Tap at Uiltje Craftbeer Bar. Bessig. Te bessig. Te alcoholisch. Meer koffie nodig! De bessen winnen! Helluuup!! Backlog from 2015/03/04.

F: huge, brown, creamy, long lasting. C: black, non-transparent. A: first nice fresh citrusy/grassy hoppy, then malt, coffee, chocolate, hint of vanilla, honey, some alcohol too. T: 0,33l bottle from De Hopduvel in Gent, very complex, nice lemon hoppy, huge roasted malt, alcohol warming, vanilla, dusty/earthy, dark fruit, spicy/peppery notes on the palate, coffee/expresso, full body, good carbo, oily mouthfeel, quite high bitterness on the palate too, very complex beer not for everyone, may be too much hoppy and fruity but still worth to try.

Aroma: Dark roasted malt, coffee and chocolate. Flavor: Very roasted malt and coffee with sweet chocolate and dark berries. A creamy and alcoholic warm mouthfeel with a dry finish. Color: Pitch black with a light brown head. From: Tap @ Fairbar Oct. 2015