Another rare bottle from Acknud. Pours opaque brown/black with a 4-finger dark tan head. Primary aroma is coffee! Secondary aroma is chocolate. Full bodied with creamy/frothy carbonation. Flavor is coffee, coffee, darkly toasted malt, coffee, and I can’t taste anything else. It moderates, but finishes quite coffee. This is a good kick in the head stout. Arguably underrated.

12oz bottle-pours a light brown ring for a head and black color. Aroma is wow coffee. Taste is coffee, some hops bitterness. Well done for the coffee lover, which isn’t me.

Bottle. Solid, creamy, in-your-face coffee stout. Opaque black pour with rich, short tan head. The enticing aroma has plenty of roasted and burnt malts, coffee and dark chocolate. The flavor is moderately sweet and moderately acidic. Moderate to heavy espresso coffee bitterness in the finish. Very dry. Slight metallic aftertaste. Medium body and moderately creamy texture.

3-5 month old bottle from Shigadeyo, drunk on 11/2/07
Black body, with a medium-high clarity and a large, light-tan head showing moderate retention and light lacing.
Typical coffee stout aroma, and fortunately, it’s very aromatic. Vanilla, fresh beans, dry chocolate notes and tastefully light amounts of caramel collect at the edge of the nose. Light hop bitterness invigorates the senses and pushes the coffee and malt flavors through to the finish. Some crispy popcorn-like notes nearly remind of diacetyl, but I dont think there is any here. Quite dry and with that papery, beany note that is inevitable in coffee stouts. Hop resins persist on the end, but the smooth choco-vanilla malts do not peter out. No alcohol noted, medium-high to high strength of aroma.
Very soft, but high levels of carbonation lend a creamy-fluffy feel to the body, as light chocolate fudge braces the palate for a big dose of roasty coffee and strong vanilla flavors. It slowly dries the palate, with help from hop bitterness and slightly astringent black malts. Caramel sweetness perks up as it warms and breathes, and light looseness in the body is exposed as well. No alcohol noted and quite drinkable. Perhaps a little less caramel sweetness and more interplay between vinousness and coffee would help. I don’t see the need for this much pine and citrus bitterness either.

Pretty good, I didn’t expect much out of this. A barely carbonated, and very smooth stout. Loads of coffee in the aroma and flavor, some chocolate, and roasted malt.

Pour is a jet black with a small tan head. Aroma is all thing roasted. Some wood smoke and coffee. Flavor is more in the coffee catagory but not to overpowering to make it bitter. Some chocolate helps to sweeten it so its’s not so bitter. Its not Founders breakfast stout but its a close cousin.

Bottle. Coffee and ash aroma. Dark brown/black color with thin tan head. Nice slightly burnt coffee flavor with a hint of cocoa. LIghter body. Like an iced coffee - very pleasant but on the mild side.

bottle - Pours jet black with a one finger tan head. The aroma had good roast malt and coffee components. There’s plenty of coffee and dark roasted malts in the flavor. It seemed a bit more bubbly on the palate than most stouts. There was some bitterness in the finish and of course some lingering coffee flavors. It’s good, but you better like coffee.