375 ml bottle into snifter, best before 1/3/2027. Pours fairly opaque dark brown/black color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and rocky khaki head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a small cap that lasts. Thick soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of huge milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, hazelnuts, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, and toasted brown/dark bread; with light notes of molasses, smoke, char, tobacco, dark fruit, herbal, pine, and roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, hazelnuts, and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of huge milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, hazelnuts, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, and toasted brown/dark bread; with light notes of molasses, smoke, char, tobacco, dark fruit, herbal, pine, and roast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate pine/herbal/spicy hop and roast/char bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, hazelnuts, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, toasted brown/dark bread, smoke, char, herbal, pine, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, hazelnuts, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a nice roast/hop bitter/sweet balance, and minimal acrid/astringent roast/hop flavors after the finish. Light dryness from hop/char bitterness, increasing through the glass. Medium carbonation and full body; with a smooth, creamy/bready/grainy/silky, and lightly slick/sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with a mild warmth lingering after the finish. Overall this is an awesome flavored imperial brown ale! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, hazelnuts, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the huge ABV. Big levels of hazelnut flavors, with great balanced rich malt complexity. Just wish it wasnt as increasingly bitter/drying from the hop/roasted notes; but I am sure some age will smooth that out. A very enjoyable and delicious offering.