12 ounce can from Binny’s River Grove, 9/22/22. New brewery! Brewery #2101, USA #1704, Illinois #77. Dark brown, medium brown head, average retention. Aroma of roast, coffee, nuts. Taste is chocolate, roast, soy, nuts. Tad bit thin. Not very rugged. Okay.

From bottle: The beer pours nice and dark. Black, to all intents and purposes. The smell is pleasantly roasty, with dark coffee and a bit of cocoa in the back. The taste is a little, dare I say it, scorched. Just because of its dark roast malt. This overrides the malt sweetness. There is more coffee roast in the palate. Hop bitterness is there mainly to keep the malts from getting too syrupy, and add to the overall bitter coffee impression. This is a solid, strongly flavored beer, but at 5.9% it's not overly alcoholic. Should pair well with beef or ham during holiday dinners.

12oz bottle. Deep brown-black body. Big creamy beige head. Full bodied, heavy Porter. Quite enjoyable, bold for the style, and thankfully free of gimmicks.Rich chocolate, caramel, faint coffee. Really nails it.

Draft at Shoeless Joe's. Dark brown pour with a creamy head and a lot of lace. Heavy coffee in both the aroma and flavor. Roasty and fairly bitter. Definitely get the espresso feel and flavor they were going for. Fairly full bodied for a brew under 6%. I'd have guessed higher. Rather dry/ bitter on the finish. There's a lot of coffee flavor and body packed into this beer. Maybe it could use a little balance, but overall, it is pretty good.