Bottle at home in Hackney - sourced from Etre. Pours deep brown with a soft, foamy beige head. Fairly straightforward but nice overall, lots of ashy roast, strong bitter scorched earth, burnt meat, old leather, bitter baking cocoa. Medium to full bodied, lightly oily, with fine, massaging carbonation. Warming finish, more strong ashy roast, bitter scorched earth, dark chocolate. Somewhat aggressive but it's nice to have an old-school impy.

Sampled in between ratebeer and brewver, so not much specific tasting notes. This imperial stout is dry, very roasty, rather full bodied, but not American style smoothness. Well made in what it was supposed to be , though.

@ BXL Beer Fest. Dark brown/black colour, brown foam. Nose of roasted malts, coffee, vanilla, some citrus peel and vanilla. Medium sweet, roasty, vanilla and cocoa.

Tap. Pours black aroma and flavor are sweet and bitter, roast, malt, coffee, sugar, chocolate. Finish is really dry. Overall: good.

Imperial stout by this new and internationally oriented Walloon craft brewery; from tap at Foeders in Amsterdam. Pale greyish beige, mousy, large-bubbled, coarse, medium thick head, black robe with only about one millimetre of mahogany brown at the edge. Aroma of amaretto, caramel sauce, vanilla ice cream, hazelnut paste, milk chocolate, toffee, latte macchiato, blueberry jam, coffee grounds, marmalade (the orange peel element, no doubt), walnuts, tea, rum. Very sweet, candied dates and raisins coated in milk chocolate, medium carb, very full, bit oily, very smooth and creamy mouthfeel, hazelnutty malt body, bitter chocolatey too with a light metallic edge; lingering hazelnut- and vanilla-like sweetness in the end, rather low in roasted bitterness but still a bit coffeeish, herbal hops also very restrained in bitterness, so that most end bitterness comes from rum-like alcohol. Very sweet indeed – but if you look at this as a pastry stout, which was probably the intention, this is quite accomplished, especially considering how Belgium has produced very little in this particular field so far. Too bad for that light metallic thing and the fact that the orange peel doesn’t really shine through the way it could have, but otherwise enjoyable, if you like very sweet, desserty, decadent pastry stouts of course.