Can from Drankenhandel Leiden. Aroma is caramel, powdery chocolate, vanilla, fudge, toffee, roasted malt, coffee, sugar, candy, marshmallows. Flavour is very sweet with a roasty bitterness in the finish. Body is above medium. The 14% is hidden to an impressive extent. Very flavored and sugary, overall too adjunct-flavored and sweet for me to make this a winner. Sweet and candied like an Oompa Loompa orgy.

Can shared at the CBJ tasting, thanks to Kenneth, 12/06/24. Black with a tan head. Nose is roast malts, chocolate, charr, dried fruit esters. Taste comprises chocolate, light spice, vanilla, toffee fudge, dark malts, spice. Medium plus bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Middle of the road impy ... okay gentle sipper but lacking depth.

Can shared at CBJ - Bermondsey. Cheers to Kenny. Pours clear, deep brown with a small, creamy tan head. Medium sweet flavour with a little cocoa powder, dried berries, toasted malts, earth, mild roast. Medium to full bodied with average carbonation toon. Finishes with more powdery chocolate, some roast, leathery berries. So so.

Can at the craft beer junction bermondsey tasting. Many thanks to Kenny. A reddish mahogany brown coloured pour a halo of light tan head. Aroma is semi sweet, brown sugars, raspberry culle, coconut. Peanut butter. Flavour is composed of tangy dark brown roast, liquorice, bitter liquorice, burnt wood, dark berries. Palate is drying roast. Fine carbonation, chalky, fine carbonation.

12th June 2024
Bottleshare at CBJ, Can, thanks to me. Almost opaque dark brown beer, small bubbly tan head. Airy palate, semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Light savoury dark malts, not a huge amount of depth here. Mild esters. Light and semi dry finish, mildly spicy. Inoffensive but clunky. No Impy depth.

3 July 2020. At Bar Beenhouwer, Ghent. Cheers, Anke, Pieter, Meeki & Ama Deke! Hazy black, lasting, small, frothy, tan head. Aroma of creamy cappuccino, brown sugar, raisin, vanilla custard, Nesquik chocolate powder, stracciatella, vague bubblegum. Taste has sweet chocolate sauce, caramel, dates & custard, bubblegum hint returning, bitter mocha with a herbal edge. Dry, herbal hoppy finish, dried fruit & chocolate powder lingering, boozy liqueur alcohol in the back. Medium to full body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Rather sweet with a weird bubblegum element I also found in another beer by them. Still quite all right.

Double mash imperial stout by this northern English brewery, thanks Steve for sharing the can. Medium sized, greyish beige, creamy, small-bubbled but opening head, very dark chocolate brown robe, near black but still largely translucent under bright light, with mahogany brown glow. Aroma of caramel sauce, milk chocolate, candied cherries, chocolate and vanilla jelly pudding, toffee, young madera, cognac, Jack & Coke, praline, chewing gum, cloves, liquorice, plum liqueur, honey. Very sweet onset, very caramelly, some candied fig and candied cherry notes, medium carb, full and slick-oily body; deeply toffeeish middle with milk-chocolatey and pecan-nutty accents, a tad resinous, with liquorice-, vanilla- and clove-like aspects adorning the finish along with a tea-ish hop bitterish accent – but also, and more than anything, lots of honeyish and caramelly sweetness lingering about, turning quite sticky in the end, when warmed by Kirsch-like alcohol, which - though obviously very present - remains altogether soft considering the towering ABV. Like a liquid ‘praline’, very sweet even if not technically a pastry stout; a very good example of how imperial stout has veered away from its robust roasty origins and became liquid dessert as a result of the globalization of craft brewing. Bit too sweet for me personally, but admittedly well-made.