Casked from Blind Tiger. Dark, no head. Very syrupy. Some licorice almost. Not super succesful as a real ale.

LCRBM2: Coffee with too much sugar in the aroma. Very sweet flavor with roast and some coffee. Brown sugar. Not my favorite, just too sweet and onedimensional.

Tap at 4:20, Rome-Italy. Black pour, brownish medium foam. Nose: chocolate and hidden olive, hints of herbs. Mouth: watery, a bit weak, esile, olive.

0,33l bottle at home from Etre Gourmet (thanks Saeglopur). No BB date. black color, small coffee-colored head. smells of sherry, spices, light earthy, raisins, light licorice, some caramel, some oxidation. nice smell. full body, soft carbonation, slick mouthfeel. tastes of raisins, cardboard, light sherry, spices, licorice, light marzipan. finishes rather balanced with light raisins, marzipan and some spices. okish, probably could be a bit fresher (not that I can judge that without any kind of date on the bottle). overall drinkable but could be improved with some distinct stout-ish flavours.

’Standard’ imperial stout by Weyerbacher, with fairly thick, regularly shaped, pale beige, dense head consisting of minute bubbles and residing over a black beer more or less revealing its mahogany hue on the edge but otherwise completely opaque. Rich aroma of bitter chocolate, cappuccino, stewed beef with brown sugar, cocoa nibs, vanilla ice cream, leather, raisin, ’natural’ iron, kahlua, roasted pine nuts, whisky, candied dates, slight soy sauce, hints of cured meat, pear syrup, dry tree leaves, gravy. Restrained sweetness in the onset, candied fig, raisin and some slight green banana, sourish blackberry touch as well as a thin ’rim’ of umami, medium carbo (perhaps just a tad much for the style), very creamy, smooth, slick and ’fat’ mouthfeel, caramelly malt sweetness quickly gaining nutty and toasted bitterness and eventually becoming roasted coffeeish bitter but only gently so, very chocolatey too, paired with restrained but effective earthy and lightly spicy hop bitterishness in the end as well as a glow of warming, brandy-like but otherwise well hidden alcohol. ’Classic’ in its style, but very enjoyable; perhaps a tad less interesting than their Belgian yeast-fermented Tiny. Nevertheless very enjoyable if you like big, heavy stouts, technically perfectly executed and very (bitter) chocolatey in its overall profile - likely a good one to age, too.