This is my final rating on RateBeer, culminating in my 4000th rating. I found this a fitting end to my time on RB as I bought this bottle around the time I started rating on RB at the end of 2013 and kept it since then. Goodbye RateBeer, this site always had its difficulties and it got sold to the enemy, but I still always enjoyed it here, I made long-time friends and learned so much about beer because of this site and that is invaluable! (I will continue rating on Brewver.com with the same user name.) So this is a vintage 2012 bottle, 12 years old! Dark copper body, with almost no head. Aroma of oxidation, toffee, chocolate, soy sauce, molasses, some dried fruits. Tastes much nicer, less oxidized, rich, sweet and dense, a bit toasty. Oily mouthfeel, with little carbonation. Finishes warm, sweet, toasty, a bit fruity, with cocoa, some soy sauce, slight molasses. Quite oxidized nose, but the taste is not off-putting at all. Still a really enjoyable sipper, with a dense, sweet character. Score: 6 / 4 / 8 / 4 / 15

(330ml 2012 bottle from the LCBO, consumed ~9 years after bottling) Pours basically clear deep copper to mahogany with a tiny rapidly dissipating whitish head. Aroma of rye bread soaked in treacle, golden raisins, some dried red berries, subtle nutty roasty. Flavour of layered fortified sugars, again bread or sweet bun dough with some cereals, raisins and figs, touches of sweet sherry oxidation, cola undertones from middle to finish, a bit of cacao and toasty notes, mineral dark lager crispness, long lingering tones of lightly terrified sugars, tawny port and toasty lightly bitter earthy grains. Warming alcohol but not hot by this date. Medium-bodied, oily towards syrupy, very low carbonation. Surprisingly solid for the age and relatively poor storage conditions it was held in (abandoned somewhere in my parents' furnace room), this has smoothed out all the booze and while it's too sweet by the end of a half-bottle it makes a nice replacement for port/sherry.

Bottle, 4 years old. Aroma is like a port wine, with ripe fruit, raisin, boozy malt and caramel. Heavy sweet taste of thick sweet malt, ripe red fruit, boozy oak and a long warming boozy fruity finish. I like this quad-doppelbock-port stuff.

How: Bottle, 2012 vintage.
Where: Systembolaget.
Appearance: Amber colour, no head.
Aroma: A lot of malt, caramel, some alcohol, dried fruit, chocolate.
Body: Full body, no carbonation.
Flavour: Very malty, dried fruit, caramel, some chocolate, a bit alcohol.