Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Beerdome. Aroma is roasted malt with coffee, dried dark fruits, liquorice, and dark chocolate. Flavour is above medium sweet with a decent roasty bitterness. Body is full. Besides the notes of liquorice, which I don't care for, this is a solid Imperial Stout overall.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

355ml bottle. Jet black colour with small, creamy, fading, tan head. Roasty, chocolately, dark malty aroma, notes of dark chocolate, some cocoa, hints of leather, a touch of treacle, couverture, whiffs of smoke. Taste is roasty, chocolately, dark malty, minimally fruity, alcoholic and metallic, notes of dark chocolate, couverture, some dark fruit, plum, dark caramel, a touch of treacle; minimally warming, alcoholic finish. Slightly creamy texture, smooth and soft palate, fine, soft, still efficacious carbonation. Not overly complex,

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Ca. Black, small light brown head. Roast, caramel, coffe and chocolate aroma. Caramely flavour, choc, coffee, hoppy bitterness.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

12 oz. can from Tavour. Pours black, with a small, light brown head. The aroma is soy sauce, burnt coffee, cinnamon, toasted maple, coconut, and licorice. Sweet and syrupy, with a sharp bitterness. Medium to heavy body, with a sticky, astringent palate. This is an aggressive, burnt stout, but still tasty enough, and fun.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

355mml. bottle. @home. 05/06/2019. Pitch black colour with a medium tan head. Aroma is black chocolate, tobacco, ashes and licorice. Taste is rich black chocolate and tobacco leading to a soft smoked malts finish. Full bodied. Next one please!

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

35c Can at Freddy's, Nijmegen. Black colour, beige-brown head. Aroma of roasted malts, dark chocolate, some coffee, hint of liquorice, caramel. Flavour is medium sweet to sweet, oatmeal, caramel, alcohol, dark chocolate, some sweet soy sauce, liquorice, roast, hint of mocha, bitter finish. Full bodied, smooth, drinks very easy.

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

RIS from a brewery in Indianapolis I haven't heard of before, brewed for the good of the public, with liberty and beer for all... Medium thick, creamy, deep mocha-beige, very regular, dense, barely lacing but - especially seen its strength - remarkably stable head, thinning very slowly and eventually breaking open here and there, on a black beer with clear, thin, deep burgundy red edges of not much more than a few millimetre off the edge. Intense bouquet of an old school imperial stout: coffee liqueur, chocolate-coated peanuts and hot chocolate sauce, whisky, kahlua, strong but mostly 'haemoglobin-like' iron, hard caramel candy, granola, wet leather, rum-soaked raisins, pecan nut pie, black pipe tobacco, mocha ice cream, cinnamon, subtler hints of gravy, used tea bags, wool blanket. Deep, intense onset with candied dates and raisins, thin layer of beef stock- and soy sauce-like umami, sourish undercurrent stretching through the whole, very rounded, softly carbonated with a very thick, syrupy, 'motor-oily' mouthfeel, though the carbonation is still just lively and spritzy enough to add an almost 'relieving' minerally lightness, in a way. But then, thick layers of toffeeish, pecan-nutty, toasted-bready and deeply black-chocolatey maltiness heavily shift over the tongue, coating the mouth cavity with deep black bittersweetness, the bitterness - in a roasty, but elegantly coffee-like form - becoming dominant in the end, aided by a spicy hop bitter dose. Notably 'blood'-like iron sits at the edges, very clearly so, and very whisky-like alcohol rises up early on, warming the finish with a light burn - clearly 'camouflaged' by the thickness of the malts and roasted barley. A sweet tobacco- and bitter coffee-like effect lingers, bathing in 'fondant' chocolate. This is sheer joy: an American style imperial stout, one of the most prestigious genres of ale, the classic, old school way: no additives, no barrel aging (though there seems to be a bourbon version, which makes sense of course), no overt sweetness as one finds ever so often in imperial stouts these days. This is a true gem, taking me back to the great legends in the style. No complaints here, on the contrary, this is so well done in being both restrained and intense at the same time that it qualifies as a world class stout in my book. I need to find more from this Indiana brewery.

Chocolade, beetje rood fruit.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

33 cl bottle @ home
Aroma has cocoa and tobacco. Also licorice. Flavour has salmiac, licorice, some ash and tobacco. Too salty for my taste.