Brown color with beige head. Aroma is sweet chocolate, malty, quite sweet. Hints of sourness. Okay, but not very convincing.

0,5 l bottle from a local grocery store, best before 23/10/2016. Clear, dark brownish red to black with a thin, frothy, slowly diminishing, tan head. Intense aroma of dark chocolate and coffee as well as dark ripe fruits like plums, cherries and blackcurrant. Sweetish taste with lots of roasted coffee beans and dark chocolate as well as blackcurrant, plums and dark cherries. Short, coffeish and slightly bitter finish. Medium body, slightly creamy mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Pleasant and tasty beer, lacking a bit of body and power. Still good.

Dark brown color. Molasses, dark fruit, cherries, chocolate and a touch of caramel in the nose. Rich malty mouth with milk chocolate raisins and dark fruit. Full bodied. Chocolate and toffee dominate the finish.

Flasche (50 cl) von Beerbaboon, Berlin. - Schwarzbraun mit hellbraunem Schaum. - In der Nase schwere Karamelsüße, Röstmalz, Rosinenschokolade und Fusel. - Antrunk breit dunkelmalzig mit Milchschokolade, dicker Karamelsüße, kaltem Kaffee und etwas ranziger Nuß. Leichte fruchtig-säuerliche Noten. Gut rezent, trotz beträchtlicher Malzsüße etwas dünn im Mund. Im Abgang eher schwache, etwas gemüseartig-krautige, sonst wenig aromatische Hopfenherbe. Schwach bitterer Nachtrunk. - Unangenehm süßes, schokoladiges, fuseliges Zeug, viel zu plump für ein ordentliches Starkbier, eher wie ein gezuckertes Dunkles mit Schuß. Belanglos. (Ursprüngliche Bewertung: 2,1.)

Neuverkostung mit einer frischeren Flasche (von Getränke Hoffmann, Berlin). - Recht malzsüßer, schokoladig-kaffeeartiger Doppelbock mit schwacher Hopfung, vielleicht etwas plump aber durchaus trinkbar. Weitaus besser als bei meiner ersten Verkostung.

500ml bottle, thanks to McTapps! Pours a deep dark brown with decent off-white head. Smokey aroma. Nice rich, complex taste with bucketloads of roasted malts, chocolate malts, rich dark fruits, treacle and a great smokiness wafting in and out. Nice warming beer this.

Bottled (from bierzwerg.de). Deep copper colour with a small off-white head. Aroma is raisins, plum, very sweet malts, some syrup and mild herbal notes. Flavour is sweet malts, ripe dark fruits, some bitterness as well as mild syrupy notes. Surprisingly thin for being 7.5 %.

Bottle shared with Niller - dark brown near black coloured pour with a tight beige head. Roasted malty aroma and taste, caramel, nutty, chocolate, smooth mouthfeel, medium sweet through to roasted finish. Very nice. ---Sent via Beer Buddy for iPhone

bottle from the brewery’s online shop. Deep brown with a creamy beige head. Malty with nuts, dates, figs and raisins, also caramel and some espresso coffee, dark chooclate. Full-bodied and very dark. Nice one.

(bottle) Black coloured hue with a beige and firm medium-sized foamy head. Aroma of mocha, marzipan, slightly milky chocolate combined with roasty and delicately burnt malty notes. Moderately sweet and slightly roasty bitter flavour, full bodied with a soft carbonation. Moderately toasted malty taste with notes of bread crusts, milk chocolate, lighter Latte Macchiato flavours, as well as liquorice spice; sweet-bitter and moderately roasty finish with the framework of flavours in the aftertaste whereas the alcohol is quite well-hidden. They are pretty good at brewing dark and strong beers, not to forget the highly aromatic and sessionable Atlantic Ale. 25.IV.14