7.1

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

Can from Systembolaget. Viscous af pour of this one. Abv is hidden quite nicely. Did not feel the bourbon came through all that much. Decent stout.

5.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Brunsvart vätska med tunt och kaffegräddfärgat skum. Doft av rostad malt och plastig målartejp. Bygglim, nykapad rockwoll och murbruk på heldagsfuktade stålhättor avslutar det hela. Len och insmickrande smak. Vanilj, kaffe och tonkabönor. Men även inslag av havssalt. Om byggbodar möter mustiga irländare, som bor vid havskusten, är det just denna dryck de möts över.

7.1

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

Can from Systembolaget. Black with a small tan head. Chocolate, dark malt, coffee, licorice, light bourbon and some smoke. Medium body and with hidden alcohol.

7

Kinda tasteless?

8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

1/1/2021. Can courtesy of minutemat, cheers Mat. Pours thick, almost black, with a short lasting tan coloured head. Aroma of liquorice, dark chocolate, bourbon, roasted malt, light wood, toffee, coffee, black treacle. Rich, full bodied, slick texture. Average carbonation. Nice roasty bitterness. Develops very nicely in the glass as it warms. Nice long evening sipper.

8.4

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

440ml can sophiesbeerstore.co.uk. Pitch black pour with deep tan head. Nice big aroma of chocolate, bourbon, liquorice, leather. Taste continues, quite a rich blend with nicely integrated bourbon, good layered dark malts, strong black coffee.. smooth and nicely balanced. Pretty good.

7.4

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

Can at home. Opaque black color, full sized dark brown colored head that lasts for quite a while. Aroma is malts, bourbon. Flavor is malts, daek malts, heavy bourbon, dark malt bitterness with a sweet bourbon touch. Syrupy texture, decent body, average carbonation. Alright.

8.8

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

Bourbon barrel aged imperial stout by this brewery in Connecticut I haven't encountered before. Expensive can from the Mitra shop in Lelystad, Netherlands, shared with Goedele, Craftmember and Hinke. Mocha-beige, mousy, dense head quickly reduced to a steady ring, jet black robe. Intense bouquet of 'Haagse hopjes', chocolate sauce, sweet bourbon indeed, liquorish but subtly so, cinnamon rolls, sugared gravy, toffee, coffee liqueur, vanilla-scenting oak wood, molasses, raisins, caramel candy. Quite intense onset, sweet candied cherries and raisins with a light umami-flavoured gravy sauce poured on top, in a softly tingling environment; very full, oily, near-syrupy body. Thick toffeeish, molasses-like and chocolatey malt body with only mild roasted coffee bitterness in the end, lingering caramel and liquorice aspects heated by bourbon, which accentuates the overall sweet side of the beer rather than destroy it with astringent booziness; some black-peppery hop bitterness does provide balance, as does a subtle but noticeable, faintly vanilla-ish oakiness that behaves remarkably elegantly. Worth every penny, this is your typical postmodernly sweet imperial stout in full U.S. grandeur. Very well done, better than expected really - this deserves to be hyped, I'd almost say...

8

Fantastic aroma of dark chocolate and Bourbon, smooth and creamy mouthfeel of silky toasted malts, lovely espresso, mocca, cacoa, very nice!

7.2

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

9th October 2019
Can. Opaque dark brown beer, good tan head. Airy palate, a slight viscosity, reasonable fine carbonation. Soft rich dark chocolate malts, a good dose of rich chocolate cake, trace of chocolate fudge. Modes dark fruits and then a rich and somewhat tangy dark chocolate cake finish. The BBA here is unusually light but provides a spicy fruity bourbon finish but strangely, never dominant. Rich and flavoursome but never quite fully ascendent.