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

Can. Black beer with a brown head. Roast and nutty aroma with light chocolate. Milk chocolate and lactose flavor with light nuttiness. Medium-plus bodied. Chocolate and lactose linger with light nuttiness.

can at home... dark black.. thin tan lacing... soft sweet nutty chocolate roast malts nose... dark rich chocolate.. heavy malts... soft meaty chocolate roast... sweet meaty mslts

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can. Pours pitch black with a dark brown head. Peanut, deep dark chocolate, sweet red fruit jam, blackberry, cherry, nutty. Good body. Nice.

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

Taster at Standard Market Westmont. I needed to “rinse” the overdone sourness of the Une Année beer in my list below. Nothing against, the brewer, but I’ll try this beer from their subsidiary. Rich smell of cocoa nibs in my little round goblet. Even a little coffee and denatured black roast malt. There’s also some sugar in the nose. Dark brown color, little chance for a head to form. Taste is pretty heavy on the chocolate, and any peanut butter in there is adding a bit to the dryness. Sugar in the chocolate and peanut butter probably added to the fermentation. Does not linger too long on the tongue, just kind of slips further down with no effort on its part. Very pleasurable drink, though after my first beer, I probably should be glad I’m just having a sample of this. I do need to get home, after all. In other words, it’s dark, chocolatey, and its alcohol lands pretty strongly.