Bottle from Brewcraft at new apt. Pitch black pour with deep brown tan head. Aroma is rich booze and leather, brown sugar, toffee. Big. Taste is huge astringent bitterness with leathery caramel. Rich palate. Long lasting burn with sweetness. Delicious imperial stout.

Bottle 330ml. [ As Buxton Rain Shadow ].Clear dark black color with a large, creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, light brown head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, light molasses, light coffee. Flavor is light heavy sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a long duration, chocolate, roasted, molasses, sweet malt, dark malt. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light to moderate alcoholic. [20141204] 8-5-8-4-16 Draught @ Fermentoren, Halmtorvet 29 c, Copenhagen, Denmark 1700. [ As Buxton Rain Shadow ].Clear dark black brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, dark malt, roasted, sweet malt, fruity, light chocolate. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, fruity, dark roasted, dark malt, dry. Body is medium - medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20160511] 8-4-8-4-16

Bottle kindly shared by MisoW, many thanks. Vey dark brown color with medium beige head. Milk chocolate, nuts, coffee in aroma. Taste, roasted malt, coffee, chocolate, vanilla. Tasty.

Bottle. Lots and lots of roast, coffee, cocoa, dried fruits. Very rich, chewy, tasty. Alcohol only slightly warming. Great beer.

Tap @ Fermentoren CPH. Black with medium brown head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, liquorice and salt liquorice Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, liquorice, medium sweet, little salt liquorice and medium bitter.

At a tasting thanks, small stable creamy head, opaque black color, alcohol coming out strongly from the glass but dies down in time, aroma of espresso, nuts, dark bread, dark chocolate and licorice, flavor of ashes cherries coffee chocolate and alcohol. Huge beer, completley over the top but very good for what it is.

Buxton’s imperial stout, with medium thick, very dense and creamy, lightly lacing, deep tan coloured head over an ink black beer which does not even allow much light to pierce through at its edges. ’Heavy’ RIS aroma of beef stock, old black chocolate, cigar ashes, dry earth, leather, espresso, charcoal, heavily toasted brown bread, pipe tobacco, salmiak, mocha ice cream, burnt sugar, whisky, bayleaf, ’haemoglobin’ iron, roast beef, varnish, dry forest mushrooms. Equally heavy in the mouth: some subdued ’old raisin’ sweetishness at first, immediately countered by strong, beefy umami and basic, ’dull’ sourishness; medium carbo, very refined ’stings’ on the sides of the tongue, but not interfering at all with the immensely thick, black, oily, viscous body. Middle phase continues the meaty umami flavors over an abyss of toasted and bitter chocolate-like malts, gaining a heavily roasted bitterness early on, almost a bit ashy, and leading to a satisfying but intense finish, where the sourish and deeply, mouth-fillingly bittering roastedness, softer bittering toasted flavor and lingering dried meat-like umami get the company of a significant amount of peppery, earthy, pungent hops providing a long spicy and drying bitterness and, only in the very end, warming, whisky-like alcohol, which somehow manages to completely avoid astringency. Classic, but very thick, roasty, a bit ashy and literally heavy like an imperial stout ought to be, and technically perfectly executed - once again, it is clear that Buxton does not satisfy itself with mediocre results and it shows. Hugely enjoyed this, but then I am a fan of the style to begin with.

Tap@Buxton Takeover, Fermentoren, Copenhagen (10/05/2016) - pours black with tan head. Dark roasted malty aroma and taste, with some big chocolate prominence, dark fruits, some coffee, caramel, great mouthfeel, solid roasty finish.

Draught @ Fermentoren, Copenhagen. Pours black with a brown head. Aroma of roasted malt, wood, coffee, coffee grounds, cocoa, alcohol. Flavor is rich malty, caramel, coffee, dark chocolate, dark fruit, dark cherries, light alcohol. Medium to full body, soft carbonation, light bitter finish with warming alcohol. 120516