8

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

500ml @ Ryan's. Appearance: very dark brown with a dark beige head. Aroma: coffee and green peppers, some American oak, charred barrel. and chocolate. Taste: along the same lines, nice body, a lot of chocolate and coffee, American oak. Overall: nice one, despite the green pepper notes.

9

Woo, this is one tasty beverage! Great thickness, smooth and rich. Roasty coffee, countered by sweet vanilla, lots of chocolate from the base beer, all balanced damn well. Barrel adds more layers, smoothness and yummyness. Maybe a tad too sweet.

8.2

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

500ml bottle. Nice vanilla and coffee notes, hints of oak and barrel notes. Pretty good, thick and balanced

8.1

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

2024-06-18, bottle, courtesy of Sergey, 7-4-8-3-16=38
Black colour, thin collar. The aroma is a bit earthy, coffee, green peppers. Medium body, moderately sweet; mostly cacao, a bit dusty, it shows therefore some green pepper. Not impressive.


2022-03-19, bottle at Black Christmas March 2022, 8-4-8-4-17=41
Black colour. Dark chocolate flavour, full bodied, with notes of cacao, vanilla, and ice cream. Excellent.

7.8

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

Re-rate: Poured from 500mL bottle. Near black with minimal beige head. Aroma has lots of coffee and green pepper. Taste of mild vanilla, some coffee, feint tobacco, unfortunately didn't age too well. Mar 20, 2022 (9/4/9/4/18=4.4): Poured from 1 pint .9 fl oz bottle at Black Xmas. Black with no head. Nice barrel notes, oak, chocolate, vanilla. Really nice, well balanced.

8.2

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

Bottle - thanks Matt! Pours opaque black, minimal head or lacing. Aroma is rich mocha, vanilla, chocolate liquor, marshmallow. Flavor is medium plus sweet light plus bitter. Medium body.