7.5

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

12 oz boxed bottle. Aroma has notes of booze, wood, chocolate, sherry, cinnamon, licorice, cola. Pours opaque dark brown to black with a one finger beige head with decent retention. Taste is lightly to moderately sweet, a little savory and moderately bitter with flavors like the aroma with an emphasis on notes of tequila, sherry and licorice.

8.1

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

12oz boxes bottle from Tavour. Dark brown pour, beige foamy head settles to ring. Aroma is boozy, malty, molasses, sweet. Taste is sweet, boozy, nutty, chocolate, toffee and a hint of vanilla. Lingering sweetness and warmth.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

On tap at Apex. Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has bourbon, dark bready malts, and chocolate. Flavour has a ton of bourbon up front, lots of rich malts. Huge boozy beer, well executed.

7.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Draught at Monk's: blackish with beige head. Aroma is boozy barrels, loads of chocolate, vanilla. Taste is boozy, boosty, sweetish. Complex. Large.

7

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

Draught @ Brouwers, listed specifically as Batch 2. Dark brown, medium head. Sweet, toasty, the tequila barrel hits boozy, it'�s off-dry, for me I miss richness, so the barrel throws decent complexity but it doesn'�t really come together.

8.2

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

Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is chocolate, vanilla, caramel, treacle, hints of tequila, taste is similar, sweet, a bit of fruit.

8

Lõhn on väga vaadine, burboon, alks, linnnased, röst, magus, šokolaad. Maitse on sarnane, aga ka oma jagu linnaseid, mõrudust, tekiilat, suhkrut. Õhtu lõpetajana täitsa mõnusalt dekadentlik, aga liiga magusa poole kaldu, et saada paremat hinnet.

8.5

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

Pours pitch black and a brown head with short and little retention. Aroma's: boozy, roasty, (red) fruity, umami, molasses, rye bread. Retronasal it's bourbon, vanilla, boozy alcohol, sweet, a bit malt/grain, which is probably the buckwheat, and it is somewhat different than barley malt, molasses, roasty (smoked even). Flavour is full sweet but with some roasty bitterness for balance. Alcohol is warming but not too hot. Medium bodied. Prickly carbonation. Long finish, with that same grain/malt character, and moderate roasty bitter. World class as always.

8.5

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

Poured from the tap. Very dark brown with small beige head. Nice balance of the various barrels, lots of dark fruit and caramel malt. Great.

8.5

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

On tap at Apex, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma is complex, with loads of tequila, brandy and bourbon barrels upfront, with a deep caramel malt and dark fruit character further back. Flavour is complex as hell, with a wonderful balance of bourbon, brandy and tequila barrel. Loads of caramel, dark dried fruit and molasses. The barrel treatment is stupendous. Complex, elegant and eminently drinkable for what it is. A clear improvement on PNC #1.