Bottle at Craig’s house. Appearance - opaque black with a nice lacy head. Nose - blueberry and alcohol with a big green coffee bean note. Taste - yep fresh coffee beans again, lovely blueberry jam through the middle and a nice balanced finish. Palate - medium bodied with a creamy texture and a balanced dry finish. Overall - delicious.

Bottle with thanks to Jan!! Pours inky black with no initial head, but a secondary small brown head that forms after several seconds and slowly dissipates to a ring that leaves pretty decent lacing. Aroma is rich cocoa, roasted malts, anise, and some smoke. Flavor is similar, medium sweet, somewhat smokey and lightly bitter. Smoky ash and lingering bitterness in the finish. Interesting almost ham flavors that somehow don’t distract like meat usually does. Some coffee notes as well. Full body, creamy mouthfeel. Quite a nice little beer.

250 ml bottle from Ølbutikken sampled in 2008. Pitch black body with a small, quite dense dark beige head. Strong aroma of dark, roasted malt, molasses, chocolate, mocha and fruit. Flavor is sweet, dark, roasted malt, salt liquorice, chocolate, coffee and fruity bitterness. Full body and long, strong aftertaste. A fine and complex beer.

Draught @ CBC2013. Pours viscous pitch black with a s,all creamy dark mocha head that quickly dissipates while leaving a very small trace on the glass. Smell is slightly sweet, malty and tiny fruity with roasted malts, dark roast coffee, burnt caramel, moist soil, charred wood, bitter chocolate, coffee hard candy and very subtle hints of green pepper. Taste is bitter and malty with heavily roasted malts, dark roast coffee, charred wood, moist soil, unripe coffee berries, burnt caramel, oatmeal cookies, bitter chocolate, coffee hard candy and hints of pine needles and grass. Mouthfeel is slightly round, roasted astringent, tiny dry, tiny fruity tart and near full bodied. Finish is bitter with heavily roasted malts, pumpernickel bread, dark roast coffee, salty licorice candy, unripe coffee betties, charred wood and burnt cookies. Very heavy and very tasty...