Bottle from Liva. Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are roast malt, chocolate, milk, nuts and hops.

Bottled (from bierzwerg.de). Rubyish brown colour, mediumsized off-white head that leaves some lace. Aroma is malty, some roasted malts, mild toffeeish notes as well as some ashes and mild dark dry fruity notes. Flavour is roasted malts, some ashes, mild chocolate, raisins and a quite bitter finish.

Bottle 330ml. @ home.Clear medium to dark red brown color with a large, frothy to cream, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, roasted. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, coffee, dark malt, roasted, chocolate malt. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110115]

33cl bottle from Bierzwerg. Poured almost black with a frothy beige head. Lovely aroma of grounded coffee and caramel malt. Flavor is roasted malt, coffee and chocolate. Smooth. Finish is ashy and quite dry. Really nice schwarzbier

Bottle: Poured a light black color beer with a medium foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of light roasted malt with light lactic sugar notes is quite enjoyable. Taste is also a well balanced mix between some roasted malt and light sugar notes. Body is about average with good carbonation. Nothing earth shattering but well brewed and enjoyable.

Brown bottle, 11.2 ounces, via Luc Bourbonnière (merci!), savoured on September 16 2010; eye: black with bronze reflections, opaque, tiny cappuccino creamy head, nice lacing; nose: roasted malt, chocolate, vanilla; mouth: roasted malt, chocolate, vanilla, caramel, finale in light roasted malt with presence of chocolate, medium-light body, good carbonation, lightly acrid and acidic, lightly sweet, lightly oily texture; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 11,2 onces, via Luc Bourbonnière (merci!), savourée le 16 septembre 2010; œil : noire avec des reflets bronze, opaque, petite mousse crémeuse cappuccino, bonne dentelle; nez : malt torréfié, chocolat, vanille; bouche : malt torréfié, chocolat, vanille, caramel, finale en léger malt torréfié avec présence de chocolat, corps moyen-léger, bonne carbonatation, légère âcreté et acide, légèrement sucrée, texture légèrement huileuse; en résumé : bien

Bottle. Black with a medium beige head. Aroma has toast, plums, sourish coffee, grass. Quite a lot of coffee in the taste, as well as some coffee astringency. Caramel and some burnt malt are just underneath. Modest spicy bitter finish. A little thin, but very drinkable and pretty tasty.

Bottle from Bottle Barn in Santa Rosa, CA. Pours very dark brown with ruby glints and a 3 finger foamy ringy clingy beige head. Mild burnt malt aroma with something like grassy hop. Medium body with lightly foamy carbonation. Flavor is smooth burnt malt with a floral hop aspect, backed by a murky chocolate flavor. Which is pleasant. Aroma begins to seem mildly floral. It’s quite tasty and very drinkable.

Poured from 11.2 oz bottle. This tastes more like an Oatmeal Stout than a Schwarzbier. Aroma is of chocolate and a soft malt. Appearance is just like an Oatmeal Stout, very creamy and pure black. Taste is creamy with chocolate notes. It’s good, just not what I expected.

Very dark brown. The aroma is raisiny, slightly tarry, burnt with dark fruits and background earthy/toffeeness. This is somebody’s interpretation of an old ale. Chrewy, sweet but quite earthy and tarry. Light raisin and molasses. Fairly light body - dangerously drinkable with its smooth dark flavours.