8.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5

250 ml can. Pours a pitch black hue with a small dark brown head. A huge nose, licorice, roast, vanilla, coffee. Damn, this is amazing. Massive dark fruit dominates, this is so damn like Expy, but with more sweet coffee and vanilla. No heat. This is drinkable as hell. Initially an intoxicating dark fruit essence, finishes with a dry coffee and toffee base. Damn.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

250ml can. Sweet, heavy and roasty with some coffee, licorice, stingy boozy bourbon and vanilla. Boozy and sweet, unbalanced. Regular version is slightly more balanced and less boozy.

8

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

Beer tasting at Ingos - Beer Republic 2022-06-18 Göteborg AR: Heavy roasted malt, chocolate, sweet, vanilla, rich AP: dark brown, wee lid F: Heavy roasted malt, chocolate, sweet, vanilla, rich

9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

250 ml can from Bhensonb. Nose is vanilla, bourbon, roasted coffee, dark chocolate, and a hint of anise. Black with a small cinnamon tan head. Flavor explodes with woody vanilla, rich dark chocolate, dark roast coffee, and touches of bourbon. Awesome stuff!

8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can from Tidens Farver @ Home. Pours black with a very small brown head. Aroma of roasted malt, caramel, chocolate, oak, vanilla, bourbon, dried dark fruit. Flavor is sweet, light bitter, roast malt, caramel, brown sugar, dreid fruit, wood, oak, vanilla, heavy bourbon, alcohol. Medium to full body, soft to average carbonation, light bitter finish with warming alcohol. Smooth for the high ABV. 270522

7.9

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

Small can from Craft Logic at home on a Sunday evening. More big stouts should come in this format (250ml can)! Much more manageable. Solid black pour with minimal deep tan head that dissipates very quickly. Aroma is powerful - strong booze, wood (lots of wood, like an earthy wet board), leather, dark fruit, alcohol that singes the nostrils. Taste is just as overwhelming. Huge alcohol and bitter bite, with creamy chocolate and some roasted coffee. Dark fruits less prevalent in the taste (which I like). Chocolate throughout. Palate is rich and sticky but there’s some carbonation there. Finish is again very bitter with a swirl of alcohol warmth that returns up sinuses. It’s differentiated primarily by the scale and booziness of everything, with the flavors and aromas being familiar just amped up, but that’s not to say it’s not well done. It’s not “balanced” but it’s well crafted, such that everything comes together.

8

26-02-22 // late night share. Heavy.

8

Old school roasty syrupy leathery booze.

8.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

250ml can from Tavour. Ebony pour, a few bubbles, then still. Sweet, boozy aroma, light notes of roasty malts and chocolate. Taste is strong and sweet, chocolaty, smooth consistency. More alcohol heat at the finish. Nice sipper at the end of the day.

8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Wee can at home. Pours black, nose roasted, chocolate, toffee, vanilla, meaty, taste is similar, chewy, roasted, bitter, boozy.