Tap @ Borefts. Almost black. Malt, soft roast, caramel and alcohol in the aroma. Malty sweet flavor with roast and dried fruit. Full bodied. Heavy stuff. Bottle @ home. Malt, roast, coconut, oak. Sweet and syrupy, roast, oak and whisky. Warming alcohol. Dried fruit. Coconut. Lovely!

33cl bottle shared at THT. Thin ring beige head. clear almost black pour. Very alcoholic

Tap at Arendsnest 16th January 19. Pours black and viscous. Aroma is rich and heady, dark fruits, malts. Taste is rich dark fruit, malts and barrel, liquor, alcohol is evident, port like, rich, syrupy. Really nice

Collaboration of two of Holland's best and most prominent modern (American style) craft brewers, an ice-distilled and whisky barrel aged stout, from a bottle packed in a box full of cartoonish Star Wars drawings and references - one may wonder how they got away with this and avoid Lucasfilm, or now Disney, filing a lawsuit against them. Thanks Craftmember for sharing the bottle! Mocha brownish-beige, thinnish, regularly shaped ring of foam, quickly dissolving under influence of the alcohol and in the end disappearing completely; black robe with misty burgundy edges. Intense, very strong aroma of very strong Speyside whisky, varnish, wet wooden barrel, chocolate sauce, green coffee beans, leather, kahlua, vanilla beans, cough syrup, rum-soaked raisins, teriyaki, candied cherries, fig 'jenever'. Condensed sweet onset, chocolate-coated raisins and dates with a measured soy sauce-like umami edge, very soft carbonation with the expectedly very thick, viscously oily mouthfeel, hot from the beginning but still leaving enough room to distinguish between the toffee-, black chocolate-, walnut- and coffee cream-like properties of the malts, a tad resinous but - more than anything else - finishing in strong oaky tannins (including the vanilla scent), bayleaf and leather aspect and the obviously huge amount of very explicitly whisky-like alcohol, very heating and long but somehow managing to avoid overt alcohol 'burn', as it is kept in place by the extreme thickness of the dark, bittersweet maltiness. Very intense, almost reminiscent of BrewDog's Tactical Nuclear Penguin but less harshly burning. A convincing testimony of the combined forces of two of Holland's most impressive craft breweries. Within this particular segment of ultra-strong 'ice bock stouts', this is very well executed, better than expected even and by and large comparable with Struise's Double Black. The Force is, indeed, very strong in this one - can't wait until episode two comes out...