7.9

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

440 ml can Pours a very dark brown with short tan head Aromas of dark sugars, licorice, cocoa and slick roasted malts. Flavors of coconut, oily chocolate, nuts, vanilla and roasted malts.

8.3

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

Can. Black with dark brown head. Indeed massive cocoa beans, caramel, roasted malts, toasted coconut, vanilla, soft red berries. Medium sweet, a bit more bitter. Almost full bodied. Lovely! Not pastry but deep roast with a lot of aromatics. Really like this.

8

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

440ml can. Pours black with a brown head. Aroma of cocoa powder, chocolate, coconut, caramel. Taste of cocoa, chocolate, caramel, toasted coconut, vanilla, roast malt, light toasty bitterness but sugary sweetness dominates. Full bodied, smooth.

8

Lovely stuff. Bleak view thoguh

7.4

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

440ml can. Pours jet black with a large head. Aroma is oily roast, liquorice, dark chocolate and blackcurrant. Taste has dark chocolate and yeasty coconut with tar on the finish.

8

keg at cloisters ...dark black ..thin tan lacing ..soft sweet chocolate Roast malts nose ...dark sweet chocolate roast malts ..soft meaty chocolate roast malts

8

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

On tap at Siren Tapyard, Finchampstead, Berks. A black coloured pour with a medium beige head on top. Rich, sweetish, malty, chocolate, caramel, vanilla taste and aroma. Really good imperial stout.

7.8

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

Tap at the Siren, 11th Birthday Party with Dad. Pours thick and black. Aroma is chocolate and coconuts, cocoa. Taste is coconut, dark chocolate, big thick mouthfeel, very good stout for the relatively low ABV