Bottle @ Tre Små Rum, Gothenburg. Black with a small light brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, coffee and a little liquorice. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and roasted rather bitter finish. Soft and smooth. 260713

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Pours almost black with a thin, dark tan head. Aroma is cola, molasses, dark fruit, roast. Taste is lightly burned coffee and chocolate... Malty, highly carbonated. Slight hoppiness...increasing bitter as it goes.....very good.

It pours a dark brown and gives the same color body in my nonic. A one inch foamy tan head appears and lasts about a good two minutes before slowly dieing. The smell has the coffee notes up front with light chocolate and tobacco ever so slightly in the background. The taste is sweet and bitter going between the chocolate o the coffee and the tobacco, weird, different to me. The palate is about a medium, and fairly watery. It is extremely drinkable. Overall, this is just a tad above decent, and I don’t think I’d come back to this.

Another great product from Shipyard at the LCBO. Pours a dark brown colour with ruby highlights. The head is huge, beige, frothy-creamy, had long retention and small spot lacing all over. Fresh aromas of coffee at first pour, with eventually the alcohol sticking out with notes of vanilla, roasted malt, chocolate and dark fruits. Wet, almost watery, medium-thin body. Thankfully, some mild dryness from the hop comes and saves this a bit. Mild hoppy taste, with some roasted malt, hints of coffee and vanilla. Quite easy to drink, as this is not heavy, but decent dark scent and flavours.

Bottle from Pikkulintu, Helsinki. Colour is almost black with large white head. Aromas and flavours are chocolate, coffee and roasted malts. Quite thin and watery.

Brown bottle, 625 ml, purchased at the LCBO, savoured on December 7 2012; eye: burgundy, clear, voluminous brown head, nice lacing; nose: roasted barley, light burnt barley, coffee; mouth: roasted barley, light burnt barley, coffee, light astringency, dry finale in roasted barley with presence of coffee, medium-full body, good carbonation, mildly bitter, lightly harsh texture; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 625 ml, achetée à la LCBO, savourée le 7 décembre 2012; œil : bourgogne, limpide, mousse brune abondante, bonne dentelle; nez : orge torréfiée, léger orge brûlée, café; bouche : orge torréfiée, léger orge brûlée, café, légère astringence, finale sèche en orge torréfiée avec présence de café, corps moyen-corsé, bonne carbonatation, moyennement amère, texture légèrement rugueuse; en résumé : bien

355ml bottle @ Pannuhuone, Kuopio

Pours pitch black with a small white head. Aroma of roasted malts, hints of chocolate, ash and leather. Taste is malty and slightly roasty with some sweet syrupy notes and hints of coffee. Finish is sticky and slightly roasty with some malty notes. Decent, a bit unbalanced porter.

(Bottle, 0.355 l, at Pikkulintu, 20121019) The beer poured black. Its head was medium sized and lightly brown. Aroma had liquorice, roasted malts and sweetness. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were roasted malts, liquorice, sweetness, hops and bitterness. Aftertaste had liquorice, roasted malts and bitterness. The taste was a bit watery but otherwise a good beer.

35,5 cl bottle @ Olutravintola Konttori, BBE 12/2012
Aroma is sweetish and rather srong on cocoa. Also some licorice and perhaps some distant vanilla notes too. Flavour is sweetish with salty licorice. A bit light but I like the strong licorice notes here. Better than I expected