7.5

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Vanilla, chocolate malt, and fresh hay aroma. Dark brown with moderate light brown head. Moderately sweet vanilla, chocolate malt, and mildly bitter fresh hay flavor. Nice body. Pretty good.

6.8

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

Sample at Daily Growler Powell during the 5th Friday $5 Fest, My Little Kitchen Truck + Special Tappings event on 08/31/2018. Brown-black color with a medium beige head that dissipates steadily to a dense film. Small patches of lace. Malt, chocolate and a bit of coffee in the nose. Medium body with flavors of charred malt, chocolate and vanilla. The finish is roasty with a short malty aftertaste. Decent overall.

7.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draft sample at the High Country Beer Festival 2018. Dark brown color beige head. Aroma of earthy chocolate, espresso, burnt caramel. Taste is dark cocoa, coffee, vanilla. Very brave to serve a dark beer in the summer in NC

6.8

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

Pour is a black with a tan head that disappears quickly. Aroma is a little vanilla with some cacao nib sweetness. Flavor is a muddy sweet molasses with cacao and chocolate syrup. While this was a flavorful porter the vanilla was not there in the flavor and if it showed up a bit more it would send this over into the above average category.

6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

355ml bottle. Darkest brown colour with small, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, beige head. Sweet-ish, chocolately, roasty dark malty aroma, hints of cocoa, treacle, caramel, vanilla. Taste is sweet-ish, roasty, chocolately, dark malty aroma, notes of cocoa, some caramel, vanilla; minimally metallic finish.

6

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

Sampled on draft at Penn Ave Brews this beer poured a black color with a medium sized foamy tan head that left decent lacing. The aroma was roasty and dry with a coffee presence. The flavor was roasty and dry with coffee and a hint of cocoa. Long finish. Medium body. Decent.

3.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4

Bottle pours big and black. Smells like a good strong batch of dark volatile malt beer. Big dark imperial jaw punching smash in the taste bud. Bitter, medicinal and rough around the chocolaty burnt edges. Difficult. Could pass as a big nasty baltic or foreign stout. Big personality rides the session clear to the end. Here boy, here boy, has anybody seen the barn dog? Here boy, here boy. Terribly on style. Even some aspects of black IPA lurking in the background. This is real imperial dark beer fer sherrrrr.

6

Dark black bod med creamy tan head. Roast, choc toffee ash arma. Ashy roast and choc flav. Med light bod mod low carb. 6/5/6/3/13 3.3

6.9

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

Bottle, 7%. Very dark brown with small beige head. Aroma is roasted malt, chocolate, hop, vanilla and caramel. Flavour is roasted malt, chocolate, caramel, little vanilla, sweet, hop, little liquorice and a little bitter.