7.2

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

Draught at the brewery, 2/4/23. Served in a small, plastic cup with a sugar and cookie rim, just as it should be. Dark, no head. Not too sweet in the nose, though of course it's full of sweet notes. Raisin, fudge, oatmeal cookie, prune, vanilla. No booze, impressively. Soft, malty, but you can tell there was a very strong effort to make sure this thing isn't syrupy/sugary/cloying. Lots of cookie like character, sort of pastry-like I guess. Dark chocolate, prune, raisin, fig sort of thing. Low carbonation. Alcohol dryness on the end but no sharpness. Fine for a pastry stout but nothing too compelling for me here.