8.6

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

22 oz. bottle, pours jet black with almost no head. Aroma is loaded with dry roasted hazelnuts, big bourbon barrels, and a touch of banana. Flavour is remarkably complex and rich, with rich roasted hazelnuts, gentle banana, and wonderful bourbon barrels that bring it all together. I’m always weary of banana in stouts, but this works wonderfully well. Love the hazelnut character, which seems to dry things out a bit. Not too sweet at all. Beauty.

8.4

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

22oz bottle. Pours dark brown. Tons of hazelnut and banana on the nose. Flavour has a lot of dry hazelnut, a pleasant banana component, and a very nice bourbon barrel bringing it all together.

8.2

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

Sample kindly served by Doug. Appearance: very dark brown with a beige head. Aroma: loads of hazelnut, sweet, some earthiness, American oak. Taste: along the same lines, very thick, a lot of nuts, moderately to highly sweet. Couldn't really detect banana, but it's probably added to the overall body. Overall: good one.

8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is chocolate, vanilla, coconut, hazelnut, banana, taste is similar, dry, nutty finish.

Boozy, big hazelnut, not much banana.

7.4

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

Stout Season 2023. Pours black. Chocolate, banana, nutty, milk chocolate, hazelnut, booze. Medium body. Good.

7.9

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

Creamy lightbrown fair mostly diminishing head. Black colour. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. Heavy bitter flavor. Long heavy bitter finish. Creamy palate.

8.8

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

8.5

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

Bottle @ Cafe Albert. Pours black with a brown head. Aroma of roasted malt, caramel, dark chocolate, hazelnuts. Flavor is sweet, rich malty, caramel, dark chocolate, hazelnut, light banana, alcohol. Full body, oily mouthfeel, soft carbonation, sweet finish with warming alcohol. 111123