7.3

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

Black pour. Thin foam around the rim Scattered lace with vanilla notes, molasses, caramel, and cocoa on palate.

7.6

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

Can. Pours murky dark brown with a large spongy tan head, woodsy caramel aroma, medium carbonation, mildly salty medium bitter lightly woodsy caramel taste, cocoa-vanilla flavor, faint bourbon, smooth body, long bitterish finisg. Tasty and well balanced.

7.9

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

Taster at the brewery. Aroma has notes of caramel, chocolate, Whoppers. Taste is fairly sweet with a bitter edge and flavors of chocolate malt balls and caramel. Maybe a hint of salt.

8

Pours a deep brown black from can.. salted caramel, vanilla, oak, quite good, not overpowered

7.5

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

caramel and roasted malts in the aroma, pannepotte, toblerone.
Flavor has a lot of bitter caramel, caramelized sugar, also a lot of bitter coffeee and a decent dose of roasted malts that intensifies a lot into the aftertaste. aftertaste is hard roasted coffee and hard roasted malts. Aftertaste lingers for a long time, there are som solid juicy hops in there, but they are so well composed that they just add to the bitter malts and bitter coffee. really good ending.

8.3

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

US pint can from Left Field Beer, Solihull. Poured almost black in colour with a lasting frothy tan head. The aroma is roasted malt, salted caramel. The flavour is moderate sweet and liquorice bitter, with a smooth, rich, roasty, light salted caramel, dark chocolate, warm boozy alcohol, liquorice bitter palate. Full bodied with soft carbonation. Nicely balanced and absolutely not overly sweet.

8

Dark sweet and roasted malty with silky rich chocolate, and yeah getting some of that salted caramel vibe and interlaced with equal measures of bourbon and vanilla, full bodied, sweet dark lingering malty finish. Works really well, lovely.

8.8

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

Can. Very dark brown color with medium beige head. Aroma of dark chocolate, caramel, vanilla, milk chcolate, very ligh troasted malt. Taste is creamy with dark chocolate, light coffee, nougath, tons of vanilla, caramel, light salt. Warming alcohol.

7.9

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

Can at home. Pours black, nose is dark chocolate, toffee, vanilla, caramel, taste is similar, bitter chocolate, salty. 3.9

8.3

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Canned 8/30/24, drunk 1/27/25.
Very large, lighter-tan head is well-retained. Pretty impressive for a BA stout. Dark body, can't determine the clarity.
Lots of vanilla, soft and rich, with some salinity and acidity (roast and dark fruit) right behind it. Very chocolatey, with lots of cacao. Really getting mostly vanilla, though, as it warms and breathes. Sadly, it seems like they only put enough BA stout in this so that they could call it that, as I don't get ANY bourbon/barrel character. Though it is mellow, rounded, not sugary, not boozey, so I guess the barrel has at least done some work here.
Soft, sweeter, tons and tons of vanilla and cacao with milk chocolate galore and a medium body. It's not syrupy, nor is it thick, but it's not thin, either. There's just a pinch of bourbon character here (tannin and very minor spice) which helps elevate and balance the sweeter elements here. It's incredibly soft, supple, velvety and really, really drinkable, though you really have to like chocolate and vanilla flavors to appreciate it. Really nicely balanced with a bit more bourbon/barrel tannin emerging as it warms. No alcohol noted whatsoever. A nice change of pace from the super syrupy, motor oil BA Imperials.