a: dark brown body | thinnish oily head
a: soy sauce | alcohol | burnt coffee
f: bourbon | rich nuts | pitted fruits
t: licorice | strong peat | bitter finish
o: still pungent | deep roasty notes throughout | good balance - but strong!

33 cL (it says 12 ounces, but I don't think that's true) bottle | Department of Beer & Wine: Alexandria, Virginia | 25-September-2020 | US$5,39 | bottled: 20-February-2020 | sampled: just over five years later on 09-October-2025, after a nice training run for the USMC Marathon 2025

Botlled from department. Dark pour, malts chocolate etc. Mild mouth ok enough

Bottle - pours dark ruby - this beer isn’t quite sure what it wants to be - is it a dark Belgian? - an imperial stout? - a foreign export stout? - it’s kinda all three, but as a result, isn’t completely successful at being any - there’s lots of pleasant candi sugar and Belgian yeast character, but a bunch of dark malt roastiness and bitterness gets in the way of it rather than complimenting it - texture is a bit too thin for a stout and the body is kind of watery - meh - not in enjoyable, but I’m still not exactly pleased that I have three more bottles of this.

$3.49 bottle, says nothing about barrel aged or anything else to give it some sort of variant. Bottle says 11%. Bottled 1/20/21. Pours black with a dusting of a head. Nose is chocolate, roasted malt, caramel. Flavor is dark and milk chocolate, roasted malt, caramel, some buried coffee.

Tap. Pours pitch black with a light brown head. Aromas of dark chocolate, lightly smoked roasted malts, licorice, light estery notes. Taste has dark chocolate, light bready malts, licorice, subtle ashy, estery fruity.

Glass, 8-ounce, draught, drunk at Lupulus, savoured on October 12 2018; eye: black, opaque, good ring of brown head, slight lacing; nose: malt, roasting, chocolate, light acidity; mouth: malt, roasting, chocolate, light acidity, light cocoa, sourish, sourish finale with slight cocoa, medium body, average carbonation, slightly bitter, lightly sweet, a bit thin; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Verre, 8 onces, en fût, bue chez Lupulus, savourée le 12 octobre 2018; œil : noire, opaque, bon anneau de mousse brune, très légère dentelle; nez : malt, torréfaction, chocolat, légère acidité; bouche : malt, torréfaction, chocolat, légère acidité, léger cacao, aigrelet, finale aigrelette avec très léger cacao, corps moyen, carbonatation moyenne, très légèrement amère, légèrement sucrée, un peu mince; en résumé : bien

8 oz draft at the Portland Bottling location. Pitch black, thin tan head. Aroma is light charred malt, yeast, chocolate. The flavor is nice: chocolate nuanced throughout, light char, yeast in the finish. Good body and texture is proper.

Soft barley aroma with lots of dark chocolate and carbonation. Good beige head and jet black body. Flavour is nice licorice notes and motor oil hints, bitter and dark just like me! The sweet finish could be crispier. It's a nice big heavy imperial stout.