Pours deep mahogany into a snifter. Milk chocolate and cream aromas. Medium bodied with spicy latte and chocolate upfront turning to peppered espresso in the lasting finish.

Bomber from Julio’s Liquors. Label reads bottled October 2015, always appreciate the bottle dating. Pitch black color with head that died very fast. Aroma is deep vanilla beans, roasted grain and hints of hot peppers.

Roasted grain backbone with a leaner body for an imperial stout. What I do enjoy is the hot/ spicy peppers help balance the sweet chocolate, vanilla bean and sugar in this stout. So overall the Mexican hot chocolate theme works here. The scotch bonnet pepper never gets overwhelming and helps cut the sweetness. I do wonder if they used lactose sugar in this stout because after all not everyone can have lactose. Will I be sitting on porcelain later this evening??