looks very nice, pitch black, small smooth brown head. Super nice roasted malty aroma with licorice, wood and bourbon all there, but at decent levels leading to a very well balanced imp stout aroma. Hard to find anything I could imagine could improve the aroma. Whatever coffee there is, is also super well blended in with the rest. Flavor is not as outstanding as the aroma is. A bit salty and woody imp stoutish aroma with notes of glue, fainter notes of wood, perhaps maybe a little bit of coffee bitterness towards the end. But much more ordinary than the aroma. Still a very very potent BA imp stout, very powerful, but the flavor is not well blended, more like a bit all over the place at once. I am really split between 7 and 8 for flavor. the glue drags down, the rest is quite okay. So.. overall... Super solid imperial stout, great sipping potential, a bit glue probably from the barrel aging. plus points for a super well balanced aroma, minus points for being super potent but all over the place in the flavor. I think, perhaps, if you had this chilled, it would be less crazy and appear even smoother.