Dark brown. No head. Has a nice pasilla note, rich chocolate, and some light coffee. Complex palate - a really rich base beer, with a touch of orange, a hint of honey, earthy pasilla, and more chocolatey, toasty notes. Complex, smooth, good body, and the elements are all in balance. Tasty stuff.

12 ounce can into snifter; no can dating, but is a recent release. Pours dense pitch black color with a 2 finger fairly dense and fluffy dark tan head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Spotty foamy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, molasses, toffee, honey, brown sugar, marshmallow, fudge, tangerine peel, chili pepper, and toasted dark bread; with lighter notes of nuttiness, licorice, dark fruit, smoke, charcoal, leather, tobacco, wood, vanilla, and roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, cocoa/spices, and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with great strength. Taste of big dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, molasses, toffee, honey, brown sugar, marshmallow, fudge, tangerine peel, chili pepper, and toasted dark bread; with lighter notes of nuttiness, licorice, dark fruit, smoke, charcoal, leather, tobacco, wood, vanilla, and roast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate roast/char and herbal/woody hop bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, molasses, toffee, honey, brown sugar, marshmallow, fudge, tangerine peel, chili pepper, toasted dark bread, smoke, charcoal, leather, tobacco, wood, light licorice/dark fruit, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, cocoa/spices, and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a great roast/hop bitter/sweet balance; and no acrid/astringent roast/hop/spice flavors after the finish. Slightly increasing dryness from hop/char bitterness. Medium carbonation and full body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready/grainy, and lightly slick/sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 12%. Minimal pepper spice/heat, but nice flavor presence. Overall this is an excellent spiced imperial stout. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, cocoa/spices, and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to drink for the big ABV. Feels very similar to most other Evil Twin stouts I've had on the fruity/molasses/leathery flavor complexity. Very well balanced between all flavors. Plenty of roast/char malts, without being astringent or overly bitter/drying. A very enjoyable offering.

12 oz can shared at Spacebar, thanks Matt! 3 ounces or so in a snifter. Black with light tan head. Aromas of peppers, dark chocolate, light roast. Tastes of dark chocolate, spicy peppers, roasty notes. Medium full body with a dry finish. Pepper heat lingers. Great if you're into spicy beers and stouts.