Draft. A- Coffee, chocolate, roasty. A- Black color, black liquid, brown head. T- Coffee, mocha. P- Full body, average texture, average carbonation, balanced finish. O- Very lovely. Straightforward with strong notes of black coffee and slightly sweet chocolate. About as good as a coffee stout is going to get. Wish this was canned and readily available.

Deep dark brown coloured body with a very rich, super deep dark brown colour as well - quite opaque, perhaps around 90% with an oily layer on top when most of the head has faded, but a very ugly lace on the side of the glass of said head. Aroma of tons of roasted malt, star anise, coffee, chocolate (deep, ~80% cacao), vanilla, peat, light smoke and a dose of heavier wood and astringent notes come through, but the vanilla and anise are strong and the coffee is the strongest. Full-bodied; Super rich and dense malt flavours with raisins, figs and pure caramel very noticeable, along with some pungent nutty and earthy flavours with a lot of anise around, but the vanilla and lactose flavours are sublime and very dense, with the strongest notes from the alcohol, the chocolate and yes, the coffee - pungent throughout and the alcohol is quite noticeable. Aftertaste shows the coffee, vanilla, lactose, oak, peated malts and some chocolate sweetness towards the end, but this is heavy, dense and a touch cloying towards the end. Overall, a very nice Imperial Stout that could probably use some good aging, but wasn't available for me to do (crowler), and was nice to sample fresh, even in the midst of summer. Good to sample, and well worth trying to find, especially if you like the style and if you like coffee, as well, since that is the strongest flavour throughout. I sampled this thirty-two ounce fill (into a crowler) from draught at BrewTopia in Omaha, Nebraska on 27-June-2018 for US$12 (listed as 11,0% abv) sampled at home in Washington, halfway across this fine country on 09-July-2018.