On tap at Lumencraft Chisinau Airport, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma brings out bitter coffee and toasted malt. Flavour brings out a nice toasted espresso bean character. Fairly thin on the palate, but the coffee bean flavour is quite nice. Solid.

NOV-2018. TAP at Lumencraft Pub. Batch #4, probably. Opaque black, espresso head. No sharp upfront coffee, but there's enough chocolate brownies, chocolate chip cookies - that is dark and sweet. Getting dried red berries - probably the hops - as it warms up, but still not much coffee. No prominent coffee or candies in the taste either, sweetness dialed way down - it's and almost seamless blend of lightly roast grains, spicy hop with just a whiff of red wine. In the end not much coffee (thankfully), yet a very well crafted medium body stout. 7-4-7-4-15=3,7.




MAY-2018. TAP at Lumencraft Pub/Airport. Batch #3, I think. Smooth fat dark chocolate and a complex spicy mix of higher alcohol. Great roasty spicy chocolate aftertaste and, thankfully, not much coffee. Excellent. 7-4-8-4-15=3,8.



JAN-2017. TAP at Smokehouse. Batch #1. Really dark brown, looks transparent, creamy beige head. The nose is pretty much all coffee, cocoa powder. Surprisingly strong taste, lots of coffee and cocoa candies, pretty sweet but with enough roasty balance from coffee and barley, as well some hops. Some pleasant winey notes. A touch straightforward, but not bad overall. 6-4-7-4-13=3,4.