On tap in Kanda. Pours a pitch black hue with a medium white head. A big roast and licorice nose. Sweet, quite sweet, lighter roast, licorice, some dark fruit. Very good.

Bottle, mail order from the brewery. Huge coffee at first in the noseThen some dark chocolate, malt, bread. Nice but the coffee is somewhat overwhelming everything else. Black with a lacy dark brown head. Flavor is somewhat strangely very sweet and very bitter. I am getting lactose, plus lots of coffee, a touch of licorice, raisins, and a cloyingly sweet finish with way too much lactose for my tastes. Body is a bit thin and sugary. They do great stuff, and this is ok, but man, the lactose brings it down a lot.

200ml pour at the brewpub is a viscous, cola brown with a ring of beige head.  Leggy too.  Big marzipan nose, toffee, dark cocoa, licorice, figs.  Flavor is very sweet with licorice and malt and toffee and dates and figs and raisinette.  Finishes full bodied, oily.  7 4 7 4 14