7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Keg at Dogtap. It pours opaque black with a medium fluffy white head. The aroma is bitter -sweet, oily, varnished wood, umami, liquorice, dark roast, burnt toast, toasted sesame, leathery, tannin and rocky road. The taste is dry, dark roasted malt, pleasing bitterness, charred, burnt toast, umami, burnt toast, permanent marker pen, bourbon, spice, almond biscotti and warming alcohol with a dry roasted malt, charred and umami with a dark roasted finish. Fulsome body and average carbonation. Fun stuff. Interesting. Not too sweet.