Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

Pint can pours with a deep dark chocolate colored body that supports a thin mocha colored head of foam. The aroma offers up loads of dark fruity esters with plum and fig and pear and then moving into a thin cloud of chocolate. The taste delivers the same sweet dark fruity esters as this is an ester forward stout. Oh my. Restrained yet forward. I get the same array of sweet plum, fig and pear but then firm chocolate notes hit heading to midway. To midway and into the finish a dash of caramel is noticed as slick smooth sweet malt bubble to the surface. Toward the finish the malts and chocolate team up with a moderate booziness to take this into the finish. I dig a estery big ballsy stout like this. No pancakes or phantasm needed here. Great sipper.