7

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

(473ml can from L'Axe du Malt, Quebec City) Pours nearly black with a thin pale tan head. Aroma and flavour both have quite some lightly sweet and fairly bitter earthy dusty cacao and floral vanilla, macadamia nut is present on the nose and moderately mid-sip but isn't overwhelming. Malts are a bit thin, brown sugar dominated, a little roast that blends with the cacao; mid-sweet, finishing fairly dry and rather bitter, light creaminess from the lactose but not milky. Light bodied for style, a bit thin, with fairly weak carbonation. Needs a more robust body of malts to make the adjuncts pop, I think. Decent stuff.