Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

750 ml bottle. Pours a jet black color with a small beige head. A big sweet nose, massive sweet malts, vanilla and roast. The flavor is very sweet, sugary, brown malts, big licorice, this is very drinkable. I agree that no way this is 17%- more like 9 or 10. If it is 17% it is amazingly chill and somehow I drank a 750 without getting hammered. Very milky, big lactose milk sugars and somehow tastes a bit under-attenuated. Overall though, this is a great beer.