Bottle from Firefly, Vancouver
Black color; medium sized creamy head. Very nice aroma of roasted malt, milky, with notes of leather and cocoa nibs. Reasonable body strength, even if more was expected; good flavor, dominated by the roasted malts, with some liquorice finish. Strong bitterness, mostly coming from the roasted malts, and still a milky trace. Very good.

500mL bottle, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma of smoked malt, with some light chocolate and vanilla notes. The flavour reveals this smoked malt upfront, with some breadiness, a little iodine but not dominating, with even subtler chocolate. Quite nice, though subpar for impy stout.

Almost black. No real head. This beer has a meaty, cheesy richness like the counter at Oyama Sausage in the Granville Island market. I probably should have used a Halifax reference, I know. There’s a gorgeous dark fruit note with a nice nutty malt accent. It’s a shade thinner than I’d like in the body but the dark fruits and sweet malts are very nice. It’s got a nice, fairly bright character, but the aroma promised more richness and in that respect I felt a little let down.

Bouteille 341ml, courtoisie de Hogtownharry. De couleur noire et opaque. Nez de malt rôti, de chocolat noir, de café, légèrement fruité (cerises, traces de raisins et de figues) et avec des notes de houblon herbeux et des petites notes de chocolat au lait et de réglisse noire. Moyennement ronde en bouche avec un pétillement moyen-bas et une texture riche, crémeuse et moynnement huileuse. Moyen goût fruité (cerises, léger de raisins, traces de figues) accompagné de notes lactiques de chocolat au lait, de traces de réglisse noire et de fumée de bois lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute un goût moyennement amer de malt assez rôti (faibles notes brûlées), de chocolat noir et avec des notes de caramel terreux et de mélasse sucrée puis progressivement un goût de café vient s’installer jusqu’en finale où l’on retrouve également un léger goût de houblon herbeux et d’alcool doux. Post-goût long, moyennement amer de rôti, de café, de chocolat noir, léger d’alcool, de houblon herbeux et de fruits (moût de cerises et de raisins).

Bottle courtesy of Okbeer: Poured a pitch-black color stout with a nice big foamy head with good retention and lacing. Aroma of bitter chocolate and subtle coffee is interesting but a tad weak. Taste of light bitter chocolate and coffee is more subtle then expected with some medium roasted malt. Body is oily and even a bit watery; I was expecting a fuller body as well as more of a creamy texture. Overall, while this is an interesting IS I thought it lack some complexity and the body was a bit too watery. I wonder if a got a bad bottle considering the high rating that this beer received or maybe I don’t appreciate the style as much as others.