Butelka 650ml. Czarne, oleiste jak ropa przy nalewaniu z niewielką, brązową pianą. Aromat intensywny z nutami czekolady, pralin z wyraźną, acz przyjemną, nutą szlachetnego alkoholu. Gładkie w smaku, czekoladowe z akcentem, rozgrzewającego alkoholu i długim leciutko gryzacym, czekoladowo-kakaowym posmakiem. Świetne degustacyjne piwo.

Glass, 6-ounce, draught, on the premise, savoured on September 29 2017; eye: straw, good effervescence, ring of off-white head, light lacing; nose: banana, wheat, slight clove; mouth: banana, wheat, slight clove, light acidity, finale in banana with presence of acidity, light body, good carbonation, slightly fleshy texture; overall: fine

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Bouteille brune, 1 pinte 6 onces, savourée le 29 septembre 2017; œil : noire, opaque, mousse brun foncé évanescente qui se transforme en un petit anneau, très légère dentelle; nez : malt torréfié, café, alcool, très léger malt brûlé; bouche : malt torréfié, café, alcool, très léger malt brûlé, houblon amérisant, intense, finale en houblon amérisant avec présence de café, corsée, carbonatation moyenne, curieusement amère, texture râpeuse; en résumé : bien

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65 cl bottle @ Ruoholahti Beer Festival 2018
Aroma has cocoa, bourbon and some chocolate. Flavour has licorice, chocolate, bourbon tones and wood. A nice slow sipper, the high ABV is relatively well hidden here.

650ml bottle @ Ruoholahti Beer Festival. Heavy, boozy and stingy with some roastiness, coffee, chocolate, cocoa and licorice. Quite intense and massive.

Bottle from Beergium. Totally black beer with brown head. Intensive aroma has malts, chocolate, coffee, dark fruits, licorice and alcohol. Taste has dark malts, plum, raisins, strong licorice, some coffee and chocolate. Alcohol is warming but doesn't exist otherwise. Full body, soft, sweet, enjoyable!

Holy hell what a stout, an oversized behemoth of a brew, concentrated sheer imperial stout aggression channeled into twenty-two ounces of viscous, boozy joy. Dark chocolate, vanilla, caramel, anise, hints of raisin and dried apricot, notes of char and burnt coffee, both intimately sweet and intensely dry, a massive rollercoaster of an imperial stout that starts out indulgent and friendly and ends with a vicious clingy bitterness that leaves you begging for another sip. Pours with a chunky, melted-milkshake thickness that oozes into the glass black and foreboding, leaving a dark brown head and modest lacing. Glorious imperial stout nose, rich and deep and welcoming yet also subtly sinister, full of chocolate and coffee with loads of booze creeping around the periphery. As full bodied as a beer can be, and also very warm--might be its only fault, and that's only because I'm drinking it too fresh. Damn, Hoppin' Frog. You guys make great stouts.

Bottle @ home. Pours like motoroil: thick and pitch black - but with a brown head, a small layer retention. Aroma's: roast, salmiak, some red fruit, sweet, a bit roasty and/or alcoholic sour. Retronasal it's roasted, light sweet, coffee, alcohol, salmiak. Flavor is moderate sweet, roasted, chocolatey, drop. Strong alcohol feel, burning in the mouth and throat, mellowing after a while. Full bodied. Soft mouthfeel. Long finish with big roast, ash, wood.