500 ml bottle into snifter, bottled on 11/21/2017. Pours opaque dark brown/black color with a 2 finger fairly dense and rocky tan head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big juicy/tart/tangy red raspberries, fruit skin/seeds, milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, and dark/brown bread/crust; with lighter notes of licorice, molasses, raisin, plum, prune, fig, date, smoke, charcoal, leather, tobacco, herbal, grass, pepper, pine, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/black/roast/bready malts, raspberries, and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with big strength. Taste of huge juicy/tart/tangy red raspberries, fruit skin/seeds, milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, and dark/brown bread/crust; with lighter notes of licorice, molasses, raisin, plum, prune, fig, date, smoke, charcoal, leather, tobacco, herbal, grass, pepper, pine, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate pine, herbal, grassy, peppery, roast, charred bitterness; and fruit tang/tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of tart/tangy red raspberries, fruit skin/seeds, milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, dark/brown bread/crust, licorice, molasses, dark fruit, smoke, charcoal, leather, tobacco, herbal, grass, pepper, pine, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/black/roast/bready malts, raspberries, and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with an awesome hop/char bitter/sweet, and fruit tang/tartness balance; with no puckering, acrid, astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness and tart/tangy fruit. Medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, creamy, bready, grainy, sticky, chalky, acidic, tangy, tannic balanced mouthfeel that is great. Mild increasing warmth of 9.2% after the finish. Overall this is a fantastic fruited imperial stout. All around fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/black/roast/bready malts, raspberries, and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth and easy to sip on with the moderately bitter/tart/tangy/drying finish. Nicely soft, and not overdone on fruit. Fantastic balance of juicy/jammy raspberries, and rich malt complexity; with great earthy hop presence, and restrained fruity yeast. Light residual sweetness with lingering dryness. A highly enjoyable offering, and outstanding style example.

Keg at The Green Dragon, Whitby. Pours black with a thin beige head. Aromas of raspberry and chocolate, light vanilla. Strong raspberry and chocolate flavours. Rich and thick. Nice.

What a different: raspberry nose and and nice, intense coffe taste with astringent and dry finish