Bottle shared at the January 2023 PS tasting, 1/14/23. Thought I had ticked this. Good thing I checked. Dark brown, large tan head, good retention. Aroma of raisin, cherry, chocolate, earth. Taste is roast, sunflower, cherry, oak.

Keg at Dublin's Oshkosh, Darkest Day 2022 event, 12/17/22. Dark brown, thin tan head, average retention. Aroma of chocolate, coffee, roast. Taste is roasted malt, coffee, booze. Barrel character is extremely subtle. I didn't notice it. Solid.

Aromas are slightly old resin hops with some pale malt and dry grain. Flavors are similar to nose, but not especially complimenting. Drinkable beer.

Pint can from Festival Northland, 11/28/22. Hazy orangeamber, medium frothy tan head, average retention. Aroma of grapefruit, tangerine, dank. Taste is dank, resin, onion, grapefruit. Thin. Decent.

Deep dark brown coloured body with a thick, very large and soapy, but fast-dying rich brown head that starts off at around 7 centimetres and fades to just a small layer after a few seconds. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee, oatmeal, mushrooms, earth, umami notes, a dash of soy sauce and some strong nuts towards the finish, with a great deep quality and a good amount of complexity in the nose. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong rich malts show at first with the oatmeal, grain, earth and nuts and then the rich coffee flavours hit hard with brewed coffee and some ground coffee here as well along with a rich chocolatey finish with some lactose and cream, too. Aftertaste shows some dry grain and nuts with the earthiness really coming out at the finish with a lot of bitterness from the malts and burnt notes. Overall, a pretty nice, deep and super pungent beer that has a lot of richness, most in the form of the malts, but the coffee flavours and lactose hit nicely, too. Overall, a beer that has tons of flavours, a nice richness, a strong complexity and enough of an easy-ish drinking profile to let me get through this on a middle summer day here in the Mid-Atlantic. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle, purchased from Hy-Vee [grocery] in Madison, Wisconsin on 08-August-2021 for US$1,99 sampled at my house here in Washington on 18-July-2022.

Both aromas and flavors are sour cherries, raisins and solvent. Fairly tart and kind of like a Flemish red brown made by a first-time homebrewer. Rough trade. Maybe you could cook with it.

Growler shared by Joe at the April 2022 PS Tasting, 4/10/22. Hazy amber, thin head, fair retention. Aroma of Booze, oak, vanilla, tart cherry. Taste is cherry, raisin, hints of port. A bit harsh.

Pint can from Festival Sheboygan, 3/25/22. Black, large creamy brown head, good retention. Aroma of roast, hazelnut, chocolate. Taste is roast, dark chocolate, nuts. A bit thin. Decent.

Sell-by date is 9 March 22 . The aromas are stout beer with a little bit of molasses and coffee. Coffee already seems to be getting a little old. Otherwise flavors are like nose, bittersweet with decent carbonation body and finish follows flavors. Nothing special. But okay.

12 ounce bottle from Festival Northand. 1/9/22. Hazy purple, large frothy tan head, good retention. Faint blueberry aroma. Taste is sweet berry, wheat. Juicy, bit sweet but bad.