Pours black, small, nearly no head. Smell is intense maple, slightly roasty. Taste is full, heavy roast, but balanced. Somewhat chocolaty. Toward the end, a blast of maple takes over the complete taste. It's coffee like aspect works very well with the medium sweetness of the basebeer. Vanilla is recognizable, but far less intense. Lower carbonation, full body. Very nice maple stout. Could perhaps be improved by even more body, and perhaps a nutty side-taste to complex things a bit more. But as is, straight up maple, I'm a big fan already.

Canned, 473 ml shared with Miro B and Max. Black with brownish head. Chocolate, maple, coffee, vanilla, some bitterness, quite sweet. Medium to full bodied.

473ml can. Hazy, orangey golden colour with average, frothy to creamy, slowly osteoporosing, moderately lacing, white head. Sweet-ish pale malty, tropical fruity and slightly piney, grassy, hoppy aroma, hints of mango, some orange, lemon, a touch of honey. Taste is citrusy hoppy, sweet-ish pale malty, notes of orange, mandarine, some lemon, a bitter zesty touch, some grass, some pine, some floral honey. Oily-watery texture, minimally cloying palate, fine, prickly carbonation, lingering, sweet-ish malty and bitter, citrusy hoppy finish. Rich and complex, superbly balanced (with quite ponderous weight on both scale pans), harmonious, nice subtleties as well. Well crafted and all anyway - the selection and composition of malts seems to me extraordinarily serendipitous in this case. Very good!

2019 Bottle shared at Blind Stout Share. Pours a pitch black with a small bit of brown head that dissipates. Lots of baker's chocolate on the nose with some prune and raisin with bourbon as it warms. Oak and big deep, rich chocolate notes on the palate, coupled with milk chocolate underneath. Quite thick and viscous visually and on the palate. Lingering bourbon, oak and chocolate. A beast of a beer.

Blind ranking personal results:
#1 Toppling Goliath - Barrel Slayer
#1 Ellison / Barclay / Watkins - Four Horsemen
#3 Hailstorm - Vlad vs. Zombie vs. Shark (2019)
#4 Cerebral - Here be Monsters (Batch 2 11/2017)
#5 Goose Island - BCBS (2019)
#6 Jackie O's / Side Project - Appervation

4.1. Wchuj tych jagod, dominuja calosc. Beczka i czekokawowe klimaty troche nikna. W odbiorze leciutkie piwerko. Chlalne. Acz malo ciala trudno nazwac zaleta...

Taster at Standard market, because there’s no way I can manage a second pint, let alone their Liter steins. Deep brown color, a thin layer of foam inside a ring around the edges. Yes, I’m giving it a “5” because I’m happy to see these autumnal colors. Dang it if I can’t get much of a nose right now, as my own nose picked this time to get stuffy. But certainly nothing untoward is leaping out at me. Taste is rich and malty, with notes of pipe tobacco (like I’ve ever tasted pipe tobacco…) also notes of plum and caramel. Dark German malts usually make me think of smoke, but I have none of that here. Admittedly, this is after a pint of Oktoberfest beer, but this one stands well enough on its own I like finding this solid bock on tap to break a few of the rules of an Oktoberfest beer time.