A pitch black beer with a huge chocolate brown head. The aroma is of coffee, chocolate, alcohol, blueberries and roasted malt. The flavor is great, roasted malt, lots of bitter chocolate, coffee, toffee, raisins, prunes, plums, slight notes of smoke, and hints of the alcohol on the palate and in the aftertaste where it blends well with the bitter notes from the roasted malt. A great beer.

Greige, dense head; jet-black beer. Beautiful Schwarzwald cake nose, with loads of cocoa, blueberries, cream and the whole shebang. Initial bitterness in the taste, combined with roasted malts, with good cigar ash aroma, black chocolate, then ever so slowly gliding towards the sweet. Well-bodied. I have difficulty believing 9.3 %. Fusels, no doubt. I drank a "Zywiec traditional old porter" some years ago. If this is the same, I'll eat my shoes. Or they have awfully bettered their techniques in Poland.