12 ounce bottle into snifter; no bottle dating, probably early/mid 2018. Pours dense pitch black color with a 2-3 finger dense tan head with insane retention, that reduces to a large cap that lasts. Thick creamy/soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Insane appearance. Aromas of big dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, molasses, toffee, brown sugar, roasted nuts, dark/brown bread, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes licorice, vanilla, raisin, prune, cherry, fig, date, smoke, charcoal, leather, tobacco, wood, herbal, grass, pepper, pine, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/black/roast/bready malts and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of huge dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, molasses, toffee, brown sugar, roasted nuts, dark/brown bread, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes licorice, vanilla, raisin, prune, cherry, fig, date, smoke, charcoal, leather, tobacco, wood, herbal, grass, pepper, pine, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Mild pine, herbal, woody, grassy, peppery hop; and roast/charcoal bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, molasses, toffee, brown sugar, roasted nuts, dark/brown bread, toasted biscuit, licorice, dark fruit, light smoke/char, leather, tobacco, wood, herbal, grass, pepper, pine, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Amazing complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/black/roast/bready malts and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; with an amazing roast/hop bitter/sweet balance; and no cloying, acrid, astringent flavors after the finish. Slightly increasing dryness from lingering hop/roast bitterness. Light-medium carbonation and extremely full body; with a very smooth, creamy, silky, velvety, and rich mouthfeel that is perfect. Slight slickness, sticky hops, and chalky roast. Mild increasing warmth of 10.4% after the finish. Overall this is an insane Russian imperial stout! All around amazing complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/black/roast/bready malts and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the big ABV, with the mildly bitter/drying finish. Extremely rich/well rounded imperial stout malt complexity; with restrained fruity yeast, and solid earthy hops against sweetness. A highly amazing offering, and world class/spot on style example. A lot of intense complexity, and not overly bitter/charred. Exceeded all expectations, pretty mind blowing stuff.

Bottle shared at Lucky Bamboo share. Pours a deep brown to black with a small tan head that dissipates. Cacao nib, espresso and vanilla aromas on the nose. Sweet but not cloying at all. The adjuncts work together well here. Smooth and decadent with a full-bodied flavor. Vanilla, cacao and coffee on the finish. Light roasty bitterness and slight smoke as it warms. Delicious! Super underrated brewery. --- Beer merged from original tick of Coffee Vanilla Dire Wolf on 12 Jan 2019 at 23:41 - Score: 8

Bottle via BD Online. It pours opaque black with a dark tan head. The aroma is massive on the coffee front, slick, chocolate cake, toasted coconut, mocha, rich roasted malt, sticky, bounty bar and toasted marshmallow. The taste is slick, sticky, rich roasted malt, sticky, big coffee character, chocolate cake, vanilla, toasted coconut, toasted nut, dark fruits, bitter - sweet, snickers, spice and warming booze through and chocolatey finish. Full body, fine carbonation and oily mouth feel. Rich and filthy. Sticky and flavourful. A well made adjunct impy. Moreish and tastee.