Bottle bought through Systembolaget. Pours tiny hazy blackish dark brown with a rather small dark mocha head that quickly dissipates while leaving a small trace on the glass. Smell is malty and tiny fruity with roasted malts, heavy espresso coffee, vanilla hard candy, dark bread, burnt caramel, cocoa powder, brown sugar, toffee, coffee hard candy, hay and burnt wood. Taste is slightly sweet, bitter and tiny roasted acetic with heavily roasted malts, heavy espresso coffee, salty liquorice hard candy, moist soil, burnt caramel, toffee, alcohol, dark chocolate, vanilla fudge and banana bread. Mouthfeel is soft, velvety, round, roasted astringent and near full bodied. finish is tiny sweet, bitter and malty with roasted malts, ammonium chloride, espresso coffee, hay, burnt wood, vanilla fudge, moist soil, bitter chocolate, banana bread and alcohol. Really well done, a nice surprise! --- Beer merged from original tick of Barrantes Imperial Coffee Stout on 07 Oct 2015 at 19:18 - Score: 8. Original review text: Still holds up as a high quality coffee impy but it's high time for a new batch!!!