01/21/20 Tall boy from the Mills River brewery. Code stamped on the bottom: Smoker, Joker, Midnight, Mocha. Duvel tulip. Black body, brown highlights. Big, overreaching, lingering brown head. Smell is chocolate syrup, old/subtle beans, significant bourbon. Creamy, mostly flat body is mostly mellow bourbon & a lightly sweet stout. Some Ash, lingering bitterness, faint coffee. The lack of confident coffee is a big disappointment, but the feel, alcohol levels, un-crazy barrel, it ends up just being a pretty good, albeit expensive stout.

Coffee, licorice, bitter and roasted malt.