8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tall US can @ Benzai's Anti-Carnival Valentine's Day Tasting, Feb 26. Pours pitch black with a deep tan head. Prominent coffee nose. Big coffee presence to taste alongside deep chocolate layers, confident roast.. great complexity.. proper.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Mar 2026
at 09:59
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
16oz can from Alesmith. Nose is cinnamon, apples, chocolate, and a bready note with a hint of coffee. Black with a medium tan head. Flavor is moderately sweet like you’re eating a piece of apple pie with a cup of coffee.
Tried
from Can
at
AleSmith Brewing Company
on 05 Mar 2026
at 00:25
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
US can @ Benzai's Anti-Carnival Valentine's day tasting, Feb 26. Pours black, deep tan head. Big speedway coffee and roast on the nose. Flavour profile brings soft roast, layered chocolate, mild cakey elements, medium bodied.. not detecting the coconut or pecans, but lovely beer all the same.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Mar 2026
at 19:37
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
473ml can, 2024 rebrew "From the Archives" edition, canned 8th March 2024.
Pours pitch black with a thin dark brown head.
Aroma dominated by vanilla, plus chocolate, coffee, bourbon.
Taste is again dominated by sweet creamy vanilla, rich coffee and chocolate, bourbon, oak, and some pretty warming boozy notes, roasty bitterness.
Full bodied, quite thick for a BA stout, very smooth silky mouthfeel.
A little boozy, but seriously tasty stuff!
Pours pitch black with a thin dark brown head.
Aroma dominated by vanilla, plus chocolate, coffee, bourbon.
Taste is again dominated by sweet creamy vanilla, rich coffee and chocolate, bourbon, oak, and some pretty warming boozy notes, roasty bitterness.
Full bodied, quite thick for a BA stout, very smooth silky mouthfeel.
A little boozy, but seriously tasty stuff!
Tried
from Can
from Left Field Beer
on 03 Mar 2026
at 23:27
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft. Amber beer with a cream head. Light grapefruit aroma with light tropical fruit. Grapefruit and tropical fruit flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and tropical fruit linger.
Tried
on 03 Mar 2026
at 22:51
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft. Nitro. Black beer with a tan nitro head. Coffee and chocolate aroma. Coffee and chocolate flavor. Medium bodied. Coffee and chocolate linger with light caramel.
Tried
on 03 Mar 2026
at 22:47
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Draft. Black beer with a tan head. Chocolate and bourbon aroma with vanilla. Chocolate and orange flavor with vanilla and bourbon. Medium-plus bodied. Chocolate and orange linger with vanilla and bourbon.
Tried
on 03 Mar 2026
at 22:45
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can from Øltanken at home 03/03/2026 Dark roasted malty with prominent notes of coffee roast, cocoa, ashy burnt roast, pretty decent AF version of the original, but still think I prefer Guinness 0.0 overall as my goto AF stout.
Tried
from Can
from
Øltanken.dk
on 03 Mar 2026
at 10:37
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
16 oz can purchased as a single at The Wine Thief & Ale Jail in Crystal, Minnesota. The pour is an opaque black brown with a ½ inch khaki head that falls quickly. The aroma is bright banana, clove, and under the fruit a hint of roast. The taste is roast malt, soy, caramel, cream, banana fruit and char roast. The palate is medium to heavier boded, soft natural carbonation and the banana caramel cream sweet to the finish. As with others, nice integration of flavors mask the high ABV well. This was a pretty weird version, as it warmed tasted like banana now and later.
Tried
from Can
from
The Wine Thief & Ale Jail - Crystal
on 03 Mar 2026
at 01:17
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Black with a brown head - Dark malt , coffee and some spicy notes in the aroma - Dark malt body with some coffee and some spicy flavours - Malt and some spicy flavours goes into the finish - This was good
Tried
from Can
on 02 Mar 2026
at 17:15