Pleasant heavy roast impy. Crazy coconut character. Decadent and lovely!

Bottle courtesy of Michael! Thank you! Pours viscous black with a small mocha head that leaves some sparse trace on the glass while dissiapting. Smell is malty with roasted malts, burnt caramel, toffee, charred wood, dark roast coffee, dark chocolate, bbq banana with chocolate syrup, roasted coconut, moist soil and bourbon alcohol. Taste is sweet, bitter, malty and nutty. Mouthfeel is viscous, round, oily, tiny astringent, slightly oily, boozy and near full bodied. Finish is sweet, bitter, malty and nutty with roasted malts, caramel, toffee, coffee, chocolate, coconut, moist soil and bourbon alcohol. Crazy intense and decadently tasty!

22 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled in 5/2016. Pours crystal clear very dark brown color with a 1-2 finger dense and fluffy khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of huge caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, biscuit, chocolate, cocoa, vanilla, toffee, bourbon, toasted oak, nuttiness, light coffee/dark fruit, and oak/roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt and bourbon barrel notes; with great strength. Some slight booziness as well. Taste of huge caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, biscuit, chocolate, cocoa, vanilla, toffee, bourbon, toasted oak, nuttiness, light coffee/dark fruit, and oak/roast/toasted earthiness. Light roasted bitterness and bourbon/oak spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, biscuit, chocolate, cocoa, vanilla, toffee, bourbon, toasted oak, nuttiness, and oak/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Incredible complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and bourbon barrel flavors; with a great roasted bitter/sweet and oak spiciness balance; and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Light-medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready, and lightly slick/silky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is awesome. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a small warmth lingering after the finish; with slight booziness. Overall this is an incredible imperial brown ale! All around fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and bourbon barrel flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the huge ABV. This was a lot more barrel forward and a bit more roasty on the malt character than the Lil’ Griz. A highly enjoyable offering.

Bottle at the beach in Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness next to a campfire. Very dark brown with fizzy light brown head. Lots of bourbon and chocolate, coconut, vanilla, coffee, very sugary and boozy. Very sweet and some boozy bitterness. Almost full bodied with fizzy carbonation. Not the ideal circumstances for a beer as it was quite warm so will rerate this later, but I quite enjoyed it then. Bottle at THT August. Still about the same even though it’s nicer when it’s not hot!

650 ml bottle from trade with RobertDale. Thank you Bob!! Black color with beige brown head. Malty aroma, roasted, sweet, chocolate, cocoa, fruity, dark dried fruits, vanilla, spicy like cinnamon, wood, alcohol. Heavy sweet taste like aroma. Almost full silky oily to creamy body with soft carbonation. It gets much better when it warms up.

22 oz bottle. Pours deep red brown with a light tan head. Bourbon aroma with cocoa, roasty, molasses. Nice smooth bourbon, cocoa, molasses flavors, breakfast cereal maltiness. Definitely a lot of boozy bourbon in here; it’s well done and I really like it.