Bomber. Pours a jet black color with a medium white head. A big smoke and chocolate nose. Very sweet roasted malts, cocoa, some ash, big vanilla, silky, some metallic roast. Quite good. Lingering metallic bite. Really sweet. No heat at all.

Bottle. Pours with a black hued body and a lasting tan head. Great lace. Aromas are of molasses, nutty, brown sugar, roasty, earthy, slightly dirty, baked bread, light esters, rotten fruit. Maybe a hint of coffee. Flavors are of chocolate, massive roast, a touch of dark roast acidity that greatly intensifies as it warms. Bready, and bitter. Gets quite acidic as it warms. Very lively carbonation, a bit carbonic, medium bodied. Didn’t realize there was coffee in it, but sharing it at a friend’s brewery, the acidity as it warmed prompted us to pull out a pH meter. Maybe it is the coffee, maybe it is an early infection, but 3.35 is a VERY low reading for an imperial stout.