Can at home. Pours black, nose is chocolate, caramel, almond, hazelnut, taste is similar, chewy, nutty, dry finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of 64|Imperial Stout - Praline, Cocoa Nibs & Sea Salt - 10th Birthday Edition on 26 Jan 2023 at 16:06 - Score: 8

A deep dark porter with a thin lacing mocha head. In aroma, sweet chocolate malt with dark fruits, soy sauce, light coffee, pleasant. In mouth, a nice chocolate malt with dark fruits, licorice, light coffee notes, alcohol warmth, very nice and smooth. On tap at brewery.

A hazed pinkish ale with a thin lacing off white head. In aroma, sweet fruity malt with loads of blackberry jam, light acidity, light grassy hops, pleasant. In mouth, sweet fruity malt with light raspberry jam, light acidity, light buttery notes, OK. On tap at brewery.

A lightly hazed golden pils with a thick frothy creamy lacing white head. In aroma, nice crisp biscuit malt with grassy German hops, light mineral notes, pleasant. In mouth, a nice biscuit malt with grassy German hops, light mineral notes, very nice and crisp. On tap at brewery.

Opaque dark brown beer, small tan head. Smooth palate, mildly dry, decent fine carbonation. Smooth dark malts, the rich smooth coffee is rich and rounded with a nice depth. Yeah a mild bourbon vibe but also a bit of a red wine vibe, albeit very mild. Trace of dark chocolate. Smooth and semi dry finish. Another accomplished coffee beer from BBN.

1/3 pint draft @ BBNO Bermondsey.
Dorée pâle, col crémeux blanc-cassé.
Arôme est houblonné marqué - fruité, pot-pourri, fruité sec, aubépine, agrumes - avec qcq pointes de tropical. La base maltée confère à cette bière un rappel sur une pale ale.

Palais sur une surprise houblonnée, ne connaissant aucun de ces trois houblons. Ces trois sont de variété anglaise. Je note un caractère malté pâle-pils accompagné par les houblons - ici, des notes fleuries/fruitées - un peu poussiéreux, pot-pourri, note épicée, baies verte/groseille verte, pétal de fleur avec un fruité délicat sur les agrumes - confit, un peu confit.

Another barrel aged imperial stout by this familiar English craft brewery, now on apricot brandy barrels – or ‘eau de vie’ as the French say, something you do not often see even with all that global barrel ageing hype of the present day. Open, pale greyish beige, moussy, thin ring over a jet black beer. Aroma of peach curd and fruit-filled chocolates, caramel sauce, molten black chocolate, sirop de Liège, tawny port, brandy, vanilla-scenting oak (strong), brown rum, treacle, walnut oil, faint soy sauce, dates. Dense, sweet onset, candied dates and yellow raisins, fig jam, light soy sauce effect (so tad more ‘umami’ than the cognac barrel aged ‘impy’ from the same brewery I had immediately before this one), soft carb, very oily, full, rather syrupy body. Dense black chocolate sauce, toffee and hazelnut paste ensue, with a light cappuccino-like bitterish touch to it but remaining primarily sweet; lots of vanilla from the oak wood retronasally, paired with an almost equally strong amount of eau de vie – albeit unrecognizable in terms of fruit, mostly adding a certain spiciness and vague sweetness, next to, of course, obvious booziness. Sticky, thick and sweet till the end – more so than that cognac barrel aged imperial stout I mentioned earlier – and perhaps even a bit much so for its own good, hindering drinkability, but a complex, layered, indulgent, postmodern style ‘impy’ nonetheless.

Keg @ Brew by Numbers brewery, Bermondsey. Dark pour, tan head. Roasty espresso nose. Seems more coffee present here than vanilla, gentle chocolate, very distant coconut influence. More coconut and vanilla would've been welcome.

Keg @ Brew By Numbers Brewery, Bermondsey. Vivid pinkish red pour, no head. Light, juicy.. softly sour.. with pleasant berry notes, very distant pear. More pear would've been welcome.