Bottled. Opaque pour not much head. Surprisingly well balanced, hint of berries with chocolate and bitters.

Guava nose. Clear amber, ultra fine floaties, medium sticky head. Papaya, tree bark, hibiscus, bread crust. Medium body, easy carbonation. Complex, but disjointed.

Bright gold pour. Even lace, nice and creamy, around the rim and in the glass. Citrus and sweet notes of other fruit with rind or pith palate. Medium bodied and light carbonation.

Tap at Stone Kettner. Pours orange gold with a white head. Aroma is dankish with citrus and pale stone. Medium body. Dry and bitter. Darkish with biting citrus and pale fruit. How did they do that?

Flight at Stone Brewing Tap Room - Kettner, San Diego, CA, USA. Pours orange gold, medium hazy, with fine white foam. Aroma is highly fruity and hoppy, tropical and grapefruit. Body is average, with fine, delicate carbonation. Taste is medium-high bitter. Final is average in intensity, but with nice persistence and bitterness.

Orange tinged yellow beer, slightly hazy, with dense white head. Grapefruit aroma is faint. Taste is pine and grapefruit, finish is medium bitter.

Taster on tap at Stone Bistro And Gardens, Escondido, Ca. Dark brown with little head. Roasted malts, vanilla, caramel, coffee.

Deep dark brown coloured body with a thinnish, pure deep brown coloured head, about three to four centimetres tall. Aroma of pure roasted malt, a ton of coffee and bitter grain notes along with some lactose, a dose of tobacco and a hint of the vanilla and caster sugar towards the end - quite strong, even at 2+ years old (from purchase date, even). Full-bodied; Deep super roasty and burnt coffee flavours hit hard with some lighter lactose and a dose more of the caramel, vanilla and especially tobacco flavours that have a lot of bitterness resident, all the while, with a super mild spicey notes - which is nice and shows some decent flavours, but a touch strong throughout, even at 2+ years aged to mellow out these pungent notes. Aftertaste shows some more pungent roasty and vanilla notes with a dose of peat and smoked flavours towards the end - still quite strong and incredibly pungent. Overall, a decent Imperial Stout that still shows way too much potency and pungent flavours, at 2 years, which is completely atypical and bad in terms of the beer and if you had it anywhere close to 'fresh'. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Whole Foods in Fair Lakes, Fairfax, Virginia on 28-January-2017 for US$8,99 sampled two years later (plus a day) exactly on the 29th-January-2019 during a bit of snow and a 'polar vortex' (nothing).