UPDATED: MAY 14, 2023 An old fashioned Russian Imperial Stout in a bottle that's 7 years old. Not winter at the moment but it keeps raining, so it's perfectly fine. Aroma of roasted grain, dark chocolate, coffee, red fruits, cherry, leather and tobacco. Pours creamy, beautifully black, with a creamy tan head with eternal retention and lacing. Medium bitterness, very roasty and dark. Dark chocolate, cacao nibs, coffee, cherry, blackcurrant, leather and tobacco. Dry finish, no sweetness whatsoever. Clean. Not too thick body (I guess due to age), low carbonation, a lot of booze heat, but rather smooth. Cellar beer with its age, body as expected in a 7 y.o. bottle, but well kept and with layers of flavours. Solid.

UPDATED: JUL 14, 2021 Bottle. Black with a medium sized brown head. Aroma: Dark roast coffee, dark chocolate, burnt toast, caramel and malt. Taste: Intense roasted flavors. Bitter with modest sweetness to balance. Slightly on the bitter/roasted side but still nice

UPDATED: JUL 18, 2020 Liquide noir avec mousse très courte. Nez vineux. En bouche, c'est une attaque cerise sauvage et baies noires puis apparaît un côté bois vert avec une belle amertume. Très beau travail !!!

UPDATED: APR 25, 2020 66cl fles. Helder donker bruin van kleur, fijne romige bruine schuimkraag. De geur is chocolade en cacao. Smaak is zoet, koffie, chocolade en gedroogd fruit. Medium body en veel koolzuur.

UPDATED: APR 14, 2020 16oz bottle share at The Bier Stein, Eugene, OR on 21/08/2008. A thick and decadent Impy stout. Some sweeter liquorice and treacle flavours mixed with coffee and burnt malt. Good mouthfeel.

UPDATED: NOV 23, 2019 On tap @ Brody's The Hague. Poured black with two finger tan head. Aroma: lots of deep roasted espresso, vanilla, dark fruit, caramel, licorice, roasted malts. Taste: dark roasted espresso beans, dark bitter chocolate, licorice, vanilla, caramel, plums, raisins, Sweet roasted malts. Medium body. Expected a little more of the mouthfeel which was kind of watery to my tastes. Roasted bittersweet finish. Pretty good!

(nez > hop, bouche moyenne, h2o dès milieu, pas « riche-intense", pas ~"thick", last arf, columbus mal assorti)

UPDATED: NOV 9, 2020 Hint of vanilla, cocos, cocoa, and dried fruit aroma. Perfect dry fruity taste. You would not think that this is a strong ale. Bravo!

UPDATED: AUG 9, 2018 65cl Bottle @ Beergium, Le Roeulx, Belgium. Black colour with a thin tan head. Aroma is roasted malt, chocolate, sweet, coffee, alcohol. Taste is roasted malt, milk chocolate, caramel, coffee, nuts, alcohol. Full body, soft carbonation.

Aroma is quite sweet though, chocolate, coffee and an aura of slightly burnt malts. Taste also carries already mentioned chocolate notes, a wee hint of licorice and burnt coffee. Actually, the burnt coffee notes almost turns acidic. That plays well with the earlier, sweeter notes. Finish is light ashy and dry. As solid as it gets, and a good counterweight towards todays modern pastry stouts.