UPDATED: JUL 11, 2023 July 2023. Bright bottled by LCB. This is a Goldilocks beer. It's just right. Smooth, tasty, and boozy. I do like a strong malty dark beer. And this is just that. Nice one. [4.0]

UPDATED: FEB 26, 2023 Growler from LCB. It pours pretty much black, opaque with a nice sturdy light brown head. The aroma is sweet and unctuous, milk chocolate, creamy, cookies & cream Ben & Jerry's, nuttiness, caramac, reisen chocolate chew and light coffee. The taste is dry, toasty, rich roasted malt, earthy roast, coffee grounds, touch of charred toast, bitter - sweet, milk chocolate, cookies & cream, touch of peppery spice and nip of warming alcohol booze with a dry, toasty finish. Medium+ body and fine, foamy carbonation. Strikes a nice balance, never too sweet. Nice condition also. Really can't complain.

UPDATED: DEC 20, 2022 Can. A black beer with a dark brown head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, dark chocolate, and a bit of caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, dark chocolate, and a bit of caramel and lactose, leading to a bitter finish.

UPDATED: JUL 31, 2022 Can from LCB, pours jet black and thick, with a settling tan foam and a burnt milk and roasted malt nose. Burnt sugars and a creamy-sweet texture, black treacle and a touch of dark fruit. Sticky-sweet and burnt-bitter, yeah, a creamy Impy Stout.

UPDATED: MAY 29, 2022 Can from Low Cost Beer. A black coloured pour with a healthy beige head on top. Rich, roasty, malty, chocolate, coffee taste/aroma. This was quite sweet but also very well made. A quality stout from New Zealand.

UPDATED: MAY 25, 2022 Can thanks to allmyvinyl. Appearance - Nose - smoke up front and then earthy and savoury, possibly olives. Taste - chocolate cake then tapenade and light smoke. Chewy nougat atthe back. Palate - medium bodied and chewy middle. Dry finish. Overall - very complex if a touch gnarly. Worth chewing through it though.

UPDATED: MAY 25, 2022 Can from the Low Cost Beer online shop. Pours black with a thin tan head. Aromas of black olive, cereal, light roast, light milk chocolate. Taste is more of the same. Roasted bitter finish.

UPDATED: MAY 25, 2022 can at James... dark black... thin tan head... soft sweet chocolate.. rich malts nose... Light chocolate.. too much cereal... dark Roast

UPDATED: MAY 5, 2022 Can from EeBria, consumed 1 month before BBE. This is a superb stout with layers of flavour with a nice hoppy bitter kick in the finish. Look: Near black with small tanned head with some fizz. Aroma: liquorice, toffee, lactose, dark sweet malts. Taste: sweet, liquorice, milk chocolate, toffee, light roast, berries, herbal bitter finish. Palate: Medium to full bodied, smooth with a soft carbonation

UPDATED: FEB 8, 2022 N'étant pas le plus grand fan des milks stouts, j'appréhendais quelque peu cette dégustation. L'effet 'Double Cream' ne fut, comme je m'y attendais, pas convaincant pour moi. Ceux qui aiment la douceur seront bien servis par contre avec un lactose bien présent. Cela donne néanmoins une texture, suave, très agréable. Les arômes quant à eux, bien que d'une bonne intensité, sont peu complexes : caramel, chocolat et pointe café au programme. Le visuel est sur un brun foncé quasi noir avec une mousse brune crémeuse qui s'estompe trop rapidement. Le nez sur le trio chocolat, caramel et café est relativement plat mais sympathique. Le caramel ressort sur le trio. En bouche c'est la douceur et une petite astringence qui marquent en premier. La corpulence est très bonne. L'alcool, à 8,1 % ne permet pas de contrebalancer, tout comme l'amertume. L'ensemble est très linéaire et homogène. A noter tout de même de légère épices et des traits de charbon qui apparaissent. Pas mon trip.