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2005 RBSG - Nitro pour. Espresso coffee aroma, incredible. Chocolatey sweetness with intense coffee. Smooth, delicious, slight wine flavor, but overpoweringly coffee. I think I like Founders Breakfast better, but this is neck and neck.

Pours black with reddish hues. Aroma of coffee, roast, chocolate, cherries, oak, and vinous malt. Tastes of dark chocolate, floral hops, spicy pepper, and fruity tropical esters. Mouthfeel is full to heavy bodied with moderate carbonation. Very delicious.

A rich foamy coffeeish countenance. 341 ml bottle pours a deep blackish brown with cognac edges, a thick pour with tall dense dark-tan foam that soon settles in the chalice. Smell yeast sourness over rich malt and mellow cocoa-coffee notes. Sweet-roasty-sour-coffee taste with excellent dimension and balance. Toffe malt molasses coffee... deep fruity tones are there under the coffee. Finish turns up a little dry with pretty elegant coffee and nice rounded dry hops. Languorous density and fullness.. very late vanilla on finish, great overtones. Memories of every good rich Impy I’ve ever tried, but this one has a certain integrity to the bold malty tones and the way this integrates so well with the dark roast java. Comforting and subtle for such a big bold beer, which thus makes it so very French and also leagues ahead of the plainly brazen Oaked Yeti. - ADD NOTE - cask at volo presents a bit more ash flavor, and nose. Seems to lack the same density and enveloping sexy feel. Will have to compare regular Draught tomorrow, but was disappointingly ordinaire.

12 oz bottle from 2008. Pours a deep black with a large creamy/foamy deep tan head that left a bunch of sticky lacing. Aroma of coffee, cocoa, roasted malt, vanilla notes, almonds, dark bitter chocolate and light smoke. Flavor of roasted malt, milk chocolate, latte, some vanilla notes, almonds, some bitter chocolate notes, a touch of some hop bitterness and yes even more of the coffee notes. What a great beer. ABV is well hidden in both flavor and aroma.

Bottle poured an opaque black with a lasting creamy brown head with good lacing. Aromas of coffee, bitter chocolate, vanilla and roastiness. Palate was medium to full bodied and smooth. Flavors of bitter chocolate, roastiness, coffee and light vanilla with a smooth lingering bitter finish.

Bottle. The said it was coffee and coffee it was. Delicious all around. Pours an opaque mindnight black. Small tan head and a bit of lacing. Aroma is like walking into a Starbucks, but better. Lots of coffee, sweet malts and maybe a touch of fruits. As much coffee was in the aroma, it tasted like it more so!! Much coffee flavor, a good bit of malt, a touch of molasses. Wonderful mouthfeel. Divinely drinkable. I would never have guessed at the 9.5% abv.