Pours mahogany dark brown with a 2 inch maple nut brown head before Amy pours it off to give you a full pint. The aroma is rich with coffee, spice, dark wood, and delicious anticipation. The flavor is full and powerful with dark rasted bareley malt flavor dominating. The head is an intricate weave of dense rich foam. The lacing is intricate and very heavy. The pleasure is near immeasureable. Just kiddding, but it is good. Texture is thick and characteristic of a stout. Finish is a little creamy, tart, and bitter. Did I mention this beer has a veryr tart and bittersweet finish.

An imperial with a decent amount of complexity. The nitrogen produced fake head was pretty, but it gave the stout an undesired over-creaminess. Good overall, and it hides the alcohol well.

Completely opaque black color, tan head that had incredibly tiny bubbles and a smooth, spongy surface. You know how sometimes the smell or flavor of a beer brings to mind a phrase, like Abbaye de Floreffe Meilleure makes me think of ’dark bananas’? All I could think of in the smell was the phrase ’weak hops’. The flavor, however, was rather complex. I got: chocolate, licoriche, alcohol, grapes, and some whiskey toward the finish. The mouthfeel is a bit too smooth, almost slimy...plus, the effect on my palate wasn’t nearly as ruinous as a stout should be. This beer had a lot of pros and cons and it was difficult to evaluate how I felt about it overall. The complexity of the flavor carried it despite its other shortcomings.

Decent imperial....needed a bit more effervescence. Good flavor but the flavors were not as distinguishable as in other good stouts (like the imperial across town at the Bitter End). I didnt like the nitro head either...gave the beer an annoying creaminess. Decent....period.