Huge brown-beige lasting head. Deep dark red barely translucent body. Roasty milky chocolatey aroma with earthy coffee notes. Sweetish mild salty earthy milky coffee and chocolate taste, balanced and harmonic. Mid-bodied. Dry roasty papery coffee aftertaste with floral notes. Nice, and unusual. (0.5l bottle, Centra, Oslo.)

Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has a salty, nori-esque tinge to it, but nothing special. I found it to be fairly weak. The flavor is pretty much non-existent, though I did note some chocolate in there on the finish, which doesn’t last long. I would recommend drinking this one at room temperature, as the flavor started to come out some more as it warmed up. The mouthfeel is nice, though... very creamy and full. Not nearly as interesting a beer as I was hoping. There’s subtle, and then there’s invisible. This one falls under the latter category.

Very deep dark ale with a nice head. The fist whiff smelled of roasted malts and chocolate, very chocolately aroma. Second whiff was more sweet, peppary with a little bit of fruit involved as well. Upon tasting it, I was very surprised. I could tell no seaweed, though I thought it was a little smokey and salty giving it a nice complexity. Of course, the roasted malts also showed themselves nicely beside the chocolate. Actually, a rather nice brew...anything but disappointing.

A deep dark brown ae, like a stout, with a thin moka head. Aroma of sweet chocolate, molasses, and light vanila. A nice sweet malt cereal taste, with roasted nuts, coffee. Medium bodied. LCBO gift set 2006. BB March 2007.

Bottle. Poured Reddish brown. Flavor was roasted malt and licorice that fades to an almost coffee like flavor.