This was a treat. Black as night with a massive brown head. Roasted malts and chocolates intermingle with faint sourness and a wine like character. A similar set of flavors in the thick body.

Batch 265. Pours pure black with a huge, lacy, chocolate-brown head. Chocolate and roast coffee aroma with some tart notes. Flavor is roasty chocolate, quite dry, with vinous, fruity tartness in the middle and a long tart-chocolate finish. Very tasty and very drinkable, only knock is that it’s a little thin and fizzy for a stout. Otherwise great.

Bottle, batch 266.<br /> Huge brown head, pitch black body. The lacing is just incredible. Chocolate, roasty, coffee into cherries, tart with some JP funk coming through stronger as it warms, some oak and some caramel on the nose. When cold it starts out smelling like a solid coffee/chocolately stout, but after letting it breath the tartness comes much more to the fore. Much the same in flavor, strong chocolate, coffee, tart and funky and vinous. Some grapes. Not very sweet. The wild yeasts have dried this out wonderfully. Quite tannic, with very nice carbonation. Very good funky stout.

Bottle. Batch 265. Blackish beer with a tan head. Chocolate, light roast aroma with slight tartness. Roasty, tart flavor with light chocolate, light fruitiness, and some oak. Medium-plus bodied. Tartness lingers with roast, malt, grain, and chocolate. It’s good and very drinkable, but it’s crying out for just a bit of bourbon.

750ml. bottle. Poured extremely dark, very dark tan head as well. Smell a little hops in the nose, dark malts of course. Bitter taste, lingers for awhile, not too bitter though. Kind of thin.