Mikkeller Barrel Aged Black as Coal

Entered to celebrate my rating number 14,400. Draft and bottled. A pitch black beer with a hug dark brown head - maybe the darkest brown head I’ve ever seen. The aroma has notes of sweet malt, roasted malt, alcohol, chocolate, and wood. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of sugar like dextrose, roasted malt, alcohol, dark bitter chocolate, and coffee, as well as medium notes of wood, leading to a dry woody and alcoholic finish. The alcohol and hops tickles the palate.

Black of color with a small beige head. An aroma of alcohol, liqurice and coffee. A flavor of liqurice, alcohol, bitter and hops.

EBF08. Pours black with a cream bead. Aroma is dark malt, chocolate, coffee black fruit. This is also very vineous. Flavour vi vineous, coffee, chocolate and liquorish.

[Bottle, thanks Marsiblursi!] Pours dark brown with a nice brown head. Aroma is kind of odd and sweet, with honey, herbal qualities and smoke. The taste is sweet as well, then oak, a little smoke, and then malt and chocolate blend together. Medium mouthfeel, and has long finish. Overall, this was a pretty quality barrel-aged imperial stout, and something that I would like to try again in a little bigger bottle. Thanks again, Marsiblursi!

Courtesy of madmitch76. Pours very dark with short lived dark brown head. The aroma is full bold oakiness with creamy molasses, toffee, coffee and dark chocolate. The taste is effervescence pushing up notes of burnt molasses, toffee and coffee. To midway rich velvety dark chocolate and oak join the other rich flavors along with a decent level of booze. It becomes smooth rich nectar sweet into the finish. WOW!

HUGE thanks to Ibrew2or3 for the share. Pours a rediculous black with a near black head. Nose is BOOZE!, coffee, vanilla, burnt roast malts, chocolate, liquorice and soy. Huge booze flavor, heavy roasted grain, bitter coffee, bitter hops, loadas of chocolate. Finishes a biting alcohol sharpness and sweet. Thick and chewy. F’n amazing!

Bottle. Pours a black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty oaky chocolate aroma. Sweetish malty roasted oaky, licorice and chocolate flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate and licorice finish with some oaky hints.

Bottled. Pitch black coloured. Dense and light brown head. Long lasting. Roast, liqourice, chcolate, oak and alcohol notable in the nose. Flavour of vanilla, roast, sweetness, prunes, syrup and chocolate. Quite complex and smooth. Full bodied. Dry. Sweet, chocolaty and roasted end. Very well hidden alcohol. Nice.