Kinz (2179), Glen Allen, Virginia, USA Apr 5, 2008 Draft at Cap Ale House, post 10k recovery beer. Pours black with a creamy tan head, very nice. Aroma is a great blend of coffee accented malts and dark fruits. Flavor is an almost exact match, but just exquisitely balanced, luscious, and full. This is absolutely fantastic, an amazingly good beer. ucfknightscott (46), Casselberry, Florida, USA Oct 26, 2009 One of my favorite styles. Pours a beautiful inky black with a medium brown, creamy head. Aroma is big and complex. I detect notes of raisin, dark fruits, coffee, caramel, and milk chocolate. Drinks very smooth for the high abv. Coffee and sweet fruits dominate the palate. This is a beautiful beer. Very delicous. This is one will be one of my new favorites. Highly recommended. imadeadguy (378), back in NJ!, New Jersey, USA Feb 17, 2008 Wow! poured jet black with a nice tan frothy head. Notes of coffee,mocha,and roasted malt. Coats your mouth and is very drinkable. Much better then Victorys baltic imo. mike67 (73), , New Jersey, USA Oct 23, 2009 22 oz bottle. Pours black with a thick, brown, long lasting head. The aroma is chocolate malt, dark fruit and brown sugar. Full body, some tartness. The flavor is chocolate, coffee, dark fruit. Fruity sweetness nicely balanced with coffee bitterness. Finish is enormous, long lasting and very balanced. Simply great! Rustyham (545), miami, Florida, USA Aug 8, 2009 Toast, Roasty, Poasty, Coasty. Thick and an extremely long lasting flavor. Bitter as all hell. Bottle at Sunset Corners, Miami. PapaSkeetSkeet (65), , Massachusetts, USA Sep 29, 2009 Wow, this was one hell of a brew. In my memory this serves as the definitive example of a perfect head, color, and lacing in a beer. A rich dark brown head I don’t see very often. Aroma is of intense chocolate and coffee. The flavor also tastes of these two wonderful dark roasts along with additional maltiness and sweetness. I will have it again, and the rating may even get bumped up (Flavor 10/10???) LooseCannon (914), Norfolk, Virginia, USA May 10, 2008 22oz bottle. Pours pitch black in color with full brown head. Aroma sweet, dark chocolate and coffee. Taste dark chocolate and roasted coffee with dark chocolate bitter finish. nearbeer (1833), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA Aug 16, 2008 650 ml, early 2008 vintage. Opaque with a quarter inch of sticky, lasting head. Nose is molasses, chocolate, raisin and coffee. Flavor is chocolate, caramel, espresso, raisins, split and dried hickory. Some hickory, oak, whiskey, vanilla and anise in the aftertaste. Medium-heavy body is balanced well between the syrupy and the dry, but a little too bubbly. Excellent beer.
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