UPDATED: FEB 15, 2020 12 oz bottle. (Arcadia Ales) Kalamazoo, MI. NISBWG20. Dark brown color with a small light tan head. Licorice, roasted malt, cough syrup, some sweetness and a hint of saltiness in the aroma. The flavor is roasted malt, licorice, cough syrup, some dryness and mild molasses. Some hints of aging. Bought 4 years ago.

UPDATED: FEB 15, 2020 355 ml bottle @ NISBWG. Pours dark red-brown color with a small off-white head. Roasted malty aroma, cocoa, chocolate, subtle hop notes and rye, faint oats too. Flavor is also roasted malty and bitter, chocolaty, cocoa tones, some grain and oats. Nice and roasty IS, maybe some effects of age here too. 3525

UPDATED: FEB 15, 2020 35,5 cl bottle @ NISBWG ’20 Aroma has salty licorice and chocolate. Flavour has herbal tones, salty licorice and malty notes. Salty but balanced.

UPDATED: NOV 27, 2019 It pours very dark brown with a brown head. Head retention is low. It has aromas of roast and dark fruits. There dark fruits is like prunes and plums. There are some coffee notes in the background. The flavors are a combination of roast, coffee, plums, and prunes. There are some cocoa elements in the background with some black licorice. It has a full, not quite chewy body. The cocoa and licorice are more pronounced in the finished. Overall, a complex combination of malt flavors and dark fruits.

12oz bottle pours out black topped with a tan head. Nose is chocolate ash tray notes pit fruit notes. Taste is more of the nice sweet malts chocolate ash and some dark fruit notes.

On tap at Arcadia. Interesting. The bitter hops make it more bitter and make the body feel lighter to me. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Aroma is chocolate, dark malts and mild dark fruit/tobacco. The flavor is dark malts, chocolate, dark fruit/cherries, mild tobacco and a mix of acidity and slight sweetness in the finish.

Bottled, 2016 vintage. Pours black, tan head. Aroma is lots of roasted malt, some chocolate, a little thin maybe for the abv. Very roasty. Flavor is heavy roasted malt, dark chocolate, coffee bitterness, spot of plum. Again, body is a little thin, perhaps overcarbed. It’s fine, but it really doesn’t stand out to me in any way.

Black pour with a thin light tan head and light sticky lacing .... aroma of roasted malts, coffee, dark fruits, light molasses and caramel malts ..... taste is of dark fruits (plums), roasted malts, coffee and caramel malts and some dry bitter cocoa .... dry and bitter finish with dark fruits, roasted malts and chocolate .... solid and tasty with a slick and oily mouthfeel and decent body .... decent brew

Quite excellent...in every way. One of the better Imperial Stouts I’ve had so far this season. Black as night and sweet smokey taste...thick mouthfeel...overall enjoyable though quite unexpected.