UPDATED: JAN 8, 2022 Can, 33 cl @home. Pours a black opaque with a big thick frothy light brown head. Aroma is milky chocolate and a strong scent. Taste is bitter, coffee, dark chocolate.

UPDATED: JAN 7, 2022 Can at home. Pours black color, beige head. Aroma of cocoa, coffee, vanilla, chilli, chocolate, plums. Taste is sweet, chilli, dark chocolate, cocoa, vanilla, nutmeg.

UPDATED: DEC 11, 2021 Tap, Sharkey’s Radford. Pours very dark brown, clear. Some lacing, beige head disappears fast. Aroma is subdued. Roast mainly. Taste is complex mix of things …. The ingredients are used judiciously, nothing is out of balance. Pretty darned tasty, and I rarely like high alcohol beers. Back end is sweet as expected … I assume they added lactose to balance it out (I normally dislike beers worth added lactose). Pretty good … not a beer I’ll have a second right away but tasty.

UPDATED: OCT 7, 2021 2015 Vintage on tap at Mostra 5th Anniversary. Pours black with medium beige head that lasts. The aroma is chilis, roast, green pepper. Slick body, cocoa, roast, green pepper, spice, chilis, decent.

UPDATED: SEP 5, 2021 On tap at The Drake. Rich chocolate aroma with coconut and rum notes. Humongous taste with coffee and chocolate and coconut. Sweet and bitter and delicious.

UPDATED: JUL 10, 2021 Deep amber color with a fizzy tan head. Aroma of chocolate and coffee with a hint of vanilla. Roasted malt flavor with notes of coffee, nutmeg, and chocolate. The body is nice and full and the finish is a little peppery.

UPDATED: JUL 8, 2021 35cl blik. Zwart bier met beige schuim. Geur: vanille, kokos, hout, kaneel, speculaas kruiden, nootmuskaat, peperkoek. Smaak: licht zoet maar ook bitter, kruiden, kaneel, hopbitter, harsig. Matige tot medium koolzuurprikkel. Leuk.

UPDATED: JUN 13, 2021 Pours dark, almost black, with thick caramelly creamy retentive foam over shaded textures with columns of bubbles. On top, cocoa and caramel. Up front, hot pepper and dark coffee come in strong with nutmeg and spices on the splashes. Vanilla and milk are firm on the drink with pepper and straw that echoes the devastating cinnamon taste in the back of the throat. Body is round, easy to drink. Aftertaste is pasty, festive and long lasting. So many flavors!

UPDATED: JUN 3, 2021 Black with a dark mocha head. Aroma of roast, chocolate and hot sauce. Further aroma is nutmeg and something I can't quite place but that reminds me of Christmas drinks.. maybe allspice? Taste has the same note, but it comes out more like ginger snap cookies. Roast, chocolate, warm alcohol in stomach. Very different. Good dessert beer

UPDATED: APR 30, 2021 Poirs pitch black with an aggressive top, beoge colored. Aroma is superb - cinnamon, coffee, chocholate, caramel, vanilla, nutty scent in the back. Just - wow. Taste is very full and intensive, pronounced carbonation gives a strong kick. A bit flatter beer would be better with these flavours and body. Nevertheless, a full-bodied, very well balanced between coffee and bitter finish. The bitterness takes over at the end but it is a super Imperial Stout.