UPDATED: JAN 8, 2022 Pours cola brown with an aroma of coffee, roasted malt, chocolate, and currant. Flavorful with coffee, dark chocolate, and hints of blueberry and currant.

UPDATED: DEC 17, 2021 650ml bottle from Appalachian Vintner, shared with bananabi11. Never looked for a bottle date, so unsure of age. Almost black pour with a brown head. Aroma has sweet and roasted malts, chocolate, and vanilla bean. Somewhat earthy. Taste is of sweet and roasted malts in a nice meld, chocolate, some coffee, a bit of smoke, and some dark fruit. Fairly complex and fairly deep. Medium to full bodied, there is a bit of an alcohol presence. Finishes leaning slightly to the sweet side of bittersweet, but the roast held up well. 15.4

UPDATED: JUL 2, 2020 Dark black purple with a thin brown head of cream. Aroma is rich and a touch sour. Flavors are dark fruit, chocolate, no alcohol until the finish. 7/3/8/4/18

UPDATED: JUN 7, 2020 deep black with a light burn and roast chocolate bar and alcohol brew. moderate body and thick head. perhaps some coffee. satisfying not complex a more simple winner.

UPDATED: APR 15, 2020 Pours black with a small, dense, lingering head. The aroma of coffee, roast malt, and chocolate. Taste is similar and pretty sweet but not overly so. Full bodied. Excellent.

UPDATED: APR 15, 2020 Dark brown-black mahagony in colour. Lots of dark chocolate notes, toffee, roasted malts, pithy orange peel and dark red fruits. Relatively smooth and a bit slick, sweet and semi bitter. Long lasting on the finish with roasty malt notes.

UPDATED: MAR 29, 2020 Draft. Black beer with a brown head. Chocolate and marshmallow aroma with light rost. Chocolate and caramel flavor with toffee. Medium bodied. Chocolate and caramel linger with light coffee.

UPDATED: FEB 21, 2020 Sweet chocolate, some berries, very light, pitch black, sweet, chocolate, not very easy going, thick and sugary, caramel

UPDATED: FEB 10, 2020 500ml bottle from Windsor Hy-Vee, in a Sam Smith pint glass. Really nicely mingled aromas of finished oak, milk chocolate, medium-roast coffee, malted milk balls and caramel with hints of candied fruit and forest floor. Pours oily black with three fingers of dense, creamy chocolate head that laces really extravagantly. Creamy, sweet and malty up to start things off with roast and subtle bitter chocolate taking over mid-palate, with a long malty and roasty finish with a little heat from the 10.0% ABV hitting bottom. Full-bodied but surprisingly easy to drink. A little bit of bitter chocolate astringency at the back of the throat after the finish. Really good! Great aromatics, looks amazing and surprisingly easy drinking for an imperial, without even having to adulterate it with vanilla beans. The best of the 3 Grimm brews I've had to date. Cheers!

UPDATED: DEC 27, 2019
Bottle @ MBCC '19 [ Green Session ]. - Mikkeller Beer Copenhagen Celebration 2019, Øksnehallen, Halmtorvet 11, 1700 København V, Danmark.

[ As Grimm Double Negative ].
ABV: 10.0%. Clear dark black brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, dark malt, sweet malt, meat - wood - smoke - earthy. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, meat, dark malt, sweet malt, chocolate - coffee - roasted, wood, dark fruit. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is warming. [20190511]
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