UPDATED: JUL 18, 2020 Bottle 500ml @ yngwie
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, alcohol and caramel. Taste is medium to heavy sweet and light bitter with a long warm, chocolate and caramel finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

UPDATED: JUN 27, 2020 Super deep dark brown coloured body with a very thick, four to five centimetre tall rich brown heaad that stays afloat for a long time - actually looks quite nice. Aroma of anise, deep roasted malts, caramelised sugars, vanilla, bunches of chocolate and a ton of alcohol and bourbon notes that hit very hard. Full-bodied; Super strong rich chocolate, anise, licorice and especially alcohol/boozy notes that share a lot of flavours, but a ton of complexity and even more pungency and astringency, all with a bunch of sugars still - mainly lactose and caramelised sugars. Aftertaste is rich, very robust and full of bourbon and strong alcohol notes with the anise and licorice very strong throughout and some lactose and super roasted/burnt malt shows through everything. Overall, a very strong and incredibly pungent imperial stout with a lot of deep boozy notes, quite a bit of chocolate and caramelised sugars, but way more lactose, anise and licorice notes than anything else - pungent throughout and perhaps could be a good beer in a few years time, but now it's too raw on the edges and pungent. Good to try, at least, and while I wasn't going to bring this bottle back in my suitcase, it does need a few years to settle in the bottle. I sampled this 50 cL bottle in box, purchased from Smith's Liqour Gallery in Rapid City, South Dakota on 25-June-2020 for US$13,59 sampled in my hotel room here in Sundance, Wyoming a day later on 26-June-2020. This bottle was almost the last of the run, as Barrel #31 of #31 and Bottle #357 of #413.

UPDATED: FEB 21, 2020 Pours black with a tan head. Aroma is roast, caramel and light hops. Taste is caramel and fig, moving to roast and hops. Finish is fig, caramel and roast.

UPDATED: JAN 18, 2020 Bottle, 12.8% at Beershoppen. Weak vinous aroma, sweet liquorice. Black colour. No head. The flavour has a little marshmallow to begin with, turning roasted with a good coffee bitterness. Quite syrupy.

UPDATED: DEC 18, 2019
Bottle 1pt 0.9fl.oz. @ [ Tasting ] - fonefan & Brugmansia House.

[ As Rogue Ales Rolling Thunder Imperial Stout - 2019 ].
ABV: 12.8%. Bottle #37/416. Clear dark black brown colour with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, dark malt, chocolate, coffee, dried fruit, licorice, light molasses. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, licorice, dried fruit, dark malt. Body is medium to full, texture is creamy - smooth, carbonation is soft, finish feel is warming and light alcoholic. [20191130]
8-4-9-4-17

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UPDATED: OCT 18, 2019 Bottled 500ml. -from Goblet Zagreb, shared with Marko and hrabren. Barrel 6/31 bottle 367/413. Black coloured, medium sized brownish head, wood and alcohol in the nose. Roasted malt, chocolate, noticable whisky barrel, some alcohol and notes of dried fruits in the finish.

UPDATED: OCT 16, 2019 Bottle (barrel 6 of 31, bottle 367 of 413). Pitch black with a tiny off white head. Fairly subtle aroma, raisins, toasty notes, tannins from the wood, alcohol. Chocolate notes, nutty, tannins, alcohol, ending nicely roasty, bitterish and slightly lean. A very good BA RIS, not spectacular, but does its job well.

UPDATED: OCT 14, 2019 0.5 l bottle at Goblet Beer Store, Zagreb. Shared with Marko and Ogi. Oily jet black, small brown head. Aroma is lots of barrel, wood, bourbon soaked fruit, blackberry. Roasty, alcohol. Very thick and sticky. Intense roasty, charred wood, dark fruit. Very potent and strong. Bourbon, Southern Comfort. Full body. Dry finish. Rich. Nice.

UPDATED: SEP 13, 2019 Bottle. A dark brown to black beer with a minimal sized beige head. Roasted malts, coffee, some dark dried fruits, alcohol and a touch of cellar in the aroma. It's full bodied, warming, soft and smooth with flavors of roasted malts, coffee, cocoa, alcohol and a light spiced, herbal hint. Lasting finish. Intense but nice. 190913