Bottle @home (rating backlog). Pours black, opaque, tan head. Nose is chocolate, dark chocolate, whisky, slight coconut and coffee, slight woody notes. Taste is roasted malts, vanilla, slightly sweet, dark chocolate, slight whisky, wonderful.

9/VII/17 - 33cl bottle from a trip to London long time ago @ home - BB: 31/VIII/15 (2017-987)

Slow gusher alert!
Clear dark brown beer, big fizzy aery thick beige to brown head, pretty stable, non adhesive. Aroma: roasted, bit sourish, vinegar touch, red wine notes, some vanilla, caramel. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: lots of chocolate, very roasted, soft bitterness, quite some coffee, bit of vanilla, bit sourish. Aftertaste: caramel, sweet, chocolate, pretty bitter, some ashes, bit fruity, some alcohol, liquorish.

Bottle @ Bishops Arms Savoy, Malmö. Black with a lasting light brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, wood and bourbon. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish with a little warming alcohol. 190815

Bouteille. Robe noire. Nez de café frais, de grain torréfié et de bois avec une pointe d’alcool. Bouche crémeuse où s’harmonise les notes du nez et les saveurs douces du caramel et de la vanille. Finale sèche , terreuse et marquée par le fut de bourbon. Une légère acidité vient clore la dégustation. Une stout barrel age qui s’exprime pleinement mais sans brutalité.

How: Bottle.
Where: The Flying Elk, Stockholm.
Appearance: Black colour with an off-white head.
Aroma: Malt, chocolate, some alcohol, wood, some bourbon.
Body: Medium body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Chocolate, some vanilla, wood, bourbon, caramel.

330ml bottle from favourite beer, Cheltenham. Deep black colour with no head. Aroma has stewed fruit, chocolate, and a touch off coffee. Bitter burnt aftertaste.

Bottle at home. My lords. Black with a red hint through the light. Dark brown head that soon cleared. Aroma of smoke and burnt metal, coffee beans. Hints of coffee, beef, dark caramel malts. Semi carbonated, lively at first but then settled. Georgous.

Bottle @ blackfriars glasgow Aroma is pepper and dry malt taste is bitter dry with dark chocolate overall a very different stout

Pitch black color. Thin dark brown head. I love the unique Buffalo Trace bourbon in the nose, i wish more breweries used these barrels. Intense molasses, rich velvety dark chocolate, licorice and charcoal notes. Slightly salty. Very low carbonation. In fact too low to the point of being next to flat. Really loses points on the mouth feel. Slightly sweet. Mouth is much more linear than the nose with lots of bourbon, dark chocolate and lactose notes. Finishes mildly sweet with bourbon and dark chocolate with lactose notes, but a bit lifeless. So much potential.

330ml bottle. pours very dark brown/black with thin, quite dark head. aroma is bitter coffee, musty old books, smoke and a little alcohol. quite smooth mouth feel with lots of coffee and a bit of oaky smoke. leaves a warming alcoholic feel.