8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle from an IP trade (through the other site) in NYC, 2017. The green bowlingball on the label indicates this is a 2015 bottle. Pours a pitch black colour and a light beige head that quickly recedes. Aroma's: sweet, syrup, light coffee and roast, vanilla, light boozy. Retronasal there's clearly coconut, bourbon, vanilla, syruppy sweetness, light roast. Flavour is heavy sweet, milk chocolate, light bourbon. Full bodied, (blubberdikker jetser), which hides the high ABV well. Long finish. Sweet but nice.

8.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Crowler from Holiday Market. Pours a pitch black with a small brown head that dissipates. Big bourbony, oaky nose with fudge brownie, chocolate, kit-kat and coconut aromas. Coconut, chocolate and cacao nib on the palate. Boozy for sure but not as sweet as I remember older vintages being. Lingering coconut, bourbon and milk cacao nib.

8.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Bottle. Pours dark reddish brown/black with a medium creamy light brown head. Aromas of coconut, vanilla, dark fruits, milk chocolate, brown sugar. Taste is milky chocolate, huge vanilla, bourbon, fudge, coconut, caramel, dark fruits. Faaaawk

8

4.1

8

Kokos. Migaly. Teamslodyczka. Kawy i czeko jakos niewiele. Lepki. Ciut syropowy. Jakies maslo orzechowe jakby? Robi wrazenie

7.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

At Hopishop 2017. Aroma of chocolate, coconut, cacao and some sweet roasted malt. Taste has chocolate, earthy coconut, cacao powder, vanilla, cream and sweet-ish roasted malt. Nice and flavorful, but somehow I expected even more from it.

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6.5

Bourbon barrel aged coconut porter of unusual strength even for an imperial one. Medium thick, lightly lacing, yellowish beige head, very dark burgundy brown robe, approaching black. Aroma of coconut candy, toffee, dried figs, molten chocolate, treacle, brown sugar, candied dates, brown rum but also a very unpleasant slurry pit-like odour - this clearly harbours sone kind of infection, sadly. Sweet onset, candied figs topped with treacle, light sourish and umami accents. Lots of residual brown sugar and big coconut flavourings penetrate a sweet caramelly and chocolatey malt body; Bounty candy- and even marzipan-like notes linger with some hoppy spiciness and the obvious rum-like booze, yet the latter manages to behave surprisingly decent - I would never have suspected such a towering ABV in this. A lovely idea - accentuating the (admittedly largely arbitrary) distinction between imperial stout and imperial porter with extra sugar and coconut sweetness. Would have been a fantastic dessert beer if it weren't for that off-putting slurry pit-like aspect in the nose, which prevents me from granting it a top score.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Poured into a wineglass showing lightly filtered caramel brown with no head. The nose shows subtle molasses and light dark chocolate. The palate is full bodied and lightly carbonated with a moderate alcoholic spiciness. Moderately sweet showing brown sugar and caramel throughout with a subtle coffee bitterness with more sweetness on the finish.