This beer pours brown but comes up a dark amber in the light, with a beautiful cream head. This is one of those beers that's listed at turns as a Double IPA or an Imperial IPA and in some cases it's more or less interchangeable. In this case I feel it's an IIPA right off the bat - dark fruits and malts come to the fore in the aroma and it's clear you're in for a treat.
Taste-wise this beer delivers the same imperial flavours but without too much fruit. Instead, there's a truly delicious edge of toasty coffee that comes through in its place and smooths this out beautifully. Lovely fluid mouthfeel to this beer gives it a really refined character despite its 9.5% punch. Even puts me in mind of cigars in places.
I found this really rather excellent and recommend you try it post-haste. Pay whatever is required my good man, money is no object. 9.0
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