First sip is thick like a brick. It is sweet with chocolate and oak and definitely has hints of (but no actual) coffee. It is managing to be both too sweet and too bitter at the same time, and that really does take an artist - a masochistic artist, but an artist nonetheless. A full swig will deal with this "art" thing.
Tip-in is bitter in the middle with sweet around the sides. Chocolate is in front with oak and licorice backing its play. The middle come along with an intensifying sweetness that is joined by earth and coffee (it is not a great combo). The finish rounds things off with the sweetness turning bitter as the alcohol jumps up and screams, "HEY! Look at me!" And there is no ignoring that wet, fibrous alcohol slap.
Bottom Line: Unbalanced and unhinged, this might be a good beer in the proper hands.
2.0/5