Rare find- a Belgian mild stout! As wood-burnt molasses malting subsides, chocolate-roasted prune-soured fig-dried cola-hazelnut ascension reinforces whiskey-soaked lactose-maltose creaminess. After settling, overripe banana and vanilla illusions gain strength. Earthen herbal bottom usurps brittle bourbon buzz, bruised orange lick, and mildly peppered nutmeg spicing of 8.5% alcohol elixir.

Beautiful cascading bubbles surge from mahogany body to tan head, creating visual pleasure deplorable hop-grained acridity ruins. Disappointingly, pungent oak-dried cherry sourness and ester-y white grape pucker form acidic demeanor further burdened by burnt coffee smear.

Unassuming soft-bodied black velvet dry stout segues from subtle smoked nuttiness to light toasted hop bitterness, but sedate carbonation and lack of proper chocolate malting undo any creamy significance.

Forceful Starbuck’s-like dark roasted coffee strength fortifies milky brown chocolate richness, mild cappuccino-espresso stint, and creamy vanilla resiliency coarsened by earthen hazelnut-walnut sash. Though pallid cola hue seems strangely light for robust style, its silken lactose flow secures mocha java, vanilla bean, chicory, and pipe tobacco illusions of moderate Irish dry stout.

Thick ebony-hued full body offers adequate black coffee bittering and dark chocolate creaminess. Nutty bottom sharpens woodsy hop char.