Evil Twin Lil' B

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

April 2018: 355 ml bottle, Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 11.5%. Pitch black colour, small tan head. Aroma of roast malts, chocolate, molasses and oak, a hint of whiskey. The flavour is fairly sweet, with loads of molasses and chocolate, also roast malts, oak and whiskey. Moderate bitterness.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

Taps rich coffee sable with a fair tan head. Aroma delivers roast malt, coffee, and barleywine-like fruity tones. Flavor presents roast malt, coffee, woody, fruity, and subtle semi-sweet chocolate notes. Body is firm, fizz is OK. Get a lil’ B in your tummy.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

Pours black with next to no head or lace. Everything gets better after that. Aroma is chocolate, licorice and fruity. Flavours are robust and complex. Dark chocolate, prunes, raisins licorice and molasses. Other slightly lesser flavours are vanilla, leather and smoke. Oily smooth, sticky thickness covers the palate. Alcohol is more noticeable towards the end. Very enjoyable

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

12 oz bottle about a year old. Pours black with a small dark brown head that retains well and leaves some lacing.

The aroma is sweet roasted chocolate malts with some dark fruit.

The flavor is sweet roasted chocolate malts and dark fruit with a medium bitter roast finish that is slightly ashy. The mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with smooth low carbonation.

Overall, a nice dessert beer. I like the balance of sweet and roast and the alcohol is well hidden with some late warming. This is better than remembered after some aging.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

On tap @ 10 East -

There is nothing "lil" about this huge monster of a beer. It slaps you upside your head it's so amazing. Waves of flavor and aroma attack your senses in the most pleasing way. My only nitpick with this is...impy porter...impy stout? There's no way I could tell which it was if tasting this blind. A little sludgy and it's absolutely wonderful because of it.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

Ref tinged brown-blackness in color. A three fingered sudsy brown head rises briefly above. Lacing is a thin ringlet. Intense nose and tasting with phenolic notes. Licorice, roasty, brown sugar and dark fruit figs in the profile. Thick and slick on the tongue

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

More so than most beers, I can side by side compare this to another. The best part? That "other" beer? Black butte 24! This porter is huge all around. Bitter, sweet, complex. Roasted malts, licorice, loads of chocolate, figgy sweetness, coffee. Maybe a touch more bitter bite than BB, but quite similar. And tasty.