Always Always Room For Dessert
Triptych Brewing

This is a really sweet and rich stout. I will admit that a 12oz bottle is hard to do by yourself, but this beer is really delicious. Pastry forward with a lighter barrel presence. Triptych as usual hides the ABV well. Thinner mouthfeel than most pastry offerings.

A: Pours an opaque black color. A small tan head tries to rise but recedes in an instant. Impressive opaqueness, and fairly standard for a big imperial stout like this.
S: Really busy with lots going on in the nose. Wood, vanilla, barrel character, with some toasted and toffee like malts. That melds into all the additives. Very dessert like for sure, and an odd potpourri kind of aroma. None of which is bad by any means, just a bit of...too much.
T: Oh, this is like candy. Some wood, vanilla and barrel character again. Though all of the sugars just mingle into one, and I can't really pick anything out. I mean, I can't even tell there is any coffee flavor at all...either from the malts or the additives, so yeah, too much. This is just alcoholic dessert, with sugar for days.
M/O: A full thick, sticky, viscous body. Which is par for the course with this style. Though it also seems really under carbonated, almost flat to me. Maybe I haven't had one of these big "pastry stouts" in a while and this is more the norm, but regardless wanting at least a little more carbonation. Big and hot alcohol burn, that becomes almost ethanol like. Certainly a slow sipper, but one I enjoyed less and less as I tried to work through it.

When more reviews for this come in, it will be apparent I'm more in the minority with this. Though it became too much for me the more and more I drank it. On a side note, I have been drinking a cask strength rye whiskey lately that I love, which seems to me to have less alcohol burn than this...so I'll probably reach for something like that instead of this kind of stout again.