Mikkeller Black Hole

Best by 1/14/14 we just barely get this one in under the wire. Another Mikkeller offering, once again a Junk promise made true by a visit. Black Hole pours a non-particulate black with no head whatsoever. Aroma is blazing raisin. Palate runs across a cloying smokiness plus roasted coffee with burnt malt or toast. The 13.1%abv is not as noticeable as one would think. The boys at Mikkeller have well hidden it in a green bottle of all things!! Look, this beast is currently a 100 on ratebeer.com and part of the original barrel series where Mikkeller did nothing but STOUTS aged in/on anything. Inspires me to age Reinke's on my compression socks after a 1/2 marathon full of some Caribou coffee, Zeus hops and Bermuda grass from the back yard and call it Black Sole. Yeah...that was funny.