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The final imperial stout, it's all come down to this.

Given the way it's bottled and presented, I personally think it looks like it has had blood, sweat and tears devoted to it. With its carefully designed business card like label attached with a piece of string. Together with the bottles opening mechanism that looks worn it certainly looks a part; this bottle feels important and the writing only tells you part of the story:

"Aged on French Oak, with hints of vanilla and rasins."

As I opened the bottle carefully it let out a slight hiss and I began pouring. The colour and taste is like liquid gold, its beautiful.

Due to the age of the imperial stout, it's barely, just barely carbonated, with the ever so slightest hint. Its as if the absence of the carbonation allowed me to appreciate it even more. It was drunken with the appreciation of a fine wine.

This stout is by far the best of the imperial stouts that i've sampled over the past couple of weeks, and i'm not just saying that because it's the last one, or because it's the one that the brewer made himself. It's a genuine remark, it just has this exquisite quality to it that really love.

This stout has made me very happy :D

TB Imperial Stout - 12.8%, Unknown cost to develop.