Nice chocolate aroma along with some roasted malts. Taste has much of the same. Starts out with a good amount of sweet chocolate with the roasted malts showing up after with some bitterness to balance the sweetness. The body is almost medium-full and the carbonation is medium-low. They did a great job on this. I've had the imperial version which is even better and hopefully one day I'll get to try the bourbon barrel aged version. 4/5