Certainly the thickest beer I can remember drinking. There's a lot going on in this. First of all it's very sweet, almost syrupy. Strong roasted, malt flavors with more tamed licorice ones. Could not really taste the smoked barley though.

So thick and pungently sweet, a stout in the mold of a World Wide or maybe a non-barrel aged Berserker. Lots of molasses and spice: the anise there as a hint, the cinnamon more explicit. It's really good, but so in-your-face that some aging would probably much improve this.