I initally started drinking the beer fresh out of the fridge. Bad move as I've come to learn with stouts that have real flavor. I didn't start finding the beer tasty UNTIL it had been sitting out for a half an hour. That's when a started notiving the choco nuances( I hate that word). The beer wasn't exactly dark like oil. When putting it to the lamp, quite a bit of light got through. But it was still darker than a porter, or a dark porter. I Haven't had a bad scottish beer yet,especially those that are WEE heavy. This was not,but it was still damn good at a little less than room temperature.
