7.8

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Tap at The Grand Delancey. Huge coffee punch, intense maple notes and a touch of smoke that might be the bacon but it might be coming from the maple as well. Creamy, a bit thin bodied with soft carbo.

8

Waffles and bacon.

8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Deep dark brown coloured body with a nice, fairly rich three to four centimetre tall lighter brown body that stays afloat for a few seconds and then somehow fades to just about nothing after a minute or so, not leaving a trace on top at all. Aroma of rich smoked notes with bacon, pork and soy sauce all noticeable, along with a good deal of roasted malts, some caramel, a bunch of vanilla, lactose and coffee and finishing with some dry and burnt chocolate components here - very strong in the nose. Medium to Full-bodied; Very rich, creamy, but deep profile that shows the smoked notes, some soy sauce and umami flavours with a lot of caramelised sugars, toffee, earth and rustic finishes with some dryness, but more associated with the yeast and alcohol that is picked up very strongly at the finish. Aftertaste shows a lot of bitterness, from the malts to some very light hops and even with the yeast and pungent lactose that comes through at the tail end makes this robust and deep throughout. Overall, a nice and deep, fairly pungent, but strongly flavourful and complex beer with a lot of notes across the spectrum, from the smoke to the sweetness and finishing with a dry and bitter quality, but the underlying character and complexity reigns supreme here in a good way. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Total Wine in Laurel, Maryland on 20-July-2022 for US$2,79 sampled at my house here in Washington on 12-November-2022 as it starts to get slightly chilly for the first day here in the season.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Panda 🐼 at home thanks to Wingman. A clear nut brown coloured pour with a whispy tan head. Aroma is wintergreen, maple, brown sugars, jammy fruits, sticky sugars. Flavour isc omposed of semi sweet, woody maple, wintergreen, jammy fruits, varnish, brown sugars, nutty roast. Palate is medium sweet, oily, moderate carbonation. Quite unusual.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Panda at home, thanks to the Wingmane, 10/06/22. Extremely dark mahogany brown to light black with a tan head that veers to the edge. Nose is chocolate, vanilla, maple syrup, molasses, dark malts, fruit rinds. Taste comprises chocolate, maple syrup on pancakes, light smoked notes, coffee, roast malts, brown sugar melt. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, light drying close. Mot bad.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Sample from the can at Tide's Residence, Helsinki. Color is dark brown with small head. Aromas and flavours: Grease, chocolate, some coffee and roasted malts. Heavy.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

16oz can thanks to Steve. Pours out black topped with a tan head. Nose is big coffee maple syrup chocolate sweetness. Taste is more of the maple syrup chocolate sweetness roast malts and a nice end.

7.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draft. Pretty much black color, brown head. Aroma of earthy coffee grounds, mixed spice. Taste starts with sweet coffee, light cocoa, cinnamon. Tasty.

6.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Tap. Pours clear black, small tan head, decent lacing. Aroma is coffee and cinnamon, maple, bit of chicory. Flavor is light plus sweet, light bitter. Lightish body. Interesting, a bit over spiced.