Pecan, chocolate caramel malt and fresh hay aroma. Cloudy dark brown with small light brown head. Moderately sweet pecan, caramel malt, and mildly bitter fresh hay and alcohol flavor. Body light for the style. Nice flavor but very light for a quad.

I’ve lost track of how long I have had 10 put away, a year maybe 2. And I bought it where, who knows. But beer is meant to be consumed and this pleasant, early summer Saturday evening is the time. I use a chalice, why the hell not? And it is a great cap on the 750 ml bottle too I should add. I see a medium brown liquid and a practically nonexistent beige head. The scent, cut hay, sorghum, cane sugar and malt. Whew, where do we go from here. Oh yeah, the taste. Decent, malt, toffee, very ripe black plum, grain. Rather quadruplish, just not at a top level.

Bottle - pours caramel brown head - nose/taste of pecan, sweet nuts, caramel malt - medium body

Rich deep dark brown coloured body with a thick, dense, four centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of pecans, nuts, earth, malt, a bit of coffee and even some squash. Medium to Full-bodied; Strong nutty flavour with a big grain flavour right afterwards, some good sweetness from brown sugar and caramel with a little earthy finish. Aftertaste shows a good deal of alcohol, some nice rich squash flavours, but all together a bunch of nuts and caramel sweetness - as expected. Overall, a very nice rich beer with a lot of sugars and somehow - even more nuttiness. Good to sample, and although it was strong and in a large format bottle, it was still nice to sample! I sampled this 75 cL bottle purchased from Total Wine in Alexandria, Virginia on 17-May-2015 for US$12,48 sampled in my hotel room in Luray, Virginia on 19-September-2015 after spending a day in the mountains.

Keg at World of Beer Charlottesville. Clear dark orange, thin fizzy tan head, good retention. Aroma of bubblegum, caramel, toffee, cherry. The taste is caramel, toffee, anise, cherry. Medium bodied, low carbonation.

From a 75 cl bottle shared at home. Pours a hazy mahogany with a thick ecru head. Aroma of toasted nuts. Flavors of smoky tart dark fruits.

750ml bottle pours a murky brown with some cloudy, off white head. Nose has almond skins and brown sugar, yeast, malt. Flavor has slick oily nut, brown sugar, lightly cakey, candy sugar. Full bodied, sticky finish.